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Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

From candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo
Date 2024-10-04 18:00 +0000
Organization the-candyden-of-code
Message-ID <slrnvg0aqp.32lfg.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> (permalink)
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186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote at 03:03 this Friday (GMT):
> On 10/2/24 11:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 22:25:27 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10/2/24 6:32 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:07:15 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> GNU/Linux has had 64-bit time for many years already.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's not just HAVING 64/128-bit vars. Gotta look at every function,
>>>>> every line.
>>>>
>>>> Or, you know, you define a type named “time_t”, which can be specified
>>>> to be 32 bits or 64 bits depending on the target architecture build,
>>>> and use that type wherever appropriate. Then you don’t have to worry
>>>> about it any more.
>>>
>>> Ummm ... don't think it's that easy.
>> 
>> It is.
>> 
>> Think of the huge amount of open-source software that successfully
>> compiles, and runs, on Linux running under both 32-bit and 64-bit
>> architectures. Both big- and little-endian, even.
>> 
>> POSIX figured this out decades ago.
>
>
>    But programmers with deadlines don't always FOLLOW
>    that stuff .....


Yeah, I'm also somewhat bad with following POSIX standards..
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Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-02 00:07 -0400
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-10-02 09:49 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-02 22:12 -0400
  Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-02 22:32 +0000
    Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-02 22:25 -0400
      Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-03 03:52 +0000
        Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> - 2024-10-03 23:03 -0400
          Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-10-04 18:00 +0000
            Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Cy DeMillion <cyde@loozers.net> - 2024-10-04 18:40 +0000
              Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-10-04 20:18 -0400
                Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-05 11:24 -0400
                Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo % <present@qmail.net> - 2024-10-08 13:50 -0400
          Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-04 20:51 +0000
            Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2024-10-05 11:17 -0400

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