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Re: TR 24731-2 (dynamic allocation functions) as API source
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 11:43:25 +0000
- Subject: Re: TR 24731-2 (dynamic allocation functions) as API source
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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
joseph@codesourcery.com