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

[Harti Brandt]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote:

PJ>On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:39:38PM -0600, Craig Boston wrote:
PJ>>The initial compile went off without a hitch.  This is no doubt due to hard
PJ>>work by the people working on the ia64, amd64, etc. ports where time_t is
PJ>>64-bits by default.  A side note, I noticed that the alpha and sparc64 ports
PJ>>seem to be using 32-bit time_t, which surprised me.
PJ>
PJ>Alpha has a 32-bit time_t for compatability with Tru64.  There are
PJ>occasional discussions on -alpha regarding the pros and cons of moving
PJ>to 64-bits.  I suspect SPARC is 32 bit for Solaris compatability.

time_t is a long on Solaris and hence 64bit (when compiling in 64-bit
mode). Compatibility (with Solaris and Posix) requires time_t to be 64-bit
and tv_sec to be a time_t. I hope we will get this right until 5.3 goes
out. I'm running with a 64-bit time_t for two months now without problems.

harti
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