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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:46:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited..
Message-ID:  <200110291746.f9THk2713600@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011029064937.C75481@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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<<On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:49:37 +1100, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> said:

> exponential growth in the number of syscalls: Consider a hypothetical
> system that has two off_t sizes and two time_t sizes - it will need 4
> stat() syscalls (and maybe others).

Actually, no; there are just two options:

1) Data types other than off_t might be C99 ``extended integral types''.

2) Data types other than off_t are not C99 ``extended integral types''.

...since we never supported the LFS extensions.

-GAWollman


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