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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Y2038: make __tz_convert compatible with 64-bit-time


On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > They're going to be implementations of APIs called from user source code
> > if/when it defines _TIME_BITS equal to 64 (that'll be the last patch in
> > the whole series), so I don't understand how they could be considered
> > GLIBC_PRIVATE.
> 
> Why do they use the __ prefix?  We generally do not do that.

Because we want to fix bug 14106, and not replicate it for new interfaces 
(and don't intend to have explicit *64 APIs at all for 64-bit time_t, just 
new ABIs, on platforms where time_t is currently 32-bit, which can be 
selected using _TIME_BITS=64).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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