[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1067957: [EXTERNAL] Re: [[maude-bugs]] Maude fails to build on armhf

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi Steven

On 2024-04-08 15:38:50 -0700, Steven Eker wrote:
> Hi Nilish,
> 
> I don't have a 32-bit machine to test on, but my understanding is that Linux
> has moved to a 64-bit signed integer for time_t and this is a long long on
> 32-bit machines which is explicitly not supported by GMP's C++ API.

This sounds like it needs to fixed in GMP then.

> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
> https://gmplib.org/manual/C_002b_002b-Interface-Integers
> 
> I'm not happy converting a signed value to an unsigned value for all
> architectures. But
> 
>   mpz_class nanoSeconds(static_cast<Index>(timeValue.tv_sec));
> 
> should fix the problem, at least until 2038. Can you check that this works?
> If so I'll put it in the next public alpha.

And this does not sound like a fix which we want.

Best
Sebastian
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Sebastian Ramacher