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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: time(0L) - history of a misconception (was Re: SCO password generator)
Message-ID: <1991May25.130519.21029@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 13:05:19 GMT
References: <1991May14.040042.15199@jpradley.jpr.com> <588@sherpa.UUCP> <383@tmcsys.UUCP>
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In article <383@tmcsys.UUCP>, lothar@tmcsys.UUCP (L. Hirschbiegel) writes:
> In article <1991May22.190908.5311@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>> The code you show won't work reliably on systems where the size of a
>> pointer is different from the size of an integer (for ex: large
>> model programs on an 8086 or 80286).

> This was posted to newsgroup "comp.UNIX.SYSV386", right??

It was *also* posted to comp.lang.c.

> Martin was referring to a "time" syscall argument mismatch under
> SCO-UNIX.  I pointed out, that it really makes no difference for the
> argument value itself.  I did NOT say this is a general rule-of-thumb
> for all kinds of cpus and all kinds of compilers?!?!

Then you should have removed comp.lang.c from the Newsgroups: line
before posting.

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