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Re: Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Albert ARIBAUD <albert dot aribaud at 3adev dot fr>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb dot de>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <y2038 at lists dot linaro dot org>, Deepa Dinamani <deepa dot kernel at gmail dot com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:55:39 +0000
Subject: Re: Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document
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References: <20170222090511.48be22ed.albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> <CAK8P3a2-vsreq0WFiTS-WizSvmci_C5f4pMAiYF7-OhjzQZiNg@mail.gmail.com> <20170222193333.55c722ab.albert.aribaud@3adev.fr>

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> - this leaves the case of a 64-bit architecture kernel providing a
>   32-bit ABI to 32-bit code. I am not planning on supporting such a
>   scenario.

There are several such ABIs (ILP32 ABI for a 64-bit architecture) already 
supported in glibc, e.g. MIPS n32, and all of them that don't already have 
support for 64-bit time_t will need to have it added.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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