Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:16:48 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Message-ID: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:12:02 PDT." <20011027201203.294B839F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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In message <20011027201203.294B839F0@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >Glad you mentioned the off_t problem.. We're *still* finding off_t bugs >in *OUR OWN CODE*!! How long has off_t been long long? Nearly 8 years now >and we're *still* finding them! Which clearly points out the real problem: We need a language with better type-checking than C, (but before anybody suggest it: "...but without all the excess luggage and emotional hangups of C++") -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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