Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:06:23 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <p05101019b7ff461ad2b8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20011025184936.A4609@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110251708240.99888-100000@beppo> <20011025184936.A4609@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 6:49 PM -0700 10/25/01, David O'Brien wrote: >Thus I want time_t to be the same size on every FreeBSD platform so >that time wrap-arounds happen in the same way on the most popular >platform (read i386) which gets a lot of testing and defines what >is FreeBSD in behavior, and the Alpha platform (which at times seems >to only have a hand-full of users). As we get more platforms, we >are only going to have more of the problem of FreeBSD really only >being well used on one of our offered architectures. Actually, I expect the opposite to happen. I can get my hands on both PowerPC and Sparc64 machines a lot easier than Alpha machines, and certainly Intel is going to push to make IA-64 very common. As these new "higher-volume" platforms come online, I expect a larger percentage of FreeBSD users will be using machines that are NOT i386... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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