From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 26 14:26:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01440 for current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01389 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id MAA13406 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA25524; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:36:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611262036.NAA25524@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Dosboot and bcc To: Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at (DI. Christian Gusenbauer) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:36:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at In-Reply-To: <329AC038.134D@utimaco.co.at> from "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" at Nov 26, 96 11:02:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > During the last weekend, I tried to get dosboot to be compiled using bcc. > > > I managed the problems with the K&R standard and am now having the next > > > problems: bcc does not support "long long"! > > > > Umm, do you really need them? > > I don't want to change the system include files. Look into the ufs > implementation, and you'll find "long long" variables. This is so frigging bogus. Like the disk layout should change as a result of non-sized type size changes anyway. The ufs code should use "uint64", not "long long". You should be free to use a structure for it, or whatever, in the type definitions. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.