At 7:01 PM +1100 12/22/03, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Sun, Dec 21, 2003, Craig Boston wrote: > > The initial compile went off without a hitch. This is no > > doubt due to hard work by the people working on the ia64, > > amd64, etc. ports where time_t is 64-bits by default. A > > side note, I noticed that the alpha and sparc64 ports > > seem to be using 32-bit time_t, which surprised me. > >Alpha has a 32-bit time_t for compatability with Tru64. There >are occasional discussions on -alpha regarding the pros and >cons of moving to 64-bits. I suspect SPARC is 32 bit for >Solaris compatability. Note that there it is likely we will switch sparc64 to a 64-bit time_t before 5.3 is released. We talked about making that change sometime in January, once we would be sure that 5.2-release was settled. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Mon Dec 22 2003 - 10:16:48 UTC
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