From owner-cvs-all Thu May 17 22:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from superconductor.rush.net (superconductor.rush.net [208.9.155.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF3537B42C; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@superconductor.rush.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by superconductor.rush.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f4I5WMT09837; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:32:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:32:21 -0400 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "David O'Brien" 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> References: <200105180143.f4I1hQv81254@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010517221208.L7118@superconductor.rush.net> <20010517211455.A67586@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0us In-Reply-To: <20010517211455.A67586@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:14:55PM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David O'Brien [010518 00:15] wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:12:08PM -0400, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * David E. O'Brien [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