[External]Re: Question about glibc issue

[Aaron M. Biver]

Thank you very much.  This helps tremendously.


-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> 
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2026 4:00 PM
To: Adhemerval Zanella Netto via Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Cc: Aaron M. Biver <amb58@arl.psu.edu>; Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Subject: [External]Re: Question about glibc issue

* Adhemerval Zanella Netto via Libc-help:

> There is no need build *glibc* with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 nor 
> -D_TIME_BITS=64, these flags are meant to be used by applications.
> The 64-bit time_t support is provided by default for glibc 2.34+, 
> although not enable by default.

Just to clarify, the time64 support is always built into glibc itself.
It's just opt-in (for older 32-bit architectures) when building applications.

Thanks,
Florian