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Subject: Re: time_t definition is wrong
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Matt Dillon writes:
 > 	* The two other platforms we have to maintain compatibility with
 > 	  the most:  Solaris and Linux, use 'long'.  NetBSD?  OpenBSD?  Not
 > 	  an issue for us.  In fact, NetBSD seems to be well on their way

You forgot osf/1 (compat code in sys/alpha/osf1).  Where, indeed, a
time_t is an int.


 > 	* Our IA32 implementation is not broken.  Breaking it to match the
 > 	  already broken Alpha distribution is inappropriate.  If you are 
 > 	  going to break anything you should break (fix) the Alpha
 > 	  distribution to use long (64 bits).

I couldn't care less what you people do on 32-bit platforms where
you're just talking about a name change.  But please keep your hands
off alpha.  Its been broken far too frequently.

Drew



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