From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 29 13: 0:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD4614BD8 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:00:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA96945; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:00:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199910292000.QAA96945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: jin@george.lbl.gov Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K In-Reply-To: <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov> References: <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < What happens if we change the definition of _BSD_TIME_T to int64_t? > Is it a performance issue or may it break an enormous things? Filesystems and many system calls break. > "long" seems to be a bad type definition in C program since it is not in > a fixed variable size. As Nate has pointed out, no C type is fixed in size. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message