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Re: remaining tasks before Autoconf release
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: remaining tasks before Autoconf release |
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Sat, 13 May 2023 04:52:04 +0200 |
Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Perhaps this has already been addressed, but what prevents a 32-bit OS
> from nonetheless having a 64-bit time_t?
Nothing. That's the case in particular on
- Linux on arc, loong32, ork1, riscv32 and x86_64-x32,
- NetBSD 6.0 (2012) and later on x86 and sparc,
- OpenBSD 5.5 (2014) and later on x86,
- FreeBSD/arm,
- Minix 3.3 (2014),
- MSVC on x86.
[1]
> Do the tests accommodate the possibility of time_t being long long?
Yes, and you find the test results listed in this mail thread [2]
under "msvc x86".
Bruno
[1] gnulib/doc/year2038.texi
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2023-04/msg00030.html