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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    
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