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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Antonios Salios via Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Cc: "Antonios Salios" <antonios@mwa.re>,
	"Jan Henrik Weinstock" <jan@mwa.re>,
	"Lukas Jünger" <lukas@mwa.re>
Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t on riscv32
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:40:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cka7m09.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adb2b94c648ebbacf3b1e934ee2d0dd32688d4f1.camel@mwa.re> (Antonios Salios via Libc-help's message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:52:52 +0100")

* Antonios Salios via Libc-help:

> According to a kernel maintainer, the __USE_TIME_BITS64 macro should be
> set on architectures that use 64-bit time [2], otherwise the kernel
> headers will not be able to pick the correct definition.

__USE_TIME_BITS64 is an internal glibc macro.  It is not used on
architectures which have a 64-bit time_t by default.

Surely the UAPI headers know which time size the architecture uses in
the kernel interface, and can be written arcordingly?

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-15 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-15 12:52 Antonios Salios
2024-01-15 13:40 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2024-01-15 19:55   ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-01-15 20:15     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-01-15 20:29       ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-01-15 22:26     ` Rich Felker
2024-01-16 11:19       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-01-16 15:46         ` Florian Weimer
2024-01-16 15:56           ` Rich Felker
2024-01-16 16:22             ` Florian Weimer
2024-01-16 16:29               ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2024-01-16 20:43               ` Rich Felker

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