musl - musl - an implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems

clock_gettime: add time64 syscall support, decouple 32-bit time_t

the time64 syscall has to be used if time_t is 64-bit, since there's no way of knowing before making a syscall whether the result will fit in 32 bits, and the 32-bit syscalls do not report overflow as an error. on 64-bit archs, there is no change to the code after preprocessing. on current 32-bit archs, the result is now read from the kernel through long[2] array, then copied into the timespec, to remove the assumption that time_t is the same as long. vdso clock_gettime is still used in place of a syscall if available. 32-bit archs with 64-bit time_t must use the time64 version of the vdso function; if it's not available, performance will significantly suffer. support for both vdso functions could be added, but would break the ability to move a long-lived process from a pre-time64 kernel to one that can outlast Y2038 with checkpoint/resume, at least without added hacks to identify that the 32-bit function is no longer usable and stop using it (e.g. by seeing negative tv_sec). this possibility may be explored in future work on the function.

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