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From: snoopy@doghouse.UUCP
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Subject: Re: UNIX-WIZARDS Digest  V3#065
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 15:28:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 15:28:10 1987
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In article <4515@brl-adm.ARPA> black@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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