From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 17:41:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9976A37B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f9R0fci42111; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:41:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:41:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200110270041.f9R0fci42111@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Garrett Wollman , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. References: <200110260006.f9Q05vQ05273@beastie.mckusick.com> <200110260047.f9Q0lsf16513@apollo.backplane.com> <20011026134453.B17758@dragon.nuxi.com> <200110262151.f9QLp1b75389@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20011026161858.A21629@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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. :> :> Are you prepared to do the work to ensure that `long' is the same :> width on all FreeBSD architectures? : :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message