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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] feature_test_macros.7: document _TIME_BITS
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:17:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e1cc5d1-7d63-25b6-42f4-eefe6258f2de@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C02DD4E-3F55-4D7D-9D95-02B01F68A890@gentoo.org>


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On 10/13/22 20:52, Sam James wrote:
>> Am I understanding this right?  _FILE_OFFSET_BITS is required to be set for _TIME_BITS to be also set (in some archs)?  Could you please link directly to a source for that in the commit log?  They are somewhat related, but I'm quite surprised that something to do with file sizes interferes at all with something to do with time.
>>
> 
> Yes, it's shocking, but true!
> 
> I'll add a reference -- but it's in /usr/include/features-time64.h:
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/features-time64.h

O.O  Yes, it seems to also be in the glibc documentation.  Weird.

Cheers,

Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-13 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-13 18:30 [PATCH v2 1/2] time_t.3type: reference _TIME_BITS Sam James
2022-10-13 18:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] feature_test_macros.7: document _TIME_BITS Sam James
2022-10-13 18:47   ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-10-13 18:52     ` Sam James
2022-10-13 19:17       ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2022-10-13 20:57         ` Sam James
2022-10-13 19:19       ` Alejandro Colomar

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