Re: [PATCH 00/25] Change time_t and clock_t to 64 bit

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> and it
>> would be dumb as hell to have new archs use time_t 32bit when we are
>> currently twisting our brain around how to solve the y2038
>> problem. Simply because we can not do the BSD flag day approach and
>> change it.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to have minor new architectures
> pointlessly different than the major ones.  Especially given that we'll
> absolutely have to fir the y2038 problem for 32-bit arm and probably
> x86 anyway.

Considering someone just told me he plans to keep on using PPC
based MVME boards for 8 more years, you can expect some of today's
32-bit hardware to be around in 24 years...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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