From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-04-10T20:47:26-07:00
Subject: Re: Time upper limit

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xor (zzqzpfynevsei@mailinator.com) wrote:

> Does this mean that Ruby programs running on a 64 bit OS may fail on a
> 32 bit OS?

Not every 64 bit OS has a 64 bit time_t (the C type for time).  FreeBSD
only recently switched to a 64 bit time_t on 64 bit processors (i386
still uses a 32 bit time_t) and this is only in the -CURRENT branch.

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