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Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?

From: Kevin Easton <hidden>
Date: 2018-12-13 05:03:19
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:29:14AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
...
I can't say anything about the syscall interface. However, what I do know
is that the weird combination of a 32-bit userland with a 64-bit kernel
interface is sometimes causing issues. For example, application code usually
expects things like time_t to be 32-bit on a 32-bit system. However, this
isn't the case for x32 which is why code fails to build.
OpenBSD and NetBSD both have 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems and have
had for four or five years at this point.

    - Kevin
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