RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Thu Dec 30 23:00:00 GMT 2010


On 12/30/2010 02:21 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2010/12/30 Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>:
>> Would be nice if LFS would be mandatory on the new ABI, thus
>> off_t being 64bits.
> 
> Please do also consider time_t.
> 

Changing the kernel-facing time_t might completely wreck the reuse of
the i386 kernel ABI; I'm not sure.

	-hpa

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