Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I completely agree with Junio's sentiment here. The overflow handling > needs to exist no matter what, but let's remember what's common and what > isn't. > > Since it's not common to be towards the end of even just the 32-bit > range, let's "optimize" for that and store the fields as 32 bits wide. Thanks. I realize I wasn't clear but that is what I meant. If we need to deal with overflowing situation sensibly anyway, there may not be much advantage in using 64-bit until year 2038.
