From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 73756 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2018 08:38:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 73673 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2018 08:38:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*ucla.edu X-HELO: zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Y2038: add type __time64_t To: "Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV)" , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <20180613070019.4639-1-albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> <20180613070019.4639-2-albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> From: Paul Eggert Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <08063cdb-eb06-7b47-5020-55852c1b6f96@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 08:38:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180613070019.4639-2-albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00290.txt.bz2 Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV) wrote: > -__STD_TYPE __TIME_T_TYPE __time_t; /* Seconds since the Epoch. */ > +__STD_TYPE __TIME_T_TYPE __time_t; /* Seconds since the Epoch, Y2038-uns= afe. */ This change to commentary is confusing, as __time_t is Y2038-safe on 64-bit= =20 hosts. I suggest omitting the change, and changing the comment on the next = line=20 to "Seconds since the Epoch (TIME_BITS=3D=3D64)" (or whatever the name of t= hat macro=20 is).