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SubjectRe: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
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On Wednesday 31 August 2011 09:48:35 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > Well, we could chicken out and just use unsigned int for time_t on new
> > 32 bit ABIs, which would buy us time until ~2106 before we need to
> > convert everything to 64 bit...
>
> 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.

Arnd


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