32 bit time_t

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Apr 20 10:39:16 UTC 2017


Stromeko at Nexgo.DE said:
> The following is proposed:
>      User code defines _TIME_BITS=64 to get 64-bit time support instead  of
> the legacy 32-bit time.

>      If glibc sees _TIME_BITS=64, then it defines __USE_TIME_BITS64 to
> indicate that time support is 64-bit rather than 32-bit. 

That says "proposed".  Does anybody implement it?

Is it implemented deep inside gcc or should a grep for TIME_BITS in 
/usr/includ/ find something?  (It doesn't on my Fedora system.)

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