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Re: 2.29 freeze update: Last fortnight
- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:02:11 -0500
- Subject: Re: 2.29 freeze update: Last fortnight
- References: <05ad17bc-be3b-5bfb-a80b-6f2a85528974@gotplt.org> <2111495405.10604.1547571179024@poczta.nazwa.pl>
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:53 AM Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> Hi Siddhesh,
>
> 15.01.2019 15:37 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > How is the progress on the strftime change? It would be nice to wrap it
> > up this week so that we can declare a hard freeze for the last week.
>
> We need 2 things:
>
> 1. There are documentation changes which I hesitate to review because
> I think this should be done by a native English speaker (or anyone
> having equivalently perfect knowledge of English language).
I can review them if you reply to this email with the archive URL(s)
of the most recent version(s) of the documentation patch(es).
> 2. I still don't understand why the newly added argument of
> __strftime_internal yr_spec is of the type "int *" rather than just
> "int". Maybe it is correct and the reason is that I have not
> analyzed it carefully enough. I'm sorry, I am unable to analyze
> it more carefully this week.
Unfortunately I don't know enough about the guts of strftime to help
with this part.
zw