Re: [PATCH 00/25] Change time_t and clock_t to 64 bit

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 19 May 2014 18:12:18 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > A related question would be how you plan to support future CPU architectures
> > that never had the 32-bit time_t in the kernel ABI. Would you also want
> > to provide both 32 and 64 bit time_t to user space on those?
> 
> I'd expect those just to have 64-bit time_t in userspace (like x32) - 
> choosing a different type for time_t from the start is a lot simpler than 
> setting up a second set of interfaces with associated symbol versioning 
> for an existing architecture.  This whole discussion started with the 
> question of whether Nios II should be such an architecture....

Ok
 
> (Other variants may arise as well, e.g. architectures with existing kernel 
> support that only get glibc support later.)

Good point.

	Arnd
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