Windows FILETIME

Posted Aug 22, 2013 9:31 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733)
In reply to: Windows FILETIME by cpeterso
Parent article: Pondering 2038

The fact that it's defined as a struct of 2 DWORDs, rather than a simple 64-bit scalar, is seriously annoying. I wonder if this dates back to when Microsoft compilers didn't have built-in 64-bit arithmetic support?