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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: chad@DCFinc.com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: time_t definition is worng
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In article <200106012015.NAA17134@freeway.dcfinc.com>,
Chad R. Larson <chad@DCFinc.com> wrote:
> 
> From the commit log:
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> revision 1.25
> date: 2001/05/18 01:43:25;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
> Make _BSD_TIME_T_ (time_t) an `int' rather than `long'.  This will help
> flag errors where programmers assume time_t is a long, which it is not on
> 64-bit platforms.
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> Well, time_t may or not be a "long", depending on your platform.  But it
> sure as hell is 64-bits.
> 
> Back out the revision.

No, time_t is and always has been 32 bits on all FreeBSD platforms.

I agree with Matt that it would be nice if it were 64 bits at least on
64-bit platforms.  Unfortunately, practically speaking it's too late
to make that change now.

John
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