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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 02:55:52 +1000 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, drosih@rpi.edu
Subject: Re: time_t definition is wrong 
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <200106022043.f52KhFh35078@vashon.polstra.com>, John Polstra writes:
> 
> >I'd prefer to keep it as "long" at least on the i386, because that's
> >what the type was for years before ANSI renamed it to "time_t".
> 
> That, in my mind, is actually a good argument for making it "int" so
> that we can flush out those places which don't use time_t well in
> advance of the unaviodable change to >32 bits...

This is the main reason that I changed it.  However, I didn't intend the
change to be committed anywhere except in -current.

Bruce


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