On 05/31/17 09:43 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
The alternative would be a large times analog of large file support; why that
wasn't done when 64-bit began, I don't understand. :-)
It was considered at Sun in the late 90's but discarded as going full LP64
already provided a solution without combinatorial explosion of test matrices
for large files x large times. The large files API was created before LP64
was an option on most Unixes, including Solaris.
-alan-
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