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Re: Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> I don't much care why the Austin Group doesn't understand that this is
>> a bug. It remains a bug and we should not delay fixing it just
>> because they don't get it.
>
> I don't consider it a bug (on the contrary, I agree with Rich Felker that
> the x32 choice of a different type is a bug and it would be preferable for
> the kernel to handle the high part of nanoseconds as padding when coming
> from a 32-bit process, but in the absence of the kernel doing this glibc
> should do so).
Why do you see this as a better option, when it involves additional
complexity on both ends?
zw