Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

Florian Weimer
2018-12-14T16:38:41Z

* Rich Felker:

> This is all useless (and wrong since tv_nsec is required to have type
> long as part of C and POSIX, regardless of ILP32-vs-LP64; that's a bug
> in glibc's x32).

We should be able to fix standards if they prove unworkable in practice.
In my opinion, if standards require complex solutions where an obvious
and simple solution exists, then standards are wrong.

Thanks,
Florian