Re: The numeric c types are (effectively) integral, too.

27 Mar 2013


      On 3/27/2013 12:16 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Jeff Shaw mailto:shawjef3@gmail.com> wrote:
I looked through the header files for FreeBSD's platforms, and
    time_t is always an __int32 or __int64. Maybe Linux or NetBSD can
    provide an exception.
There have been times when it was a struct made of multiple integral 
values, also.
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That's fascinating. If we're concerned with those cases in base, we 
should probably remove at least the Enum, Num, and Real instances from 
CTime, or provide special cases. I imagine Show and Read become 
nontrivial, as well.
Jeff