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[PATCH] doc: mention unfixed issues with unsupported localtime() values
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
[PATCH] doc: mention unfixed issues with unsupported localtime() values |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:19:39 +0000 |
Note perl has configure time checks in place to avoid this.
* doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi: Mention that FreeBSD 10
returns nonsense for localtime(2^56).
* doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi: Likewise.
---
ChangeLog | 7 +++++++
doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi | 3 +++
doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi | 3 +++
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 27de588..bf678c2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2016-01-15 P??draig Brady <address@hidden>
+
+ doc: mention unfixed issues with unsupported localtime() values
+ * doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi: Mention that FreeBSD 10
+ returns nonsense for localtime(2^56).
+ * doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi: Likewise.
+
2016-01-14 P??draig Brady <address@hidden>
doc: mention setlocale() issues on OpenBSD
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi
b/doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi
index 27af6e8..fc15c26 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/localtime.texi
@@ -12,4 +12,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+On some platforms, this function returns nonsense values for
+unsupported arguments (like @math{2^56}), rather than failing:
+FreeBSD 10.
@end itemize
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi
b/doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi
index 909a41d..d12bdef 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/localtime_r.texi
@@ -22,4 +22,7 @@ HP-UX 10.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+On some platforms, this function returns nonsense values for
+unsupported arguments (like @math{2^56}), rather than failing:
+FreeBSD 10.
@end itemize
--
2.5.0
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