Rich Felker
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the elf_prstatus structure is used in core dumps, and the timeval structures in it are longs matching the elf class, *not* the kernel "old timeval" for the arch. this means using timeval here for x32 was always wrong, despite kernel uapi headers and glibc also exposing it this way, and of course it's wrong for any arch with 64-bit time_t. rather than just changing the type on affected archs, use a tagless struct containing long tv_sec and tv_usec members in place of the timevals. this intentionally breaks use of them as timevals (e.g. assignment, passing address, etc.) on 64-bit archs as well so that any usage unsafe for 32-bit archs is caught even in software that only gets tested on 64-bit archs. from what I could gather, there is not any software using these members anyway. the only reason they need to be fixed to begin with is that the only members which are commonly used, the saved registers, follow the time members and have the wrong offset if the time members are sized incorrectly.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/