From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri May 8 08:46:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10596 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 08:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10588 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 08:46:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no (skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.65.2]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id RAA24348; Fri, 8 May 1998 17:46:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:46:39 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 To: tomeij@iname.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K and the Epoch Clock References: <355315B3.859FE9CF@from.net> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 May 1998 17:46:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: "11.10.9"'s message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 10:24:51 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "11.10.9" writes: > My I put in a vote for a 96 bit counter as, at least the FreeBSD, > standard? Not feasible. time_t needs to be a scalar, and there's no way I know of to produce 96-bit scalars in C on an ILP32 architecture. OTOH, by the time we all migrate to ILP64, we'll probably have 128-bit long longs, which would do the job nicely. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message