On 13 Sep 2000 14:22:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >I think it should be specified that the return value is seconds since Unix >epoch and the storage size be left unspecified, from the language >perspective. On those platforms that support it, using 64 bits is >obviously a good idea. 64 bits is a good idea on any platform. The processors can handle it, even if they're not 64 bit processors. One problem is: can your C compiler handle it? Now, on those platforms without 64 bit support, a double float has a lot more mantissa bits than 32, typically 50-something (on a total of 64 bits). This means that all integers with up to more than 50 significant bits can exactly be represented. That would be a lot better than the current situation of 32 bits. -- Bart.
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- Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL P... Russ Allbery
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- Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoc... Nathan Wiger
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- Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on ... Nathan Wiger
- Re: RFC 99 (v3) Standardize ALL Perl platforms... Chris Nandor
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