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The x32 system call ABI

Posted Sep 6, 2011 12:27 UTC (Tue) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
In reply to: The x32 system call ABI by gmaxwell
Parent article: The x32 system call ABI

Agreed. This, to me, sounds like over-optimizing.

Aside from the possibility of getting a 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems, this sounds like a huge waste of time.

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