Re: Revisiting 64-bit time_t

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 03:36:19AM -0500, A. Wilcox wrote:
> Overall this seems like a decent proposal. However...
> 
> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:06 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
> > However Y2038 is not all that far off, desktop/server distros really
> > have rather little interest left in 32-bit archs (especially not
> > coordinating a costly ABI swap just for them)
> 
> This is really incorrect. We at Adélie are QUITE interested in
> 32-bit architectures including:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Please, please do not write off 32-bit desktop usage.

I'm sorry my wording contributed to a narrative that 32-bit is dead;
that's not at all my intent, but I can see how it could be harmful to
efforts to maintain support.

My intent here is the other direction -- due to dominance of 64-bit
archs on desktop and server these days, there's much less effort being
put into the future of 32-bit ones, and I don't want to make a
decision here that would incentivize distros that don't already care
strongly about keeping 32-bit arch support to just drop it, rather
than going through a painful ABI swap-out.

Thanks for your work continuing to press applications not to break
these archs.

Rich