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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 16:55:13 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: time_t not to change size on x86
Message-ID:  <p05101002b800cf14ef80@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <19523.1004213808@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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!      :-)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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