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> Is phase 2 that useful? Yes for preparing the upgrade seamlessley for developers, administrators and users. you can prepare your buildscripts before it brea
by deknos 5y ago
> Is phase 2 that useful?
Yes for preparing the upgrade seamlessley for developers, administrators and users.
you can prepare your buildscripts before it breaks, you can build it easier as feature/forward/backward toggle
same logic and code with different toggles is better
- mlyle 5y agoIn practice, all the code in distributions has built in environments with 64 bit time_t. Some end-user legacy code may not be, but it probably isn't much: most things just don't care about a field getting wider behind the scenes. The big pain, IMO, at this point is the big cutover where all libraries need to move to the new ABI. This still doesn't prove things as 2038-safe, but it at least means things reasonably can be 2038-safe on 32 bit if they choose... while today it's impossible for practical purposes.