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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