> One possible improvement would be to append "t32" if you want 32-bit > time_t, instead of appending "t64" for 64-bit time_t.
I hope you aren't earnestly proposing this worst of both worlds idea (let's change CHOST for any system with no ABI change). > I felt the same way about the 64-bit off_t back in the 1990s. It was > obvious to me even at the time that we would have been significantly > better off making off_t 64-bit, while keeping 32-bit off_t in the ABI > for backward compatibility; this is what NetBSD did with time_t in 2012. > Although I realize others felt differently, I never fully understood > their concerns. > > And here I am, three decades later, still having to make changes[1] to > Autoconf's AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro to continue to support that > 30-year-old off_t mistake, and now with 64-bit time_t interacting with > 64-off_t in non-orthogonal ways. Well, at least time64 implies largefile, so that will get sorted as side effect. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
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