* Simon McVittie:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 15:13:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> Remaining usecases of i386 will be old binaries, some old Linux binaries
>> but especially old software (including many games) running in Wine.
>> Old Linux binaries will still need the old 32bit time_t.
>
> Based on
On 2019-07-19 15:13, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> There are two current release architectures where it is at least
> imaginable that they will still be around closer to the year 2038:
> i386 and armhf
With the current way packages are built, i.e. natively on the same
architecture, I don't see 32-bit arch
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:19:23PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Similar to the LFS support, with the
> > additional property that binaries built in either mode should continue
> > to work on kernels which predate support for the *_t
On 2019-07-19 23:19, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Support for the Intel Quark was dropped when the i386 baseline was
> raised from 586 to 686 in stretch, so that's already irrelevant for
> the Debian i386 port.
Intel Quark has never been supported by Debian due to errata #71538,
which requires to omit th
* Adrian Bunk:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Adrian Bunk:
>>...
>> For comparison, the original plan was to provide a macro, perhaps
>> -D_TIME_BITS=32 and -D_TIME_BITS=64, to select at build time which ABI
>> set is used (“dual ABI”).
>
> To me this would
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:13:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk:
>...
> For comparison, the original plan was to provide a macro, perhaps
> -D_TIME_BITS=32 and -D_TIME_BITS=64, to select at build time which ABI
> set is used (“dual ABI”).
To me this would sound like more trouble th
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 at 15:13:00 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Remaining usecases of i386 will be old binaries, some old Linux binaries
> but especially old software (including many games) running in Wine.
> Old Linux binaries will still need the old 32bit time_t.
Based on background from my contrib
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:13:28 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk:
> > For i386 the last newly released 32bit-only hardware were some early
> > Intel Atoms 10 years ago, and when the AMD Geode goes out of production
> > soon there might be no hardware in production left.
> > There are stil
* Adrian Bunk:
> [ only speaking for myself ]
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:05:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>...
>> The consequence is that in order to build 32-bit-time_t libraries
>> (Gtk, for example), an old glibc needs to be kept around. In
>> practice, it would probably mean that it
[ only speaking for myself ]
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:05:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>...
> The consequence is that in order to build 32-bit-time_t libraries
> (Gtk, for example), an old glibc needs to be kept around. In
> practice, it would probably mean that it is impossible to maintain
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