Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: fix 32-bit build

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 30.03.2012 21:16, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 03/30/2012 02:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 30/03/2012 21:06, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> On 03/30/2012 01:55 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> Il 30/03/2012 20:29, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>>>>> Now it will fail with w64 (which uses 64 bit time_t and
>>>>>> a 32 bit long).
>>>>>
>>>>> That's a bug in w64 (it has a broken ABI).
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we actually build and run on w64??
>>>>
>>>> It's actually sensible and x32 does the same.  Not too urgent though.
>>>
>>> I don't understand how making a long 32 bit is sensible but...  I 
>>> sent a
>>> patch that should at least address q64.
>>>
>>> Am not sure what x32 is though.
>>
>> x32 is 32-bit ABI (with 32-bit pointers and 4GB address space) with the
>> x86-64 (64-bit) ISA.
>
> Wow.  That's..  interesting :-)
>
> In general, violating sizeof(long) >= sizeof(void *) seems like an 
> exceeding bad idea to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

Any 32 bit system will have to use a 64 bit time_t sooner or later
to avoid an overflow. Not only w64 but also w32 supports it.
Future 32 bit Linux versions will also need it.

The size of a long is a different matter.

Regards,
Stefan W.