Re: [Gnash-commit] gnash ChangeLog server/VirtualClock.h

[Sandro Santilli]

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;