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diff --git a/lib/ChangeLog b/lib/ChangeLog index 2ed31513a..c292c1bac 100644 --- a/lib/ChangeLog +++ b/lib/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +2005-09-16 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * strftime.c [FPRINTFTIME] (fprintftime): Provide a new interface: + size_t fprintftime (FILE *fp, char const *fmt, struct tm const *tm, + int utc, int nanoseconds); + Background: + date should not have to allocate a megabyte of virtual memory to + handle a format argument like +%1048575T. When implemented with + strftime, it must allocate such a buffer, use strftime to fill it + in, print it, then free it. + + With fprintftime, it simply prints everything and exits. + With no need for memory allocation, that's one fewer way to fail. + * fprintftime.c, fprintftime.h: New files. + 2005-09-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * strftime.c (my_strftime): Rewrite the previous change slightly, |