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Subject: Re: Back-dating commits--way back--for constitution.git
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On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:32:06AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:

> >- use signed long long as our git_time_t (I think long is less system
> >dependent then long but I could be wrong)
> 
> Obviously you mean "I think long long is less system dependent than
> long".
> 
> Does any system exist where long long is not 64 bits?  In any case,
> you can future-proof it by spelling it "int64_t".  That symbol is not
> guaranteed to exist (nor is <stdint.h>), but neither is the long long
> type in the first place.

C99 specifies that "short" and "int" be at least 16 bits, that "long" be
at least 32 bits, and that "long long" be at least 64 bits. See section
5.2.4.2.1.

-Peff