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Re: [RFC][PATCH v5 01/13] Implement alternative month names (bug 10871).
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Rafal Luzynski
<digitalfreak@lingonborough.com> wrote:
> 30.12.2016 14:00 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>>
>> > This patch defines the new constants ALTMON_1 .. ALTMON_12 which allow
>> > for defining the alternative month forms where required.
>>
>> I don't see anything here to address the namespace issue (that no existing
>> version of POSIX permits those names to be visible in langinfo.h, so only
>> implementation-namespace names for those symbols may be visible unless
>> __USE_GNU, much as with the existing __USE_GNU conditionals in that
>> header).
>
> I think you refer to this post: [1]. I thought we could treat this
> future POSIX change [2] as if it had been existing now. But if not,
> especially if it can be reworked in future once the change is accepted
> as part of POSIX, then I'm OK with this requirement.
We don't like to jump the gun on these things. Note that that
proposal has been "approved" since 2010 but still hasn't been
officially published - there's no good way to predict how much longer
it will take.
Please put the constants under __USE_GNU for now. They can be changed
to __USE_XOPENwhatever in a patch release after we know what goes in
"whatever".
zw