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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-03-16 11:50:38 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2012-03-16 11:51:28 -0700
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doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues
* doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi (sys/types.h): * doc/posix-headers/time.texi (time.h): Mention that glibc x32 does not conform to POSIX in a couple of areas related to integer widths.
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e600a1d5e5..54e3b5d90c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2012-03-16 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues
+ * doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi (sys/types.h):
+ * doc/posix-headers/time.texi (time.h):
+ Mention that glibc x32 does not conform to POSIX in a couple of
+ areas related to integer widths.
+
2012-03-15 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
fmal: Avoid test failure on OpenBSD 5.1/SPARC64.
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi b/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
index 35d24c0c74..249571a8bc 100644
--- a/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
@@ -23,4 +23,9 @@ MSVC 9.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+On some platforms the types @code{blksize_t} and @code{suseconds_t}
+are signed integer types that are wider than @code{long}:
+glibc x32
+
@end itemize
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
index 5b2320338f..5291d46e55 100644
--- a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
@@ -18,4 +18,9 @@ NetBSD 5.0
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+On some platforms the @code{tv_nsec} member of @code{struct timespec}
+is not of type @code{long}, but is of type @code{long long} instead:
+glibc x32
+
@end itemize