Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

Florian Weimer
2016-06-24T11:33:09Z

On 06/23/2016 09:36 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> So if you want aarch64 to be compatible with aarch32, you need to
>>> define __WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32. If we don't want aarch64 and
>>> aarch32 to be compatible at all, then we can drop this patch or if you
>>> don't want LP64 and ILP32 to be compatible either.
>>
>> Or go the other way like s390 and use the LP64 layout for ILP32.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
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>> Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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>
> It was an agreement that we don't fix Y2038 issues specifically, as
> there will be general fix.

As far as I understand this, it is not a Y2038 issue because it affects
current systems using current dates. It's a separate bug IMHO.

Florian