doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues

* doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi (sys/types.h):
* doc/posix-headers/time.texi (time.h):
Mention that glibc x32 does not conform to POSIX in a couple of
areas related to integer widths.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e600a1d..54e3b5d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2012-03-16  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues
+       * doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi (sys/types.h):
+       * doc/posix-headers/time.texi (time.h):
+       Mention that glibc x32 does not conform to POSIX in a couple of
+       areas related to integer widths.
+
 2012-03-15  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        fmal: Avoid test failure on OpenBSD 5.1/SPARC64.

diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi b/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
index 35d24c0..249571a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/sys_types.texi
@@ -23,4 +23,9 @@ MSVC 9.
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+On some platforms the types @code{blksize_t} and @code{suseconds_t}
+are signed integer types that are wider than @code{long}:
+glibc x32
+
 @end itemize

diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
index 5b23203..5291d46 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/time.texi
@@ -18,4 +18,9 @@ NetBSD 5.0
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+On some platforms the @code{tv_nsec} member of @code{struct timespec}
+is not of type @code{long}, but is of type @code{long long} instead:
+glibc x32
+
 @end itemize