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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:39:24 -0500
To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>,
	Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src UPDATING UPDATING.64BTT
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At 12:59 PM -0500 3/10/04, Ken Smith wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 10, 2004, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>  >     sys/sparc64/include  _types.h
>  >   Log:
>  >   Change time_t from a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value, on
>  >   FreeBSD/sparc64 only.  This is a  MAJOR  incompatible
>  >   change for the sparc64 platform, but will not effect
>  >   FreeBSD on other architectures.
>
>And the crowds cheered...  :-)
>
>Thanks a lot for all the prep work on this.

I'm sure we will still run into minor bugs with various programs
that assume time_t == int32_t, but we can tackle them one at a
time.  Those fixes won't be quite as traumatic as this change!

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu