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> It's also the reason Windows is plagued with 32 bit software currently in development What's wrong with 32-bit software? If you don't need more than 4GB of v
by wizzwizz4 4y ago
> It's also the reason Windows is plagued with 32 bit software currently in development
What's wrong with 32-bit software? If you don't need more than 4GB of virtual memory, you've got half the memory footprint for pointers.
- Gigachad 4y agoOne major issue is it can't handle dates any further than 2038 which is getting uncomfortably close, especially when you have to handle future dates.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoWindows doesn't use UNIX time. The SYSTEMTIME structure can go up to the year 30827. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ns-minwinbase-systemtime https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinba....
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago64-bit time_t works perfectly fine on 32-bit systems. That is completely unrelated to machine word size.