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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-headers/time.texi | 16 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2021-07-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + doc: clarify which module fixes 32-bit time_t + * doc/posix-headers/time.texi: Make it clear that the 32-bit + time_t problem is addressed by the year2038 module, not + by the time module. + 2021-07-01 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> year2038: support glibc 2.34 _TIME_BITS=64 diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi index b9be347c77..3d81646454 100644 --- a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi +++ b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi @@ -8,12 +8,6 @@ Gnulib module: time Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -On some platforms where @code{time_t} defaults to 32-bit but can be -changed to 64-bit, functions like @code{stat} can fail with -@code{errno == EOVERFLOW} when a 32-bit timestamp is out of range, -such as with a file timestamp in the far future or past: -glibc 2.34. -@item @samp{struct timespec} is not defined on some platforms. @item The macro @code{TIME_UTC} is not defined on many platforms: @@ -24,6 +18,16 @@ expressions: NetBSD 5.0. @end itemize +Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module @code{year2038}: +@itemize +@item +On some platforms where @code{time_t} defaults to 32-bit but can be +changed to 64-bit, functions like @code{stat} can fail with +@code{errno == EOVERFLOW} when a 32-bit timestamp is out of range, +such as with a file timestamp in the far future or past: +glibc 2.34. +@end itemize + Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item |