time_t definition

[Michael Sierchio]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Garance A Drosehn <gad at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Yes, this means that the only reliable way to printf a time_t is
> to use a cast.  That has been true for at least a decade.  It may
> be true that you happened to avoid this issue before, but the only
> *RELIABLE* platform-independent way to print time_t's is via a cast.

Especially for variadic functions like printf.  You can reasonably
assume that arithmetic expressions will automagically promote a type
to the proper size, but you (Garance) ably reinforce what we've been
trying to convey about this particular example.


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