Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:07:15 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

 
GNU/Linux has had 64-bit time for many years already.

 
   It's not just HAVING 64/128-bit vars. Gotta look
   at every function, every line. The original pgmr
   likely specified 32-bit vars for a of of the
   date-related stuff because, well, datetime is
   always 32 bit, right ? Hey, the cdates/mdates
   on FILES too ......
 

If the programmer follows ISO/POSIX standards then
it will all automatically become 64-bit because all
libc time/date functions are based on time_t, which
is an integer defined in the libc headers.

Some filesystem timestamps may still be 32-bit but
that shouldn't be hard to fix.  If the filesytem is
in wide usage it should be fixed already.

   The swamp just gets deeper and deeper.
 
   There are kind of the literal gazillion bits of
   code in dozens of languages created from the
   late 1950s on that are inside apps/systems
   everywhere today that in some way deal
   with, depend on, datetimes.
 

Most C source code from the 1950's, or even the 1990's,
would not on run on current 64-bit systems anyway,
irrespective of date/time functions.

I have had to convert code from the early 2000's just
to make it run on my machine.  The change from 32 to
64 bit processors forced many, many packages to be
rewritten.

But you are correct.  Lot's of code won't make it but
for desktop GNU/Linux workstations this code is largely
irrelevant and may be irrelevant elsewhere as well.





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