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> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:37:27 -0400
> From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> My opinion would be to follow the trend and use 64-bit everywhere, and
> not have to worry about future-proofing anymore.

That's not possible everywhere, though.

And I very much doubt that time has come for us to worry about the
year 2038.  Does anyone believe GDB 13 will still be used in that
year?