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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-12-21 13:25:39 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-12-21 13:26:13 -0800 |
| commit | ee37744d13296e139b99720c1cf3ea5eed25bfbf (patch) | |
| tree | 306a6360a60ea385af428e56ffd787027ba181de | |
| parent | f162824875e04079dc1fecd6517f9cfe6887069d (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-ee37744d13296e139b99720c1cf3ea5eed25bfbf.tar.gz | |
asctime, ctime: deprecate
C23 deprecates asctime and ctime, so deprecate them in Gnulib too.
* NEWS, doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi:
* doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi: Mention this.
* lib/time.in.h (ctime): Deprecate any ctime replacement.
* modules/ctime: Now obsolete.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/time.in.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | modules/ctime | 6 |
6 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2022-12-21 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + asctime, ctime: deprecate + C23 deprecates asctime and ctime, so deprecate them in Gnulib too. + * NEWS, doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi: + * doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi: Mention this. + * lib/time.in.h (ctime): Deprecate any ctime replacement. + * modules/ctime: Now obsolete. + 2022-12-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> memset_explicit: port to older MS-Windows @@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ User visible incompatible changes Date Modules Changes +2022-12-21 ctime This module is deprecated. Use localtime_r + and strftime (or even sprintf) instead. + 2022-11-03 dynarray These modules are renamed to glibc-internal/dynarray scratch_buffer and glibc-internal/scratch_buffer, respectively. They are not meant for general use. diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi b/doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi index c7dce36f6d..5c4654a866 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/asctime.texi @@ -13,5 +13,8 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +This function is deprecated in C23. +Portable applications can use @code{strftime} (or even @code{sprintf}) instead. +@item This function may overflow its internal buffer if an invalid year is passed. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi b/doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi index d9e194c2b3..bb6abb23a8 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/ctime.texi @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ when the environment variable @code{TZ} has been set by Cygwin. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +This function is deprecated in C23. +Portable applications can use @code{localtime_r} and @code{strftime} +(or even @code{sprintf}) instead. +@item This function may overflow its internal buffer if an invalid year is passed. @item The @code{ctime} function need not be reentrant, and consequently is diff --git a/lib/time.in.h b/lib/time.in.h index 6aa67498f5..aba2eda875 100644 --- a/lib/time.in.h +++ b/lib/time.in.h @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ _GL_CXXALIASWARN (strptime); # if !(defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE) # define ctime rpl_ctime # endif +_GL_ATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED _GL_FUNCDECL_RPL (ctime, char *, (time_t const *__tp) _GL_ARG_NONNULL ((1))); _GL_CXXALIAS_RPL (ctime, char *, (time_t const *__tp)); diff --git a/modules/ctime b/modules/ctime index 949f849b91..2a602dc2c3 100644 --- a/modules/ctime +++ b/modules/ctime @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ Description: ctime() function: convert time to string. +Status: +obsolete + +Notice: +This module is obsolete. + Files: lib/ctime.c m4/ctime.m4 |