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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-10 14:55:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-10 14:55:42 +0200 |
| commit | b865fc7d242e91f2d5246a9f185736c1389cb472 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d0ba4e67ef2191912a37de24e1fa060ab798d5d | |
| parent | fe8a82b5468432d3129623017e58807a0c44f9df (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-b865fc7d242e91f2d5246a9f185736c1389cb472.tar.gz | |
doc: Clarify list of platforms for year2038 support.
* doc/year2038.texi (Avoiding the year 2038 problem): List the platforms
on which year2038-required is known to fail vs. known to succeed.
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@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ 2023-04-10 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + doc: Clarify list of platforms for year2038 support. + * doc/year2038.texi (Avoiding the year 2038 problem): List the platforms + on which year2038-required is known to fail vs. known to succeed. + +2023-04-10 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + doc: Avoid ambiguous wording. * doc/posix-headers/time.texi: Say "or" not "and". diff --git a/doc/year2038.texi b/doc/year2038.texi index d98753101e..abb7b54c84 100644 --- a/doc/year2038.texi +++ b/doc/year2038.texi @@ -18,6 +18,51 @@ timestamps. On older platforms that do not support timestamps after the year 2038, @samp{year2038-required} causes @command{configure} to fail. +With the @samp{year2038-required} module, @command{configure} fails +on the following 32-bit platforms (or ABIs in bi-arch systems): +@itemize +@item +Linux with glibc < 2.34 on +x86, arm, mips (32-bit or n32 ABI), powerpc, sparc, s390, hppa, m68k, sh, csky, microblaze, nios2, +@item +Linux/riscv32, +@item +Mac OS X on x86 and powerpc, +@item +GNU/Hurd/x86, +@item +GNU/kFreeBSD/x86, +@item +FreeBSD/x86, +@item +MidnightBSD/x86, +@item +AIX/powerpc, +@item +Solaris 10 and 11 on x86 and sparc, +@item +Cygwin/x86, +@item +Haiku/x86. +@end itemize + +Whereas no failure will occur on the following 32-bit platforms or ABIs: +@itemize +@item +Linux/x86 with glibc >= 2.34 on +x86, arm, mips (32-bit or n32 ABI), powerpc, sparc, s390, hppa, m68k, sh, csky, microblaze, nios2, +@item +Linux/x86_64-x32, +@item +NetBSD on x86 and sparc, +@item +OpenBSD/x86, +@item +FreeBSD/arm, +@item +Minix 3.3. +@end itemize + The Gnulib module @samp{year2038} is like @samp{year2038-required}, except that it causes @command{configure} to fail only when it appears that the current system should support post-2038 timestamps but |