Re: features-time64.h on non-linux 32b platforms

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Organization I am not organized
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Paul Eggert, le lun. 24 août 2026 23:56:14 -0700, a ecrit:
> On 2026-08-24 23:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Ok, but what about existing non-linux 32bit ports?
> 
> There's just one such port, right? hurd-i386.

In-tree, yes. Out-of-tree, there may still be some foo-gnu porting
efforts which we do not know.

> Which app defines _TIME_BITS=64 and blindly expects that to work on hurd-i386?

gcli does.

> As far as I know current Gnulib doesn't do that, nor do 'configure' scripts generated by current Autoconf. If it's just older software, or just an oddball package or two, perhaps we should let sleeping glibc dogs lie.

The maintainer of gcli was suprised not to even get a warning. It
doesn't cost much to add one indeed.

Samuel
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