From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 23:26:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC13716A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:26:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (nan-smtp-03.noos.net [212.198.2.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E36143F93 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@noos.fr) Received: (qmail 8600606 invoked by uid 0); 16 Oct 2003 06:22:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 7735956 invoked by uid 0); 15 Oct 2003 07:07:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx2.freebsd.org) ([216.136.204.119]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.72 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Oct 2003 07:07:26 -0000 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B3556263; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:07:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99B4416A4D7; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:07:22 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E5616A4B3; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de (mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de [193.174.154.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221F843FAF; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de) Received: from beagle (beagle [193.175.132.100])h9F76cD05857; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:06:38 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:06:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt To: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <20031014225053.GA59096@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: <20031015090422.M57857@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <20031013153219.H45269@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20031015045429.Q41837@gamplex.bde.org> <20031014225053.GA59096@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org cc: standards@freebsd.org cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time_t on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 06:26:03 -0000 On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: MM>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:28:08AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: MM>> > MM>> > I guess we have to do this work before 2038, don't we? If we don't do it MM>> > before 5.2 we have to stick with this until 6.0. Correct? MM>> MM>> Yes. MM>> MM>> It is too late to change it for 5.n IMO. Every syscall that uses a time_t MM>> or a timeval would need to be duplicated. MM> MM>I'd rather we create a new sysent and prune the syscalls to get rid of MM>other compatibility cruft. It also allows us change userland visible MM>structures to make them more LP64 friendly. MM> MM>BTW: time_t on ia64 is already 64 bit. Hmm. In this case it should be rather easy to change sparc64's time_t to 64bit? The only changes should be in MD code (in theory). But this would clearly break existing installations, so I guess we'd rather wait until the fork of 6. harti -- harti brandt, http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/cats/employees/hartmut.brandt/private brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de, harti@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"