Re: UUIDs without long long

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 01:08 PM 6/27/2003, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>I'm planning to implement a version of liblutil/uuid.c:lutil_uuidstr()
>which does not need 'long long'.  Does it have to yield exactly the same
>result as the current version, or can I use an algorithm which does not
>require 64-bit arithmetic?  If so, what algorithm can I use?  Are uuids
>documented somewhere (in a publicly available document)?
>
>-- 
>Hallvard

[UUIDinfo]    The Open Group, "Universally Unique Identifier"
appendix of the CAE Specification "DCE 1.1: Remote Procedure Calls",
Document Number C706,
<http://www.opengroup.org/products/publications/catalog/c706.htm>
(section available at:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/apdxa.htm>), August
1997.