From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 11:16:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE3816A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:16:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2BD43D5A for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBMJGVlb012268; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:16:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20031222080115.GA645@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200312212239.38557.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20031222080115.GA645@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:16:30 -0500 To: Peter Jeremy , Craig Boston From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An experiment: 64-bit time_t on IA-32 (5.2-RC) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:16:48 -0000 At 7:01 PM +1100 12/22/03, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Sun, Dec 21, 2003, Craig Boston wrote: > > The initial compile went off without a hitch. This is no > > doubt due to hard work by the people working on the ia64, > > amd64, etc. ports where time_t is 64-bits by default. A > > side note, I noticed that the alpha and sparc64 ports > > seem to be using 32-bit time_t, which surprised me. > >Alpha has a 32-bit time_t for compatability with Tru64. There >are occasional discussions on -alpha regarding the pros and >cons of moving to 64-bits. I suspect SPARC is 32 bit for >Solaris compatability. Note that there it is likely we will switch sparc64 to a 64-bit time_t before 5.3 is released. We talked about making that change sometime in January, once we would be sure that 5.2-release was settled. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu