From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate 32-bit off_t support
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:58:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1jkpojo.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <412315d3-73df-3e8b-e3a0-da21fb29d396@gotplt.org> (Siddhesh Poyarekar's message of "Fri, 4 Jan 2019 18:20:28 +0530")
* Siddhesh Poyarekar:
> On 04/01/19 6:15 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
>> On 04/01/19 6:09 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>>> index cc20102fda..2f601c6217 100644
>>> --- a/NEWS
>>> +++ b/NEWS
>>> @@ -85,6 +85,15 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other
>>> changes affecting compatibility:
>>> as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are
>>> annotated with
>>> __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
>>> +* A future release of glibc will use a 64-bit off_t type on all
>>
>> Wouldn't it be clearer to fix the 'future release' to a specific
>> timeline, say, 2.31 (to give a year+ to change offending code) so
>> that this doesn't sound like a vague threat and there's actually a
>> time bound for people to work with?
2.31 sounds okay to me. 2.30 would work for me as well. What do others
think?
> Oh, and a warning under #if _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 32 that warns about
> the deprecation?
Due to -Werror, that alone would be rather disruptive. It's too late to
add this for 2.29, too.
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-04 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-04 12:39 [PATCH] Deprecate 32-bit off_t support Florian Weimer
2019-01-04 12:45 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2019-01-04 12:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2019-01-04 12:58 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-01-04 16:13 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2019-01-04 16:39 ` Joseph Myers
2019-01-04 13:15 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-01-04 13:46 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2019-01-07 18:25 ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-07 22:17 ` Joseph Myers
2019-01-08 0:06 ` Paul Eggert
2019-01-08 8:08 ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-17 21:29 ` Guillem Jover
2019-01-18 10:09 ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-18 14:11 ` Adhemerval Zanella
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