Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

From: Yury Norov
Date: Thu Jun 23 2016 - 03:36:25 EST


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:32:46AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > So if you want aarch64 to be compatible with aarch32, you need to
> > define __WORDSIZE_TIME64_COMPAT32. If we don't want aarch64 and
> > aarch32 to be compatible at all, then we can drop this patch or if you
> > don't want LP64 and ILP32 to be compatible either.
>
> Or go the other way like s390 and use the LP64 layout for ILP32.
>
> Andreas.
>
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It was an agreement that we don't fix Y2038 issues specifically, as
there will be general fix.