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Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] y2038: Linux: Introduce __clock_settime64 function


On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, Alistair Francis wrote:

> Which I can fix with this diff:

This diff is not the right way to fix this build failure.

One of the design principles in the Y2038 support is that is __TIMESIZE == 
64, the time functions *aren't* trivial wrappers of time64 functions; 
rather, the time64 function definitions are remapped (via macros) so they 
define the function name with no "64".  For each case where there is a 
pair of functions (for different time_t types) in the __TIMESIZE == 32 
case, there should just be the one function when __TIMESIZE == 64.

This ensures that the Y2038 changes don't add any overhead at all in the 
glibc binaries on existing platforms with __TIMESIZE == 64.

You should look at exactly what the types in question are, that are being 
reported as conflicting in your build (probably by looking at preprocessed 
source).  __timespec64 and timespec are supposed to be the same type (via 
#define) when __TIMESIZE == 64, to avoid such incompatibilities.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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