Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:38:55 -0600 From: Brad Huntting <huntting@hunkular.glarp.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Message-ID: <200110271738.f9RHctE12711@hunkular.glarp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2001 10:06:42 PDT." <200110271706.f9RH6ga47601@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Simply changing time_t from an int to a long for 64 bit architectures > will not lessen the amount of work required to make it work properly > on 32 bit architectures 'later'. I consider the approach worthless. > If we are going to change time_t we damn well ought to fix it for all > architectures all at once and get it over with. I agree. 64 bit time routines are need on i386 _today_, and the standard routines (localtime(), etc) are simply too useful to let languish in their current crippled state. brad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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