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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Support ABALTMON_* constants
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Rical Jasan <ricaljasan at pacific dot net>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 14:48:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Support ABALTMON_* constants
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On 01/20/2018 03:24 AM, Rical Jasan wrote:
> This provides the ABALTMON_* constants in langinfo.h, conditionalized on
> __USE_GNU, and updates uses of _NL_ABALTMON_* accordingly.
> Documentation is updated, as well as the NEWS entry.
>
> This patch is based on Rafal's alternate month name patchset.
>
> I understand this probably won't go in at this point, but I still wrote
> it like it was going to, in case we did want to provide the ABALTMON
> constants at the same time as ALTMON. The patch seems straightforward,
> but aside from passing a build and not introducing new testsuite
> failures, I'm not sure what else I can test right now.
I think this should go into 2.28 when it opens, and that the Austin group
should be told that in 6 months time we will make them official as 2.28
is released. That way we give them time, and we take the lead on defining
useful interfaces for such users that need them.
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Cheers,
Carlos.