Re: On time64 and Large File Support

Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:26:04 +0100

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Evening,

Adam Sampson <[email protected]> writes:
> If the consensus on this does come down to the definition of new
> architecture triplets, are there any other changes that should (or
> could) be made at the same time, beyond time64 and LFS?

Forwarding a suggestion from Arfrever:
> Please consider making regoff_t 64-bit, on both 32-bit and 64-bit
> architectures.
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5945
> https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc.html#Regular-expressions

If an ABI break is inevitable, or a new ABI for the multilib setups,
this seems like a reasonable thing to include in it from my POV.

Have a good one.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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