On Wednesday 30 July 2008 17:18:29 Josh Fisher wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 12:30:42 Riyas Y. wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> We could successfully backup and restore using the ported 64 bit windows > >> bacula client. > >> We are still unsure whether these warnings will cause some serious > >> problems later. > > > > I cannot tell you because I have not seen the warnings. > > > >> Similarly we removed the _USE_32BIT_TIME_T preprocessor for 64 bit > >> windows architecture. > >> We are also unsure whether this will cause any problems. > > > > I have never seen the _USE_32BIT_TIME_T preprocessor define, so I cannot > > comment. In general (maybe not 100%) Bacula can accept time_t values > > greater than 32 bits. However, removing the #define is for the moment > > rather useless because we have many years to go before time overflows. > > Windows normally uses a 64-bit time_t, so I believe the intent of that > define is to force the use of 32-bit time_t, which may be useful if > compiling older source that assigned time_t values to int variables, > etc. I doubt it is relevant, since Bacula almost certainly always uses > time_t for time values. > > > Since you are using Microsoft C++, which we do not support, there very > > well could be some 32/64 bit problems depending on how they define > > things. Using a different C compiler requires porting and needs very > > careful testing. I personally would not run such a program in production > > without careful examination of a lot of things and testing for at least a > > month. > > I think porting would be required anyway, in a sense. AFAIK, only 32-bit > versions have been tested. The mingw-w64 compiler > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/) might be an easier port > than MS VC++.
Interesting, I didn't know there was a mingw-w64, and I agree with you it probably would be a much easier port than MS VC++ ... Thanks. Kern > > > Regards, > > > > Kern > > > >> Regards, > >> Riyas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
