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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:19:49 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>,
	Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited..
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:28:33PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The phrase 'no freaking way' comes to mind.
> 
>     You guys are outsmarting yourselves.  Seconds, ok.  That's it.  Nothing
>     else.  The *VAST* majority of programs only need seconds, it would be
>     utterly stupid to require that they mess around with some weird fixed
>     point quantity when all they want is seconds, no matter how supposedly
>     'simple' that messing around is (i.e. '>> 64' is not acceptable).

If you make it a union with 128bit and 2 64bit values you can access it
simply by choosing the right name.
I don't see a difference for second only programms compared to have
the sub second part with different meanings.

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