From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103904 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2018 14:24:59 -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 103543 invoked by uid 89); 13 Jun 2018 14:24:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:719 X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:24:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Florian Weimer CC: Albert ARIBAUD , Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Y2038: make __tz_convert compatible with 64-bit-time In-Reply-To: <290446d5-cbe0-c49d-85bf-3416118786d5@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20180613070019.4639-1-albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> <20180613070019.4639-3-albert.aribaud@3adev.fr> <900b27d1-a90a-ed3a-e298-1544968a23dd@redhat.com> <20180613113652.0940f3ff@athena> <290446d5-cbe0-c49d-85bf-3416118786d5@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Florian Weimer wrote: > > They're going to be implementations of APIs called from user source code > > if/when it defines _TIME_BITS equal to 64 (that'll be the last patch in > > the whole series), so I don't understand how they could be considered > > GLIBC_PRIVATE. > > Why do they use the __ prefix? We generally do not do that. Because we want to fix bug 14106, and not replicate it for new interfaces (and don't intend to have explicit *64 APIs at all for 64-bit time_t, just new ABIs, on platforms where time_t is currently 32-bit, which can be selected using _TIME_BITS=64). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com