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Re: [RFC][PATCH v3 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> 18.10.2016 17:08 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > __strftime_l and __wcsftime_l are also public exports, also used by
> > libstdc++, so also need compatibility.
>
> Technically I can provide it, together with __nl_langinfo_l, but
> are you sure it will be useful for libstdc++? My concern is that
The presumption is that public functions need to stay compatible unless
shown otherwise. You could analyse what libstdc++ does, but that wouldn't
resolve the question of any other libraries that might use these functions
for namespace reasons and also need such compatibility (cf today's
discussion of how we should systematically provide such
implementation-namespace versions of more functions for use by system
libraries).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com