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Re: [HACKERS] Re: Call for port testing on fmgr changes -- Results!

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, pgsql@rkirkpat.net, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-06-25T04:36:13Z
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> Hmm, that makes all kinds of sense if time_t is not the same size as
> AbsoluteTime --- which wouldn't surprise me at all on a 64-bit system.
> time_t *ought* to be 64-bits on such a machine.  The casts in that
> routine,
>                 tx = localtime((time_t *) &time);
> are obviously bogus if so.  Can anyone with an Alpha comment?

I haven't had an Alpha for a couple of years, but I *strongly* recall
that time_t is 64 bits on that machine.

               - Thomas