From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 18:55:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4188637B406 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9Q1tKo04718; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:55:20 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Peter Wemm Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011025185520.B4609@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:36:02PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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