From ac3babc3944ee6b37bcd0dabaa0b778fb942d4aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:12:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Clarify _TIME_BITS change. --- NEWS | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 48d77d706f..b24ebf9898 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ Major new features: * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the --disable-scv configure option. -* Add support for 64-bit time_t for ABIs with defaults currently unchanged. +* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t + is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on + these configurations, this default may change in future versions. This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1. -- 2.43.5