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From: Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: [COMMITTED] Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:18:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201016181828.1312500-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201015130632.90961-2-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>

---
 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
-- 
2.25.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-16 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-15 13:06 [PATCH 1/3] linux: Fix time64 support for futimesat Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-15 13:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] Move ftime to a compatibility symbol Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-16  9:05   ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-16 18:18   ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha [this message]
2020-10-19  7:55   ` Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19  8:17     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-19  8:30     ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19  9:18       ` Tamar Christina via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19  9:51         ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 10:20           ` Tamar Christina via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 10:46             ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 10:49   ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 11:56     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-19 11:58       ` Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 12:30         ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 12:31           ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-19 17:56     ` Joseph Myers
2020-10-15 13:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] linux: Add 64-bit time_t support for wait3 Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-15 14:43   ` Alistair Francis via Libc-alpha
2020-10-16  9:14   ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-16 17:02     ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha
2020-10-18 19:55       ` Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-16  8:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] linux: Fix time64 support for futimesat Lukasz Majewski
2020-10-16 14:20   ` Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha

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