lfpinit() signed or unsigned?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Do any of the casts actually change any bits?

I believe not.

> What I was trying to suggest is that another layer of macros might eliminate 
> a batch of casts.

Well, maybe. I didn't find a way to do that.  It's possible I wasn't clever
enough.

> Do any of the RFCs discuss the sign of the time stamps?

I believe the RFC intention is that they should be unsigned offsets from
an epoch date, and the signed case only arises as a result of interval
calculations internal to ntpd.
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