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From:   Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
To:     John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
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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