From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 28 17:14:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AE737B406; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:14:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9T1EI133142; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:14:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Peter Wemm , Matthew Dillon , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Message-ID: <20011028171418.D32015@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200110270636.f9R6aik43419@apollo.backplane.com> <20011027064343.03830380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011027124149.A486@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <3BDB103F.763377D@disney.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BDB103F.763377D@disney.com>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:51:28PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > > I too agree that we should change time_t on the 64bit > > platforms and leave the i386 platform alone. Since people are resisting moving i386 to a 64-bit time_t, only the Alpha users should be able to vote what happens on their platform. Matt Dillon has found bugs where code assumed sizeof(time_t) == sizeof(int), which was benign on the i386, would have been deadly on the Alpha. And this is *precisely* why I have fought to keep the Alpha's time_t the same size as the i386's. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message