Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:59:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: calm, orderly, deliberate time_t transition.. Message-ID: <200110291759.f9THx6P01010@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2001 09:07:11 PST." <3BDD8CBF.80D85ED4@mindspring.com>
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> IMO, the amount of platform dependent code should be minimized,
> not added to, by whatever policy you end up setting in stone.
> The 32 bit x86 platform will not live forever...
This is why time_t should probably just become "long".
Earlier points about the risks of making it a non-integral type are also
pretty salient. It will expose threaded programs to some very nasty race
conditions which I am sure that the change's proponents will say aren't
their problem.
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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