[Ntp] Re: [EXT] Re: Re: [EXT] [EXT] Re: New Liaison Statement, "LS on SG17 agreement on XSTP.epoch"

[Danny Mayer <[e-mail]>]

Yes. Now you have to do that for all O/S's and compilers. We do that 
during the autoconfigure process for the ntp reference implementation.

Danny

On 7/28/26 1:49 AM, Windl, Ulrich wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I had used this little C program to test:
>
>> cat timesize.c
> #include <time.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>          printf("size of time_t is %lu bytes\n", sizeof(time_t));
> }
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Ulrich Windl
>
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>> On 7/27/26 2:50 AM, Windl, Ulrich wrote:
>>> Yes, actually the size of time_t is 8 bytes, but the point is how many
>> programs assign it to a 32-bit "int", or use time calculations like that still.
>>
>> Actually that's incorrect. It depends on both the O/S and the compiler
>> being used and I've seen instances where time_t is only 4 bytes.
>>
>> The second part of your comment is true and I've also seen instances of
>> that.
>>
>> Danny
>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Ulrich Windl
>>>