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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64 bit times revisited..
Message-ID:  <200110280036.f9S0arb89926@apollo.backplane.com>

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    World will build with 64 bit time_t.  There was one fatal error in 
    /usr.sbin/md5/md5.c.  I really expected there to be more problems
    but it looks like most of the programs are type-agnostic.  'dd' converts
    time to doubles, for example, before it does anything.

    I'm doing a more complete audit now.  There will certainly be a
    number of programs which truncate to sizeof(long) or sizeof(void *)
    or sizeof(int).  'make' does all three :-) I expect there to be others,
    but nothing that we would have to fix immediately (though I will fix
    them as I come across them).

    So far it's been amazingly painless.  I really don't think this is going
    to be as big a deal as some people think (or even as big a deal as I
    thought it would be, I'm already half way there!).  The next step for
    me is to write the syscall roll functions and test a 64 bit time_t
    kernel with a 32 bit time_t userland.

						-Matt


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