From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 31 0:32:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFCC37B405; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:32:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.138.195.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.138.195] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yqnR-0000LS-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:32:25 -0800 Message-ID: <3BDFB74D.4EBD3145@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:33:17 -0800 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: John Baldwin , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 References: <3BDED411.DDEA0BD7@mindspring.com> <15326.55441.615206.243327@caddis.yogotech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > > > > Java has several problems: > > > > > > I still prefer it to C++'s problems. :) > > > > These all devolve into programmer issues. They are no worse > > than the requirement to use prototypes or the "volatile" > > keyword, which were added to C. > > You don't *have* to use volatile in C, and the addition of the volatile > keyword came out of C++ work. We can blame it on C++. (I have a friend > on the C++ standards committee, and we love to give him grief about what > a joke the language is.) Actually, there are situations where you _must_ use volatile to prevent register optimization of variables. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message