From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 27 13:17:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E161637B401; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9RKGnS19525; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:16:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: Matthew Dillon , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:12:02 PDT." <20011027201203.294B839F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 22:16:48 +0200 Message-ID: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message