From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 17 8:44:57 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FC537B401; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:44:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [65.39.129.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC1843E4A; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@espresso.q9media.com) Received: by espresso.q9media.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BB36A9B09; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:34:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:34:33 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Julian Elischer Cc: Matthew Dillon , Nate Lawson , Julian Elischer , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 dump_machdep.c Message-ID: <20021217113433.M61753@espresso.q9media.com> References: <200212170108.gBH18V4r082434@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from julian@elischer.org on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:01:15PM -0800 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Isn't it using off_t there? 64 bit offsets? > > yep it is now. > But I'm not going to depend on it > > If we change it and later someone makes off_t unsigneor changes it to an > unsigned value of some type (off_t is a bad choice I think) > then it will continue to work until someone's root partition > gets cleared. off_t is standardize, it will always be a signed integer type. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message