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+2011-12-04  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+           Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       tests: Avoid spurious error message on platforms without mktemp program.
+       * tests/init.sh (mktempd_): Run mktemp in a subcommand.
+
+2011-12-03  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       Fix module descriptions syntax.
+       * modules/argv-iter (License): Fix syntax.
+       * modules/di-set (License): Likewise.
+       * modules/ino-map (License): Likewise.
+       Reported by Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>.
+
+2011-12-02  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       stdalign: port to Clang 3.0
+       Problem reported by Simon Josefsson in
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-12/msg00005.html>.
+       * doc/posix-headers/stdalign.texi (stdalign.h): Mention Clang 3.0,
+       which has <stdalign.h> but which does not define alignof.
+       * m4/stdalign.m4 (gl_STDALIGN_H): Check for Clang 3.0's problem.
+
+2011-12-01  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       mktempd: silence dd usage
+       * build-aux/mktempd (rand_bytes): Silence dd.
+
+2011-11-30  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>
+
+       manywarnings: Don't mention gcc version in docstring.
+       * m4/manywarnings.m4 (gl_MANYWARN_ALL_GCC): Doc fix.  Suggested by
+       Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>.
+
+2011-11-30  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       hash: mark a few floating point constants with "f" suffix
+       * lib/hash.c (DEFAULT_GROWTH_THRESHOLD, DEFAULT_GROWTH_FACTOR)
+       (DEFAULT_SHRINK_THRESHOLD, DEFAULT_SHRINK_FACTOR): Mark literal
+       floating point constants with "f", since they're destined to be
+       saved/used as "float"s.
+
+2011-11-29  Paolo Bonzini  <bonzini@gnu.org>
+
+       float tests: Correct and re-enable assertion about LDBL_MIN_EXP.
+       * tests/test-float.c (test_long_double): Correct and re-enable the
+       assertion about LDBL_MIN_EXP that was disabled on 2011-08-31.
+
+2011-11-29  Matthew Wala  <wala1@illinois.edu>  (tiny change)
+
+       Avoid subtracting two pointers that don't point into the same block.
+       * lib/argp-help.c (hol_append): Reorder pointer subtractions so that
+       only pointers into the same memory block are subtracted. We cannot
+       assume that sizeof (ptrdiff_t) == sizeof (void *).
+
+2011-11-29  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       maint.mk: add syntax check for use of compare from init.sh
+       * top/maint.mk (sc_prohibit_reversed_compare_failure): New rule,
+       moved here from coreutils.
+
+       manywarnings: drop -Wunsuffixed-float-constants
+       * m4/manywarnings.m4 (gl_MANYWARN_ALL_GCC): C99 does not allow
+       '1.0D', which is the only way to silence this warning for 'double'.
+
+2011-11-29  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       hash: mark compute_bucket_size with the pure attribute
+       * lib/hash.c (compute_bucket_size): Use _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE.
+
+       quotearg, propername: correct pragma guard expression
+       * lib/quotearg.c: Enable pragma for gcc-4.6 and newer, not 4.3 and newer.
+       * lib/propername.c: Likewise.  Reported by Bernhard Voelker.
+
+2011-11-28  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       propername: do not mark proper_name with the const attribute
+       * lib/propername.h (proper_name): Do *not* mark as _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST,
+       since it examines data pointed to by its parameter.
+       * lib/propername.c (proper_name): Instead, add a pragma to suppress
+       the suggestion from -Wsuggest-attribute=const.
+
+       propername: mark one more function as const
+       * lib/propername.h (proper_name): Mark as _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST.
+
+2011-11-27  Jim Meyering  <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+       mark functions with const and pure attributes
+
+       Mark functions per suggestions from gcc-4.6 when using these options:
+       -Wsuggest-attribute=pure -Wsuggest-attribute=const.
+       Use gnulib's _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE and _GL_ATTRIBUTE_CONST macros.
+       Follow these guidelines: when possible, apply the attribute to
+       an extern declaration, not to its definition.  Apply it to the
+       definition only when the definition is static.
+       * lib/argmatch.h (argmatch, argmatch_to_argument): Mark.
+       * lib/argv-iter.h (argv_iter_n_args): Likewise.
+       * lib/base64.h (isbase64): Likewise.
+       * lib/basename-lgpl.c (last_component, base_len): Likewise.
+       * lib/c-ctype.h (c_isascii, c_isalnum, c_isalpha): Likewise.
+       (c_isblank, c_iscntrl, c_isdigit, c_islower, c_isgraph): Likewise.
+       (c_isprint, c_ispunct, c_isspace, c_isupper, c_isxdigit): Likewise.
+       (c_tolower, c_toupper): Likewise.
+       * lib/c-strcase.h (c_strcasecmp, c_strncasecmp): Likewise.
+       * lib/chdir-long.c (find_non_slash): Likewise.
+       * lib/dirname.h (base_len, dir_len, last_component): Likewise.
+       * lib/exclude.h (fnmatch_pattern_has_wildcards): Likewise.
+       * lib/file-type.h (file_type): Likewise.
+       * lib/filenamecat-lgpl.c (longest_relative_suffix): Likewise.
+       * lib/filevercmp.c (verrevcmp): Likewise.
+       * lib/freadahead.h (freadahead): Likewise.
+       * lib/fts.c (fts_maxarglen): Likewise.
+       * lib/hash-pjw.h (hash_pjw): Likewise.
+       * lib/hash-triple.h (triple_hash_no_name, triple_compare_ino_str):
+       * lib/hash.c (is_prime, next_prime): Likewise.
+       * lib/hash.c (hash_get_n_buckets, hash_get_n_buckets_used): Likewise.
+       (hash_get_n_entries, hash_get_max_bucket_length): Likewise.
+       (hash_table_ok, hash_get_first, hash_string): Likewise.
+       (compute_bucket_size): Likewise.
+       * lib/i-ring.h (i_ring_empty): Likewise.
+       * lib/isnan.c (isnanl): Likewise.
+       * lib/math.h (isnanl, rpl_isnanl): Likewise.
+       * lib/memcasecmp.h (memcasecmp): Likewise.
+       * lib/memchr2.h (memchr2): Likewise.
+       * lib/memcmp2.h (memcmp2): Likewise.
+       * lib/parse-datetime.y (lookup_zone): Likewise.
+       * lib/sockets.h (gl_sockets_startup, gl_sockets_cleanup)
+       [!WINDOWS_SOCKETS]: Likewise.
+       * lib/strnlen1.h (strnlen1): Likewise.
+       * lib/uniwidth.in.h (uc_width): Likewise.
+       * lib/quotearg.c: Add pragma to avoid unwarranted suggestion from
+       gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=pure for quoting_options_from_style.
+       (quoting_options_from_style): Add a comment.
+       * lib/propername.h (proper_name): Add a comment.
+
 2011-11-27  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        Remove unused macros from !_LIBC code in glibc-borrowed files.