kc3-lang/gnulib/doc/posix-headers/time.texi

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  Date : 2021-07-06T15:08:05
  

  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.
  

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• doc/posix-headers/time.texi

• @node time.h
  @section @file{time.h}
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/time.h.html}
  
  Gnulib module: time
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  @samp{struct timespec} is not defined on some platforms.
  @item
  The macro @code{TIME_UTC} is not defined on many platforms:
  glibc 2.15, macOS 10.13, FreeBSD 11.0, NetBSD 7.1, OpenBSD 6.0, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11.31, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 2.9, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 9.0.
  @item
  Some platforms provide a @code{NULL} macro that cannot be used in arbitrary
  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
  On platforms where @code{time_t} is always 32-bit, functions like
  @code{stat} can fail with @code{errno == EOVERFLOW} when a timestamp
  is out of range, such as with a file timestamp in the far future or
  past; on other such platforms,
  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.
  @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:
  glibc x32
  @end itemize
  

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