Fifth draft of the Y2038 design document

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Feb 22 20:55:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:

> - this leaves the case of a 64-bit architecture kernel providing a
>   32-bit ABI to 32-bit code. I am not planning on supporting such a
>   scenario.

There are several such ABIs (ILP32 ABI for a 64-bit architecture) already 
supported in glibc, e.g. MIPS n32, and all of them that don't already have 
support for 64-bit time_t will need to have it added.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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