On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:26:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >Is the transition to 1.7 a good time to change the ABI and offer a 64-bit >time_t type that won't overflow in 2038? Would we have to do the same >sort of transition magic as was done back in 1.5 for 32-bit vs. 64-bit off_t?
Argh. I was *just* thinking about this yesterday. I think the answer is yes. We can probably do some header file magic to allow backwards contemptibility, too. I hate making a last minute change like this now but it really is the best time to get this done I think. I'll take a look at how hard it would be to do this over the weekend. Thanks for bringing this up, Eric. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
