March 6, 2013
7:13 a.m.
On Tue, 05 Mar 2013, Arthur David Olson wrote:
The code in question dates back to when "long" was the longest integer type available with all compilers ("long long" was not universal then).
Today, intmax_t is the longest integer type. Perhaps most of the longs in zic.t should be changed to intmax_t. --apb (Alan Barrett)