[Asterisk-Dev] Re: ast_localtime() weird interface.

[Dinesh Nair]

On 10/13/05 00:44 Tilghman Lesher said the following:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 09:42, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>>The point is, if we use different types (such as time_t and struct
>>timeval's tv_sec), then we cannot complain because they _really_ are
>>different on a given platform.
> 
> On my given platform, they're the same size.  Why is it that a broken
> platform should trump a sane platform?  Why not fix the brokenness
> and let it be sane once again, everywhere?

i believe luigi was coming from the angle that we cant really predict how 
different operating systems' have different sizes for the same 
struct/member. it'd be better to have asterisk be platform independent in 
this regard and try to support this than otherwise.

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