From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 27 13:55:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0181137B403 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9RKtFa56104; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:55:15 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:55:13 -0400 To: Poul-Henning Kamp From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 At 10:16 PM +0200 10/27/01, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Peter Wemm writes: > > Glad you mentioned the off_t problem.. We're *still* finding off_t > > bugs in *OUR OWN CODE*!! How long has off_t been long long? > > Nearly 8 years now and we're *still* finding them! > >Which clearly points out the real problem: We need a language with >better type-checking than C, (but before anybody suggest it: "...but >without all the excess luggage and emotional hangups of C++") Now that's getting into MAJOR bikeshed territory! :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message