Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 08/31/2011 12:18 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> You do realize that there are probably quite a lot of programs that
>> depend on signed time_t because they really do care about dates before
>> 1970?
> 
> Yes, it already occurred to me after I had written the above that we
> really want it to be signed, especially to allow a meaningful conversion
> at least one-way between 32 and 64 bit time_t values.
> 

The only reason I mentioned redefining 32-bit time_t as unsigned was for
*legacy ABIs*.

	-hpa


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