[PATCH] Disable year 2038 support on 32-bit hosts by default

[Luis Machado]

On 8/2/22 07:42, Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On 8/1/22 16:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:37:27 -0400
>>> From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>>>
>>> My opinion would be to follow the trend and use 64-bit everywhere, and
>>> not have to worry about future-proofing anymore.
>>
>> That's not possible everywhere, though.
>>
>> And I very much doubt that time has come for us to worry about the
>> year 2038.  Does anyone believe GDB 13 will still be used in that
>> year?
> 
> I doubt it. There was some discussion here:
> 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg41057.html
> 
> I'm cc-ing Paul Eggert for additional considerations about this, but at the moment it seems the safest
> is to just use 32-bit time_t for 32-bit hosts. There were some concerns about breaking compatibility if
> we moved to 64-bit time_t on 32-bit hosts.
> 
> Maybe the best course of action is to get autoconf patched to support year2038 checks and then use that
> in binutils-gdb.

Any additional thoughts on this one?