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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 16:24:40
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42ibBsA_tfZzHaPjcJhCbLrPmD3jwCSei2D-Rs56jfsmA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: migration from uclibc to uclibc-ng by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:07 PM, <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > I don't know if this is on topic. Is it possible to backport 64-bit
3 > date/time to uclibc-ng in 32-bit mode? 32-bit date runs between late
4 > 1901 and early 2038. 2038 is not that far away. E.g. in a 32-bit VM...
5
6 This seems pretty off-topic for this thread.
7
8 I think the kernel would need to support 64-bit time interfaces in the
9 x86 ABI before any libc could use them.