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SubjectRe: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 03:42, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> time_t really *should* be 64-bit, the same way "off_t" should be. If
> it's not, there's something wrong.

Which will break all this non-portable 32-bit-only source code x32 was invented
for in the first place?
Someone will pass a time_t or off_t and an innocent pointer to a custom
printf-alike function to format it like "%u %s" and it will go bang...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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