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Re: [RFC][PATCH v9 2/6] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).


On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> > There should be a GCC bug filed, if there isn't one already, for allowing
> > %OB / %Ob in strftime formats (with appropriate warnings in ISO C pedantic
> > modes about being an extension).  Tests may need to disable errors for
> > format warnings when built with a GCC version without that support.
> 
> I don't see any such bug in GCC bugzilla.  Would you mind filing one?

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82752 filed.

> > Also, the POSIX proposal accepted for issue 8 has strptime %Ob and
> > strptime %OB handled the same, despite that POSIX proposal not including
> > strftime %Ob.  (This is only an argument for %Ob handling for strptime to
> > go in this patch rather than the later one adding alternative abbreviated
> > months, however.)
> 
> Since the entire patch series should be pushed at once anyway, let's
> not make additional work for Rafal.
> 
> Could you point me at the accepted POSIX proposal, please?

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=258 (issue8 tag = for next major 
revision).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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