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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-headers/time.texi')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi index 5ecebbfdda..a506ec640c 100644 --- a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi +++ b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi @@ -18,14 +18,16 @@ expressions: NetBSD 5.0. @end itemize -Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib module @code{year2038}: +Portability problems fixed by the Gnulib modules +@code{year2038-required} and @code{year-2038}: @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. +glibc 2.34+ atop 32-bit x86 or ARM Linux. +@xref{Avoiding the year 2038 problem}. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @@ -39,6 +41,8 @@ the functions silently return the low-order 32 bits of the correct timestamp. These platforms will be obsolete when 32-bit @code{time_t} rolls around, which will occur in 2038 for the typical case when @code{time_t} is signed. +@xref{Avoiding the year 2038 problem}. + @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: |