From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Oct 28 17:58:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8062737B409 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:58:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 52628 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 01:58:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Oct 2001 01:58:41 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011028171418.D32015@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:58:41 -0700 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: time_t not to change size on x86 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith , Matthew Dillon , Peter Wemm , Marcel Moolenaar , Jim Pirzyk 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 29-Oct-01 David O'Brien wrote: > 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. I am somewhat divided on this as well. I would like time_t to be a long on all platforms. However, given that the Alpha's future development is dead and that it probably won't be in use come 2038, I fear the usefulness of bumping it's time_t isn't worth the hastle. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message