Am Dienstag, 10. September 2024, 01:08:36 CEST schrieb Arsen Arsenović: > Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> At that point, we should bump SONAME of libc and simply remove 32-bit > >> time support. This would probably be okay generally. > > > > This is probably the best solution to this problem at hand, especially since > > the old ABI has a definite expiration date about 14 years from now. Bump > > the > > libc SONAME major and hope that we can get rid of the last dependencies on > > the > > old SONAME before the deadline. We will have 14 years to do it, if that > > arch > > is even still used then. > > Indeed. I believe the current thinking is that the existing software > for the old ABI could benefit from libc updates, hence not breaking it, > but.. it practically is somewhat broken already (hence the troubles that > lead to this thread). >
This is all nice and good, but I would actually like to focus on realistic targets (ie., ones which could be achieved significantly before 2038... :o) That's also the beauty of only appending t64 to the last quadruplet field, most software is not impacted by it and just accepts it. -- 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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