Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011025185520.B4609@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:36:02PM -0700 References: <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:36:02PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > I'm somewhat disappointed that we didn't make a clean break with time_t > == long on the alpha. Even DECpaq realized that was a mistake and tried > to switch to 64 bit time_t in Tru64 v5.0. Our Alpha porting happened pre-Tru64 v5.0, and our osf1 compat layer predates it also. Given that, a 32-bit type made sense. And as Andrew said before, DEC Alpha OSF/1 defined that a 64-bit platform looks like. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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