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to: Paul Edwards
from: Michael Stapleton
date: 1996-06-23 04:08:00
subject: Re: indirection

-=> On 09 Jun 96  11:48 you wrote to me <=-

Hi Paul,

PE> I also contacted him about a bug in the ISO C standard, which
PE> even needed an explanation of a possible scenario.  (their
PE> example where they use mktime()).

MS> Details?

PE> The mktime() example shows a comparison to -1 instead of
PE> (time_t)-1, which could cause problems on certain
PE> implementations (theoretical).

I expect that it could, but I think you may need to explain the
scenario to me.  I suppose that if time_t was an extra wide integral
type then there could be problems analogous to char c = getchar().

Michael Stapleton of Graphic Bits.

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