Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:01:37 +0200 | Subject | Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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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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