Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "In 2038 Every Legacy Linux u0026 BSD System Breaks" video.

  1. It'll probably just mean your timestamps will all be wrong after that date.
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  2.  @notuxnobux  Yep, and they've had that solution for decades. I don't like all of POSIX, but that's definitely a good part.
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  3.  @gregf9160  Except that a lot of hardware could easily handle 64-bit integers. Back then it would've been easiest in assembly, especially with chips that had add with carry and subtract with borrow instructions. Multiplication would've been significantly harder, especially if the chip didn't have widening multipliers or narrowing dividers, but it still would've been possible with a looping add and shifting. Of course, you could always split your numbers in half, as in considering them as fixed point numbers and duplexing the functions. And then you could always calculate the `bc` way and just use an array of bytes considered as individual digits as an arbitrary precision format.
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  4. A classic example of the growth potential of doubling.
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