Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> An alternative that I pondered was to teach the linker about some notion
> of "compatibility strings" that it would compare and reject if
> different, plus teaching the compiler how to emit those, plus teaching
> glibc to tell the compiler to emit those.. We could have key
Paul Eggert wrote:
> I'd rather just switch, as Debian has.
I'd go one step further, and not only
make the ABI transition without changing the canonical triplet,
but also
make gcc and clang define -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TIME_BITS=64
among their predefines.
Rationale:
* We want that a
Paul Eggert writes:
> One possible improvement would be to append "t32" if you want 32-bit time_t,
> instead of appending "t64" for 64-bit time_t. That way, people wouldn't be
> stuck with appending that confusing "t64" for the foreseeable future, and only
> specialists concerned with 32-bit time
