Nov. 8, 2011
12:14 p.m.
Zefram said:
As an aside, maybe tzfile.5 should use exact-width integer type names from C99 stdint.h, such as "int32_t" instead of "long".
One issue is that the exact-width integer types don't exist on all systems and so aren't required by C99.
I think it would make more sense to excise the C terminology in favour of file format terminology: "four-byte big-endian signed integer".
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