From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 1 14:49:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9470137B424 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:49:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f51LnI289480; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:49:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200106012149.f51LnI289480@earth.backplane.com> To: John Polstra Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, chad@DCFinc.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: time_t definition is worng References: <200106012015.NAA17134@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200106012052.f51KqBT29871@vashon.polstra.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :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 :-- : John Polstra jdp@polstra.com Not being a user of the alpha port, I can't disagree. But if I were I would consider fixing the alpha port now and get it over with rather then later. time_t was one of the few things that transported naturally to 64 bit platforms, and yet it still managed to get fracked up in FreeBSD. This IA32 change from long to int only makes things even MORE fracked up then they already were and is a huge mistake. Rather then further break the IA32 port, if consistency is a goal then the alpha port should be fixed instead. But, at the very least, the IA32 commit should be backed out before it actually gets onto a CD. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message