UNIX-WIZARDS Digest V3#065

[snoopy at doghouse.UUCP]

In article <4515 at brl-adm.ARPA> black at ee.UCLA.EDU (Rex Black) writes:

> [...] by use of
>some tricky (machine-dependent) bit-fiddling, one can implement
>64 bit long ints with two longs, but that flies in the face of
>the whole Unix/C philosophy.

Didn't v6 use a struct of two ints to get 32 bits for time_t?
(Before C had 'long')

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