[glibc] Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
Adhemerval Zanella
azanella@sourceware.org
Fri Oct 16 18:17:22 GMT 2020
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=d6fa3170997b4af0a702eebdae7e4d3c57d74b65
commit d6fa3170997b4af0a702eebdae7e4d3c57d74b65
Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Date: Fri Oct 16 15:16:06 2020 -0300
Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
Diff:
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e84c39aeb1..6eb577a669 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
Instead, the default implementation is used.
+* The deprecated <sys/timeb.h> header and the ftime function have been
+ removed. To support old binaries, the ftime function continue to exist
+ as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it). All
+ programs should use gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
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