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

Andrew Pinski
2016-06-23T07:37:58Z

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> 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.
>>
>> --
>> 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.

Except that was the agreement for ILP32 what about AARCH32 and AARCH64
LP64 where is a known issue right now.

ARM and AARCH64 maintainers please chime in about this issue.

Thanks,
Andrew