From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 27 21: 7:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046FC37B401; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f9S47A188852; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:07:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:07:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200110280407.f9S47A188852@apollo.backplane.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: Peter Wemm , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 References: <200110280345.f9S3jGv22054@mass.dis.org> 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 : :> And I'm sure there are still K&R problems too. The point is that :> off_t being 64 bits has not posed a serious problem in at least 5 years, :> probably longer. It's completely off the radar screen. : :Bollocks. I've had to deal with off_t problems in several major :commercial porting efforts within the last couple of years, and I'm not :even a major player in that arena. Well boohoo, I'm sure it was a real nasty, difficult problem for you. That seems to be what you are implying. It must have been *real* hard doing a #include ! Me? It took me all of 10 seconds to fix the off_t bugs when they came up. I minded a little at first, but it wasn't long until I became a believer. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message