HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64

[Kris Kennaway]

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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