From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 20:59:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFAC16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:59:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5645C43D45 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i054xcvT054642; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i054xbsH054641; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:59:37 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Garance A Drosihn , Harti Brandt Message-ID: <20040105045937.GC25184@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200312212239.38557.craig@xfoil.gank.org> <20031222080115.GA645@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An experiment: 64-bit time_t on IA-32 (5.2-RC) X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 04:59:47 -0000 On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:16:30PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Note that there it is likely we will switch sparc64 to a > 64-bit time_t before 5.3 is released. We talked about making > that change sometime in January, once we would be sure that > 5.2-release was settled. On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 10:09:53AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote: > time_t is a long on Solaris and hence 64bit (when compiling in 64-bit > mode). Compatibility (with Solaris and Posix) requires time_t to be > 64-bit > and tv_sec to be a time_t. I hope we will get this right until > 5.3 goes out. I'm running with a 64-bit time_t for two months now > without problems. Before the tree starts to get disruptive and unstable on the push to 5.3; maybe this is a good time to make the switch to 64-bit time_t for sparc64. -- David