Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:32:21 -0400 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/arm/include ansi.h src/sys/i386/include ansi.h src/sys/powerpc/include ansi.h Message-ID: <20010518013221.M7118@superconductor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <20010517211455.A67586@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:55PM -0700 References: <200105180143.f4I1hQv81254@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010517221208.L7118@superconductor.rush.net> <20010517211455.A67586@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> [010518 00:15] wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:12:08PM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * David E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> [010517 21:43] wrote: > > > obrien 2001/05/17 18:43:26 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/arm/include ansi.h > > > sys/i386/include ansi.h > > > sys/powerpc/include ansi.h > > > Log: > > > Make _BSD_TIME_T_ (time_t) an `int' rather than `long'. This will help > > > flag errors where programmers assume time_t is a long, which it is not on > > > 64-bit platforms. > > > > Actually isn't there a setting for compilers with int==64 bit? > > Sorry, I'm not following you. My apologies, afaik there's some convention IPL integer-pointer-long? Basically some 64 bit archs _can_ have 64 bit "int" most people don't do that though for storage reasons. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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