Re: Proposed CHOST change for the 64bit time_t transition

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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Proposed CHOST change for the 64bit time_t transition
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:16:09 +0200
Message-ID: <3650049.QJadu78ljV@noumea>
Organization: Gentoo Linux
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Am Dienstag, 10. September 2024, 01:08:36 CEST schrieb Arsen Arsenovi=C4=87:
> Jacob Bachmeyer <[email protected]> writes:
>=20
> >> At that point, we should bump SONAME of libc and simply remove 32-bit
> >> time support.  This would probably be okay generally.
> >
> > This is probably the best solution to this problem at hand, especially =
since
> > the old ABI has a definite expiration date about 14 years from now.  Bu=
mp the
> > libc SONAME major and hope that we can get rid of the last dependencies=
 on the
> > old SONAME before the deadline.  We will have 14 years to do it, if tha=
t arch
> > is even still used then.
>=20
> Indeed.  I believe the current thinking is that the existing software
> for the old ABI could benefit from libc updates, hence not breaking it,
> but.. it practically is somewhat broken already (hence the troubles that
> lead to this thread).
>=20

This is all nice and good, but I would actually like to focus on realistic
targets (ie., ones which could be achieved significantly before 2038... :o)

That's also the beauty of only appending t64 to the last quadruplet field,=
=20
most software is not impacted by it and just accepts it.

=2D-=20
Andreas K. H=C3=BCttel
[email protected]
Gentoo Linux developer=20
(council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
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