Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:44:01 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <p05101001b7ff87a52fa3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011026134453.B17758@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200110260006.f9Q05vQ05273@beastie.mckusick.com> <200110260047.f9Q0lsf16513@apollo.backplane.com> <p0510101ab7ff49f3b996@[128.113.24.47]> <20011026134453.B17758@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 1:44 PM -0700 10/26/01, David O'Brien wrote: >On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:29:53PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > We are hoping to bring on new platforms of sparc64 > > and ia-64 for the 5.0-timeframe (or certainly before the 6.0 >> timeframe). It would be exceedingly stupid to start out those >> 64-bit platforms on 32-bit time_t's, when we KNOW we will have > > switch to 64-bit times at some later point. > >I disagree. I have experience trying to run our "lesser" [used] >platform, most of you do not. Keeping things bug-for-bug and >"feature"-for-"feature" identical is important. Once sparc64 shows up, I'll be getting just as much experience as you will... Same for PowerPC. (which is to say, I plan to run FreeBSD on three hardware architectures, one of which will be 64-bit). > > Given 64-bit time_t's for the new platforms, we might as well go >> for 64-bit times on all platforms (although we obviously can > > not MFC that back into the 4.x-branch for 32-bit platforms). > > I don't feel quite so strongly about 64-bit time_t's on 32-bit > > architectures, but it does seem like the right thing to do. > >64-bit for FreeBSD or 32-bit for FreeBSD. No 1/2's please. I suspect we just have slightly different priorities... I'll pound the table for 64-bit on 64-bit (particularly for all those new platforms), and merely vote yes for 64-bit on 32-bit. You can give a lukewarm vote of yes for 64-bit on 64-bit, and then pound the table that time_t should be the same on all platforms... Seems like we should be able to come up with an agreeable solution here! :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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