proposed changes to eliminate P macro

[Steven R. Loomis]

The patch worked  for me, I did "patch < patch.txt" against  
tzcode2007h and fed it each filename in sequence. Compiled fine as well.

The patch did look a bit strange, as to the filename format.

-s

On 09 Nov 2007, at 20:51, Jonathan Leffler wrote:

>
>
> On Nov 8, 2007 6:26 AM, Arthur David Olson  
> <olsona at elsie.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
> Here are proposed changes to eliminate the "P" macro from time zone  
> source
> (a first step in simplifying the code by assuming C99 compilers).
>
>                                --ado
>
> I tried to apply this as a patch and run into two problems.
> The file names are not readily obvious to the patch program; the  
> names it sees are /tmp/geta13002 and /tmp/getb13002 etc, rather than  
> (say) date.c.
> There should be a 2 characters (eg two blanks, or "! " or "+ ") at  
> the start of each line, but by the time Gmail gets the message,  
> there's a blank missing at the start of lines such as the #ifndef  
> lines at the start of the patch below.  I also had some unfortunate  
> line-wrapping, but I'm willing to blame that on the (other) email  
> program I use.
> I tried manually fixing up the patch file for the line starts, but  
> was not successful.
>
>
> ------- date.c -------
> *** /tmp/geta13002      Thu Nov  8 09:23:34 2007
> --- /tmp/getb13002      Thu Nov  8 09:23:34 2007
> ***************
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