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Re: [PATCH] Revise NEWS description of changes to gettimeofday etc.
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at sourceware dot org>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 13:40:27 +0530
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revise NEWS description of changes to gettimeofday etc.
- References: <20200108204107.8164-1-zackw@panix.com>
On 09/01/20 2:11 am, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Mostly English grammar and style improvements. The bullet list is
> reorganized a little for clarity. The details of exactly which
> Linux-based ports still report system-wide time zone information
> from gettimeofday has been removed, as this is not intended to be
> something people should rely on.
>
> Also clarify the deprecation of older SPARC ISAs, based on the fact
> that “SPARC version 7” is actually the very first version of the SPARC
> ISA (Sun Microsystems was very fond of letting the marketing
> department pick version numbers).
>
> ---
> I would normally just go ahead and push a docs-only editorial change like
> this, but I haven't been following the Y2038 work carefully since Adhemerval
> took over my patch series (thanks again, Adhemerval) so I would like to ask
> for another pair of eyes. I'll probably push this in 24 hours if there are
> no objections, since time is short.
>
This is fine.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Thanks,
Siddhesh