TR 24731-2 (dynamic allocation functions) as API source

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Joseph Myers wrote:
> > (There was at least one instance of demand for TS 18661-1 roundeven:
> 
> While we're listing APIs glibc should have, I'll mention the NetBSD-inspired
> API for thread-safe access to time zone data, consisting of the new type
> timezone_t and the new functions tzalloc, tzfree, localtime_rz, and mktime_z,
> all declared in <time.h>. GNU Emacs and some other GNU apps use this API, and

I consider those appropriate for glibc, but a separate thread might be 
best for building consensus on them.

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Joseph S. Myers
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