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From: Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,
	binutils@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable year 2038 support on 32-bit hosts by default
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:41:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8268d06-ab01-cdf1-7f51-399503846a1f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84fbb332-c6ea-b808-434f-1db99b737df9@arm.com>

Hi Luis,

> Nick, would you know the reason behind binutils not using gnulib?

Originally it was historical - the binutils project was started a
long time before the gnulib project.

These days it is an effort issue - as in it will take a lot of effort
to switch over to using gnulib, and I just do not have the time.  But
if someone else is interested in doing the work then I am not against
it.

There may be some technical issue - I seem to remember seeing some
posts in the past about problems with gnulib - but these can probably
be resolved.  Also I am not sure about the state of the documentation
for gnulib.  If it is minimal, as the gnulib project's web page
suggests, then this is going to hinder adoption into the binutils.

Cheers
   Nick


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-10  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-01  7:51 Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-01 14:08 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-08-01 14:17   ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-01 15:37     ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2022-08-01 15:58       ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-08-02  6:42         ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 11:34           ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 11:58             ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 12:04               ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 12:38                 ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 17:55           ` Paul Eggert
2022-08-08 18:00             ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 18:01               ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-09 15:49                 ` Paul Eggert
2022-08-09 15:59                   ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-09 16:13                     ` Paul Eggert
2022-08-10  9:41                     ` Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches [this message]
2022-08-10 10:14                       ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2022-08-09 16:29                   ` Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-08-09 17:02                     ` Paul Eggert
2022-08-10  8:38                       ` Alan Modra via Gdb-patches
2022-08-08 14:51 ` Nick Clifton via Gdb-patches

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