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Date:      Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:54:22 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: struct timeval: why is tv_sec long?
Message-ID:  <20051007205422.GW72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1128709063.1022.9.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>
References:  <1128644542.1273.36.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de> <20051007162846.GB12691@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <1128709063.1022.9.camel@klamath.syndrom23.de>

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On Fri, 2005-Oct-07 20:17:43 +0200, Andreas Kohn wrote:
>As SUSv2 wants tv_sec to be time_t[1], would it be possible to change
>this to time_t on all but alpha? I guess alpha will not receive a switch
>to long anymore[2]. 

tv_sec and time_t are int on Alpha for compatability with Tru64.  Since
the Alpha is now a dead architecture and no longer a tier-1 FreeBSD
platform, it's unlikely anyone will expend the effort to change them.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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