From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 27 20:32:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6142A37B403; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9S3jGv22054; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110280345.f9S3jGv22054@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Peter Wemm , 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 13:14:46 PDT." <200110272014.f9RKEkj56354@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:45:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > And I'm sure there are still K&R problems too. The point is that > off_t being 64 bits has not posed a serious problem in at least 5 years, > probably longer. It's completely off the radar screen. Bollocks. I've had to deal with off_t problems in several major commercial porting efforts within the last couple of years, and I'm not even a major player in that arena. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message