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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-04-10 15:18:19 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-04-10 15:57:16 -0700
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doc: moved year2038 para up
* doc/year2038.texi: Move a paragraph up, as it’s lonely at the end.
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diff --git a/doc/year2038.texi b/doc/year2038.texi
index 81b212e455..3d58659a43 100644
--- a/doc/year2038.texi
+++ b/doc/year2038.texi
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ after the year 2038. However, if your package needs to support
32-bit platforms that will not be used after the year 2038,
you can use the @samp{year2038} module instead.
+If the Gnulib module @samp{largefile} is used but neither
+@samp{year2038} nor @samp{year2038-required} is used,
+@command{configure} will have an option @option{--enable-year2038}
+that causes @code{configure} to behave as if @samp{year2038} was used.
+This is for packages that have long used @samp{largefile} but have not
+gotten around to upgrading their Gnulib module list to include
+@samp{year2038} or @samp{year2038-required}.
+@xref{Large File Support}.
+
With the @samp{year2038-required} module, @command{configure} fails
on the following 32-bit platforms (or ABIs in bi-arch systems):
@itemize
@@ -88,12 +97,3 @@ FreeBSD/arm,
@item
Minix 3.3.
@end itemize
-
-If the Gnulib module @samp{largefile} is used but neither
-@samp{year2038} nor @samp{year2038-required} is used,
-@command{configure} will have an option @option{--enable-year2038}
-that causes @code{configure} to behave as if @samp{year2038} was used.
-This is for packages that have long used @samp{largefile} but have not
-gotten around to upgrading their Gnulib module list to include
-@samp{year2038} or @samp{year2038-required}.
-@xref{Large File Support}.