From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Oct 29 1:29: 1 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 8547D37B407 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70899 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 09:28:56 -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 09:28:56 -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: <200110290244.f9T2ihc04347@mass.dis.org> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:28:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org 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 29-Oct-01 Mike Smith wrote: >> Changing alpha isn't near as "bad" as changing i386, as it already passes >> arg >> s >> in 64-bit registers, so printf won't break, etc. I don't think i386 should >> ever change, personally, but I don't think it will really break Alpha near >> as >> much as i386. > > As with most folk, you forget pass-by-reference here. 8) It still may not be as fatal. If alpha aligns structures on 8 byte boundaries to avoid alignment problems, then you will actually have 8 bytes regardless. Depends on how strict the alignment is, though. -- 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