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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 10:16:35 +0000
From: Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate
table (in entry.S) to use it
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> I've added Rich, Paul, Joseph, and Mike to the cc's as they are probably
> a good subset of libc-alpha to help comment on these issues. My sense
> is that right now, it wouldn't be possible to add a 32-bit architecture
> with a non-32-bit default for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. And, obviously, this
> is why, when I added the tilegx32 APIs to glibc in 2011, I needed to
> provide _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 support.
x32 uses 64-bit off_t only. That's not a problem; the problems are
tv_nsec not of type long, a bug we should avoid for all new ports (padding
on tv_nsec is fine; treating that padding as a significant high part of a
64-bit value on input to glibc / kernel interfaces isn't), and maybe some
other types being 64-bit unnecessarily, although as far as I know the
suggested issues there
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16438> are all
theoretical.
It's true that we don't have a very clear notion of what "wordsize-64"
sysdeps directories mean in glibc for cases such as x32. See
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14116>.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com
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