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by nwallin 627 days ago
> Every time I see people struggling with this, I am so incredibly glad that I forced the issue for FreeBSD when I did the initial amd64 port. I got to set the fundamental types in the ABI and decided to look forward rather than backward.

Hold on. You're saying that when amd64 happened, FreeBSD ported i386 time_t to 64 bits as well? That's wild. Were other 32 bit architectures ported to 64 bit time_t as well, like the Motorola 68000 and sparc32?