On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 05:16:13PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 10th March 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >The long-threatened change for FreeBSD/sparc64 has now been > >committed. This changes time_t to be a 64-bit quantity, the > >same as it is for the AMD64 and IA64 architectures. People > >running FreeBSD/sparc64 *will* have to read the UPDATING.64BTT > >file for instructions on how to safely build and install this > >change. > > The change to 64-bit time is essential, of course, but I don't understand > why it has to break backward compatibility. Surely you just allocate a > bunch of new system call numbers (for the 64-bit variants) while keeping > the old ones (so 32-bit time calls still work) and bump the version > number of every library. What else is going on? (I don't have a Sparc > or I'd join your experiment.) No-one donated their time to do it that way. Kris
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