Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:41:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <200110270041.f9R0fci42111@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200110260006.f9Q05vQ05273@beastie.mckusick.com> <200110260047.f9Q0lsf16513@apollo.backplane.com> <p0510101ab7ff49f3b996@[128.113.24.47]> <20011026134453.B17758@dragon.nuxi.com> <200110262151.f9QLp1b75389@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011026161858.A21629@dragon.nuxi.com>
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:On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:51:01PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
:> In article <20011026134453.B17758@dragon.nuxi.com> you write:
:> >64-bit for FreeBSD or 32-bit for FreeBSD. No 1/2's please.
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:> Are you prepared to do the work to ensure that `long' is the same
:> width on all FreeBSD architectures?
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:If that is desired, I have patches from BDE to make gcc IP32L64....
I don't think this could be done without major major syscall
compatibility work. A large number of routines take or return
'long' arguments. Binary compatibility would go poof.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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