Re: An experiment: 64-bit time_t on IA-32 (5.2-RC)

From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:16:30 -0500
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.

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