Release 2023c - 2023-03-28 12:42:14 -0700
Release 2023b - 2023-03-23 19:50:38 -0700
Release 2023a - 2023-03-22 12:39:33 -0700
Changes to code
You can now tell tzselect local time, to simplify later choices.
Select the 'time' option in its first prompt.
You can now compile with -DTZNAME_MAXIMUM=N to limit time zone
abbreviations to N bytes (default 255). The reference runtime
library now rejects POSIX-style TZ strings that contain longer
abbreviations, treating them as UTC. Previously the limit was
platform dependent and abbreviations were silently truncated to
16 bytes even when the limit was greater than 16.
The code by default is now designed for C99 or later. To build in
a C89 environment, compile with -DPORT_TO_C89. To support C89
callers of the tzcode library, compile with -DSUPPORT_C89. The
two new macros are transitional aids planned to be removed in a
future version, when C99 or later will be required.
The code now builds again on pre-C99 platforms, if you compile
with -DPORT_TO_C89. This fixes a bug introduced in 2022f.
On C23-compatible platforms tzcode no longer uses syntax like
'static [[noreturn]] void usage(void);'. Instead, it uses
'[[noreturn]] static void usage(void);' as strict C23 requires.
(Problem reported by Houge Langley.)
The code's functions now constrain their arguments with the C
'restrict' keyword consistently with their documentation.
This may allow future optimizations.
zdump again builds standalone with ckdadd and without setenv,
fixing a bug introduced in 2022g. (Problem reported by panic.)
leapseconds.awk can now process a leap seconds file that never
expires; this might be useful if leap seconds are discontinued.
Changes to commentary
tz-link.html has a new section "Coordinating with governments and
distributors". (Thanks to Neil Fuller for some of the text.)
To improve tzselect diagnostics, zone1970.tab's comments column is
now limited to countries that have multiple timezones.
Note that leap seconds are planned to be discontinued by 2035.
most of these are like, eg
void foo(int[2]);
with either of these
void foo(int*) { ... }
void foo(int[]) { ... }
in some cases (such as stat or utimes* calls found in our header files),
we now match standard definition from opengroup.
found by GCC 12.
trampoline exclusively, thus relegating "sigcontext"-style handlers (which
have not been documented for many years now) to the dustbin of the compat
library.
The longjmp() function shall not cause setjmp() to return 0; if val
is 0, setjmp() shall return 1.
Fixes the _longjmp_zero and longjmp_zero test cases in the t_setjmp
test on alpha.
autoconf. Autoconf compiles simple programs like:
char symbol();
int main() { return symbol(); }
To check if the symbol is present. This makes it happy.
Another way our symbol renaming breaks things.
This fixes gdb native build, which does not find sigprocmask otherwise
and fails to build because it finds pthread_sigmask() and not sigprocmask()!
This ldexp stub will shadow the ldexp weak alias for scalbn in libm,
which is unfortunate but hard to fix properly without chasing the
mythical libc bump beast. With the change here, we should raise all
the same exceptions that libm's scalbn does -- overflow, underflow,
inexact-result, and (for signalling NaN only) invalid-operation.
This in turn should correct the missing overflow/underflow exceptions
of our portable C fma, and perhaps other routines.
XXX pullup
The new member is caled f_mntfromlabel and it is the dkw_wname
of the corresponding wedge. This is now used by df -W to display
the mountpoint name as NAME=
Not including non-renamed symbols in libc caused all kinds of configure
scripts to do the wrong thing when they just tested linkage without
including headers. So, go for the "least moving parts" bandaid for now.
thorpej