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author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2021-06-23 08:57:35 -0700 |
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committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2021-06-23 09:04:22 -0700 |
commit | 03caacbc7f3004ad21fc00bf883f00421a211130 (patch) | |
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doc: _TIME_BITS defaults may change
* NEWS: Don't imply the default will always be 32-bit. * manual/creature.texi (Feature Test Macros): Say that _TIME_BITS and _FILE_OFFSET_BITS defaults may change in future releases.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cadc40262f..d64be288da 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Major new features: * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the --disable-scv configure option. -* Add support for 64-bit time_t for ABIs with defaults to 32-bit time_t. +* Add support for 64-bit time_t for ABIs with defaults currently unchanged. This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1. |