From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:50:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: doc: some glibc x32 integer width issues
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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 e600a1d5e..54e3b5d90 100644
--- 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 35d24c0c7..249571a8b 100644
--- 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 5b2320338..5291d46e5 100644
--- 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