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* [glibc] Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
@ 2020-10-16 18:17 Adhemerval Zanella
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=d6fa3170997b4af0a702eebdae7e4d3c57d74b65

commit d6fa3170997b4af0a702eebdae7e4d3c57d74b65
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 16 15:16:06 2020 -0300

    Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move

Diff:
---
 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e84c39aeb1..6eb577a669 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
   implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
   Instead, the default implementation is used.
 
+* The deprecated <sys/timeb.h> header and the ftime function have been
+  removed.  To support old binaries, the ftime function continue to exist
+  as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it).  All
+  programs should use gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
+
 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with


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