From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@3adev.fr>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Y2038: make __tz_convert compatible with 64-bit-time
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29ea05e7-d4b0-876a-bf39-29ecf7bfa3da@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180614195149.60f6114d@athena>
On 06/14/2018 10:51 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> The asymmetry (that ctime and ctime_r are only declared in time/time.h
> whereas localtime, localtime_r, gmtime and gmtime_r are declared both in
> include/time.h as well as time/time.h) existed before my patches, and I
> do not know the reason.
I suspect it's because time/time.h is intended to be public (copied to
/usr/include/time.h) whereas include/time.h is merely private to glibc.
Since ctime and ctime_r are not useful internally (they are
specializations of strftime that are standardized only because of
inertia: 7th Edition Unix had ctime but not strftime), there is no need
for private declarations of ctime and ctime_r in include/time.h because
glibc code never calls these functions.
Given all that, why bother defining __ctime64 and __ctime64_r in
include/time.h? glibc code never calls these functions so these #defines
can be localized to time/ctime.c and time/ctime_r.c respectively, with a
comment explaining why the #defines are local.
Also, isn't glibc a bit busted in this area? ctime_r is not part of
standard C, so why isn't ctime_r treated like asctime_r, with a weak
alias? Isn't this a (separate) bug that needs to be fixed, so that the
resulting weak alias is like the one for localtime_r as far as 64-bit
times is concerned?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-14 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-14 13:51 [PATCH v2 0/2] Y2038 support batch 1 - __time64_t and __tz_convert Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV)
2018-06-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Y2038: Add 64-bit time for all architectures Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV)
2018-06-14 13:57 ` Joseph Myers
2018-06-14 18:51 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2018-06-14 16:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-14 17:52 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2018-07-30 5:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2018-07-30 5:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2018-06-14 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Y2038: make __tz_convert compatible with 64-bit-time Albert ARIBAUD (3ADEV)
2018-06-14 17:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-14 17:52 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2018-06-14 18:52 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-06-14 19:40 ` Joseph Myers
2018-06-16 14:03 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2018-06-16 14:23 ` Paul Eggert
2018-06-16 18:21 ` Albert ARIBAUD
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