On Monday 19 May 2014 18:12:18 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > A related question would be how you plan to support future CPU architectures > > that never had the 32-bit time_t in the kernel ABI. Would you also want > > to provide both 32 and 64 bit time_t to user space on those? > > I'd expect those just to have 64-bit time_t in userspace (like x32) - > choosing a different type for time_t from the start is a lot simpler than > setting up a second set of interfaces with associated symbol versioning > for an existing architecture. This whole discussion started with the > question of whether Nios II should be such an architecture.... Ok > (Other variants may arise as well, e.g. architectures with existing kernel > support that only get glibc support later.) Good point. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
