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Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog server/VirtualClock.h
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Sandro Santilli |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog server/VirtualClock.h |
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Sat, 24 May 2008 23:48:47 +0200 |
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Benjamin Wolsey wrote:
> > + mutable unsigned long int _elapsed;
> > +
>
> Why not use a boost::uint64_t for elapsed time in all clocks? I can't
> imagine that many instances of a SWF running for more than 49 days
> (usual upper limit of long unsigned on 32-bit machines), but you never
> know.
>
> Ubuntu might want their mobile UI to run for longer, and 500 million
> years is probably long enough.
The original intention was to survive in environments with no
64bit ints. Not sure it's still possible, not if we still care ..
--strk;