From ee2ff82cba61cb45970326e08dbfc0cebe05b4bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zack Weinberg Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 22:35:28 -0400 Subject: Correct comments about the history of In the "Kill regexp.h" thread, Joseph dug up more accurate information about exactly which editions of the Single Unix Standard included and deprecated this header. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ NEWS | 2 +- misc/regexp.h | 9 +++++---- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cb9124e4e6..82331d5860 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2015-08-05 Zack Weinberg + + * misc/regexp.h: Update comments. + 2015-08-05 Carlos O'Donell * version.h (RELEASE): Set to "stable". diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4c31de7b2d..43dcfdb0bb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Version 2.22 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning. Application developers should update their code to use instead. - This header was formerly part of SUSv2, but was deprecated in 1997 and + This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details. diff --git a/misc/regexp.h b/misc/regexp.h index 346098945d..42394f78cf 100644 --- a/misc/regexp.h +++ b/misc/regexp.h @@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ #ifndef _REGEXP_H #define _REGEXP_H 1 -/* The contents of this header file were standardized in the - Single Unix Specification, Version 2 (1997) but marked as - LEGACY; new applications were already being encouraged to - use instead. POSIX.1-2001 removed this header. +/* The contents of this header file were originally standardized in + the Single Unix Specification, Issue 3 (1992). In Issue 4 (1994) + the header was marked as TO BE WITHDRAWN, and new applications + were encouraged to use instead. It was officially + withdrawn from the standard in Issue 6 (aka POSIX.1-2001). This header is provided only for backward compatibility. It will be removed in the next release of the GNU C Library. -- cgit 1.4.1