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by vbezhenar 1863 days ago
int is signed.
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im3w1l 1862 days ago
It would be possible and kind of hilarious to use a negative offset from year 2b.
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rzzzt 1863 days ago
You don't want to go back 2 billion years from 1900?
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froh 1863 days ago
on x86 and arm. not on s390.
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rzzzt 1863 days ago
In a Java Virtual Machine, it is a 32-bit signed value: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-2.ht...
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froh 1863 days ago
my bad you're right. I got confused on if we are on the java or on the c side of things, because we discussed 'verbatim copy of c struct... fields'

apologies.

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