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Date:      Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:00:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        jin@george.lbl.gov
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@uunet.co.za
Subject:   Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K
Message-ID:  <199910292000.QAA96945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov>
References:  <199910291918.MAA24925@george.lbl.gov>

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<<On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:18:30 -0700 (PDT), jin@george.lbl.gov said:

> What happens if we change the definition of _BSD_TIME_T to int64_t?
> Is it a performance issue or may it break an enormous things?

Filesystems and many system calls break.

> "long" seems to be a bad type definition in C program since it is not in
> a fixed variable size.

As Nate has pointed out, no C type is fixed in size.

-GAWollman

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