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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>,
	John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	"H. J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
	x32@buildd.debian.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mup8gj1y.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181214161732.GY23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (Rich Felker's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:17:32 -0500")

* 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-14 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11  1:23 Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support? Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-11  1:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-11  2:22   ` hpa
2018-12-11  8:16   ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-11 21:53   ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-11 23:22     ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-11 23:35       ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-11 23:55         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-12  2:24         ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-12  2:33           ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-12  9:04             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-12 18:14               ` Joseph Myers
2018-12-12 18:50                 ` Ivan Ivanov
2018-12-12 19:12                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-12 19:18                     ` Ivan Ivanov
2018-12-12 16:39             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-12 16:52               ` Rich Felker
2018-12-12 18:03                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-13 12:40                   ` Catalin Marinas
2018-12-13 15:57                     ` Rich Felker
2018-12-13 16:04                       ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-13 16:28                         ` Rich Felker
2018-12-14 11:42                           ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-14 16:13                             ` Rich Felker
2018-12-13 18:42                         ` Joseph Myers
2018-12-15  4:53               ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-11 23:38       ` Rich Felker
2018-12-11 23:40     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-12-13 14:38   ` Olof Johansson
2018-12-13 15:46     ` Lance Richardson
2018-12-13 16:11   ` Richard Purdie
2018-12-11  3:14 ` H.J. Lu
2018-12-11  5:35   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-11  9:02     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-12-11 11:32       ` Catalin Marinas
2018-12-11 11:37         ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-11 11:52           ` Catalin Marinas
2018-12-11  5:46 ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-11 10:29 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-12-11 10:37   ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-11 10:44     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-12-11 21:59   ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-11 23:33     ` Rich Felker
2018-12-13  5:03   ` Kevin Easton
2018-12-13  9:05     ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-13  9:37       ` Sven Hartrumpf
2018-12-13  9:57         ` Adam Borowski
2018-12-13 18:50         ` Sven Hartrumpf
2018-12-13 12:12       ` Kevin Easton
2018-12-14 14:38       ` David Laight
2018-12-14 15:17         ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-13 16:02   ` Rich Felker
2018-12-14 14:13     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2018-12-14 16:17       ` Rich Felker
2018-12-14 16:29         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2018-12-14 16:38         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-12-14 16:55           ` Rich Felker
2018-12-14 18:58             ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-14 19:59               ` Lance Richardson
2018-12-14 20:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-12-14 21:27                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-14 21:16 ` Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
2018-12-14 21:24   ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-14 21:41     ` Thomas Schöbel-Theuer
2018-12-15  7:41       ` Thomas Schoebel-Theuer
2018-12-15 15:30         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-09 12:41   ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-09 16:02     ` Rich Felker
2019-01-22 13:34   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-12-11 20:38 Shawn Rutledge
2018-12-12  0:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-12-12  9:12 Steven Newbury
2018-12-12 10:48 ` Thorsten Glaser
2018-12-12 13:27   ` Steven Newbury
2018-12-12 14:01 ` Rich Felker
2018-12-12 14:46   ` Steven Newbury
2018-12-12 16:05     ` Rich Felker
2018-12-13 16:17 tedheadster

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