From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 28 10:14:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7F537B407 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:14:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.128.59.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.128.59] helo=mindspring.com) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15xuSA-00057W-00; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:14:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3BDC4B3C.1E6A431E@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:15:24 -0800 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 References: <20011027070109.D02E9380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200110272007.f9RK7NG88372@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200110272029.f9RKTIi56468@apollo.backplane.com> <200110272049.f9RKn9K88676@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200110272056.f9RKuiZ64324@apollo.backplane.com> <200110272110.f9RLAeW91039@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200110272220.f9RMKmH64657@apollo.backplane.com> <200110280256.f9S2utu93282@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <200110280310.f9S3AX088632@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> I already responded to the C90 stuff you posted. Your reasoning > :> and the elements you posted were extremely weak arguments, frankly. > : > :As opposed to you who has never participated in the standards process? > > What kind of idiotic statement is this? So only 'blessed' people > have a right to have an opinion about something? Oh please. I agree... now when does Linus get his commit bits, so it's not only blessed people who have a right to an opinion about what the FreeBSD source code should be? 8-) 8-). Seriously, the "blessing" in this case is that he's had to sit through interminable meetings where, at least in theory, all of the issues raised by the changes being proposed have been discussed by people with contradictory opinions, and have then reached at least a rough consensus, or the decision to leave the behaviour undefined (an agreement to disagree). If you want to pare it down to the nub, the issue is sign extension to the largest type on the stack, in the absence of prototypes... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message