From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 28 17:58:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150EB37B40A for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:58:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 52599 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 01:58:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Oct 2001 01:58:40 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:58:39 -0700 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith , Matthew Dillon , Peter Wemm 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 On 27-Oct-01 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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++") Borland's extended Pascal. /me ducks and runs -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message