c-common.c; strftime.c; question
Arthur David Olson
ado
Thu Aug 22 17:19:01 UTC 1996
A new version of the GNU C compiler's file c-common.c is available:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/c-common.c
This version does strftime format checking against the formats recognized
by an impending release of GNU's strftime.c; as suggested by Paul Eggert,
it's also been retooled to minimize the differences between it and the stock
c-common.c (at the cost of a bit of obscureness).
Also available is
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/strftime.c
which is a first attempt at run-time strftime format checking. If the
environment variable
CHECK_STRFTIME_FORMATS_FOR_TWO_DIGIT_YEARS
is defined, strftime formats are checked at run time and diagnostics are
written to stderr about formats that produce two-digit years in all locales,
in the current locale, or in some locales.
And a year-2000 related question: might it be best to change strftime so
that "%x" yields, for example,
1996-08-22
rather than
08/22/96
as is currently true?
Feedback on the new files and the question most welcome!
--ado
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