Re: RFC 99 (v2) Standardize ALL Perl platforms on UNIX epoch

[Alan Burlison]

Chris Nandor wrote:

> Interesting.  I still think we should have our own real 64-bit time,
> though, since not all platforms will be 64 bit (although by 2020 they may
> be), and perhaps not all of them will be LP64 (and I confess to not know
> what that stands for :).

Simple - LP64 = 'Longs and Pointers are 64 bit'.  There are several
other alternatives too, although most everyone seems to have settled on
LP64.  See the paper at
http://www.unix-systems.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

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Alan Burlison
Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems