From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 9 11:24: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F38637B405; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fA9JNuE15856; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:23:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:23:56 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Peter Jeremy , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: A thought on 64-bit time_t on Alpha Message-ID: <20011109112356.D15768@kayak.xcllnt.net> References: <20011030225720.A39348@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011102073924.O94635@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20011109104913.B51278@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011109104913.B51278@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:49:13AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:39:24AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > My feeling is that Alpha should move to 64-bit time. I realise that > > it won't survive to 2038, but it is currently our reference 64-bit > > platform. > > > Others have pointed out that the pain of porting FreeBSD to > > a new 64-bit platform will be increased by having to simultaneously > > manage a changed time_t size WRT i386. This pain can be minimised if > > the 32-bit dependencies have been weeded out in the Alpha. > > Feh, by all 3 people using -current on their Alpha's? No thanks. > Those 3 already have too any irons in the fire. This means that there are more FreeBSD/ia64 users than FreeBSD/alpha users on -current. Somehow I don't think this is the case... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message