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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.

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