[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 2/3] Port to NetBSD when using GCC_DEBUG_FLAGS or defining time_tz.
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Sat Aug 16 10:34:27 UTC 2014
On Aug 16, 1:22am, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 2/3] Port to NetBSD when using GCC_DEBUG
| Alan Barrett wrote:
|
| > That should be tz_posix2time, not tz_time2posix.
|
| Thanks, fixed in the obvious way with the attached revised patch to the
| tz code.
|
| > More generally, it would be nice to know what went wrong on NetBSD.
|
| The same thing that goes wrong on any platform if one wants to
| portability-test the tz code by compiling it with -Dtime_tz='uintmax_t'
| (say): the prototypes in <time.h> which use time_t='long' (say) conflict
| with with the altered prototypes localtime.c wants to use internally
| which use time_t='uintmax_t'. Unlike most other platforms, recent
| versions of NetBSD declare a posix2time prototype in <time.h>, so NetBSD
| needs a workaround for the posix2time clash even though most platforms
| don't.
|
| The motivation for all this is to add support for NetBSD-style
| localtime_rz, mktime_z, tzalloc, and tzfree, along the lines suggested
| by Christos Zoulas in
| <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2010-September/016435.html>. These
| functions have been added to NetBSD. I've found some problems with the
| NetBSD API and plan to propose a simpler API here soon, which is binary
| compatible with a subset of NetBSD's. If it works out maybe we can get
| it into POSIX.
|
| I'll CC: this to Christos to give him a heads-up.
That's great. You might also consider to add the patch that add glibc
compatibility for queries during the tz transition time
(the -DNO_ERROR_IN_DST_GAP code), so that people who want to replace the
glibc implementation with tzcode get 100% compatibility. Note that
I am not advocating turning on this define by default; I have not done
it for NetBSD.
christos
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