From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 1211) id E10B73886C4E; Fri, 25 Jun 2021 04:12:41 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org E10B73886C4E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Eggert To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] * NEWS: Clarify _TIME_BITS change. X-Act-Checkin: glibc X-Git-Author: Paul Eggert X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 08cbcd4dbc686bb38ec3093aff2f919fbff5ec17 X-Git-Newrev: ac3babc3944ee6b37bcd0dabaa0b778fb942d4aa Message-Id: <20210625041245.E10B73886C4E@sourceware.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 04:12:41 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Glibc-cvs mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 04:12:46 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=ac3babc3944ee6b37bcd0dabaa0b778fb942d4aa commit ac3babc3944ee6b37bcd0dabaa0b778fb942d4aa Author: Paul Eggert Date: Thu Jun 24 21:12:19 2021 -0700 * NEWS: Clarify _TIME_BITS change. Diff: --- NEWS | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48d77d706f..b24ebf9898 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ 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 currently unchanged. +* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t + is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on + these configurations, this default may change in future versions. 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.