On Thu, 10 Sep 2026, Ian Jackson wrote: >Sorry, forgot to CC this to you. (Hi, btw. Hope you're doing OK.)
Hi! Fatigued but doing okay, yes, but I’m no longer involved in d-ports due to… oh my, where do I start… systemd, usrmerge, nuclear reactors, and “AI”. But! I can answer some of your questions. >I suspect that the cause is something to do with erroneous type >punning between time types, perhaps time_t. Does x32 have a 64-bit >time_t ? What size is its long ? x32, amd64ilp32, and similar have 32-bit long and 64-bit time_t, yes. This is not an unusual configuration, MirBSD/i386 has had this since 2004 (sparc joined in 2021), NetBSD did it around 2012, etc. >I guess we don't know if adns actually functions normally on x32 ? >I see that it's not in ci.debian.net, for example. (Since this >bug was filed, adns has grown autopkgtests.) I don’t know either, but it’s actually rather easy to test; you need an amd64 box with “syscall.x32=y” on the kernel command line to enable the ABI (it’s not fuzz-tested, therefore disabled by default even if present, to avoid security accidents), then you can debootstrap it from 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main' with --extra-suites=unreleased into a chroot. It has no kernel packages, but with dpkg --add-architecture=amd64 you can install one and then even run it, I did this for years as $dayjob desktop, adding individual packages from i386/amd64 where the x32 one did not yet work (but for testing purposes, a chroot should do). x32 is half on its way out (even the original author lacks interest, and klibc/x32 is actually amd64), but Gentoo and PLD Linux have working installations, so it may live longer (I am still fond of the idea). If you run into problems, #d-ports on OFTC might have people who can help (though porting work is mostly Adrian), or ask. Thanks, //mirabilos -- “It is inappropriate to require that a time represented as seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.” -- IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX) Section B.2.2.2
