Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 17:30:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@bostonradio.org Subject: Re: time_t definition is wrong Message-ID: <15129.23259.647389.909649@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200106022040.f52KeSJ05088@earth.backplane.com> References: <200106012318.f51NI8w38590@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <200106020823.f528N5O98998@earth.backplane.com> <20010602085237.A73968@dragon.nuxi.com> <200106021739.f52Hd9V03943@earth.backplane.com> <p05100e0fb73ee9d458f7@[128.113.24.47]> <20010602124907.G31257@dragon.nuxi.com> <200106022005.f52K5FR04823@earth.backplane.com> <20010602131404.M31257@dragon.nuxi.com> <200106022040.f52KeSJ05088@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon writes: > * The two other platforms we have to maintain compatibility with > the most: Solaris and Linux, use 'long'. NetBSD? OpenBSD? Not > an issue for us. In fact, NetBSD seems to be well on their way You forgot osf/1 (compat code in sys/alpha/osf1). Where, indeed, a time_t is an int. > * Our IA32 implementation is not broken. Breaking it to match the > already broken Alpha distribution is inappropriate. If you are > going to break anything you should break (fix) the Alpha > distribution to use long (64 bits). I couldn't care less what you people do on 32-bit platforms where you're just talking about a name change. But please keep your hands off alpha. Its been broken far too frequently. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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