Date: 27 Oct 2001 14:04:06 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Message-ID: <xzpsnc5p9vt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011027023924.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.011027023924.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Actually, Peter listed like 3 proposals. I think changing the 386 > would be the wrong thing to do. At the very least, it should be > changed last. First change the 64-bit archs to use a 64-bit time_t > (i..e., make time_t a 'long'). Then fix up the bugs that crop up > from that. You can worry about hosing the ppc and i386 ports later. > You may even want to make the ppc port use a 64-bit time_t since it > is new, but I would leave i386 alone. I'm willing to go along with this as a compromise. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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