Re: [tz] dead code in zic

On Mar 5, 10:05pm, arthurdavidolson@gmail.com (Arthur David Olson) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [tz] dead code in zic | While the code in question can surely be improved, it wasn't/isn't a no-op | on systems where both time_t's and long's were/are 32-bit entities. It might not have been when zic_t was a time_t (if it ever was), but it is a no-op now because zic_t is int_fast64_t. If time_t is 32 or 64 is not relevant to the particular comparison. | The code in question dates back to when "long" was the longest integer type | available with all compilers ("long long" was not universal then). Yes, but things have changed and the code can be made more portable and work better across a wider set of platforms. christos