Re: year 2038 is only 12 years away

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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: year 2038 is only 12 years away
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:43:19 +0100
Message-ID: <2503217.NG923GbCHz@noumea>
Organization: Gentoo Linux
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Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2026, 04:18:20 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Normalzeit sch=
rieb Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny:
> > I opened a discussion with the gcc devs at
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D118326 about adding=20
> > warnings for int=3D>time_t conversions. It did not yet get very far, bu=
t=20
> > at least a collegue at SUSE made a PoC patch and identified some corner=
=20
> > cases.
> >=20
>=20
> Thanks for working on this.  Personally, I think the biggest problem is
> that a lot of people don't test their software on 32-bit platforms at
> all.  And the primary cause of that problem is that a large number of
> popular CI platforms don't provide 32-bit environments at all (and
> people obviously don't go out of their way to, say, run a 32-bit
> container on top of the 64-bit CI environment).

^ This, very much.=20

During the glibc release process I had a hard time finding true 32bit
installations for testing.

(For general glibc testing it might even be more tricky because testing=20
on a 32bit *kernel* would be much preferred. That should *not* be needed
for the time issue though.)

=2D-=20
PD Dr. 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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