changeset 18341:8d26ac570cf4

doc: mention glibc SSIZE_MAX buglet * doc/posix-headers/limits.texi (limits.h): Document the bug.
author Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
date Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:42:40 +0200
parents ec48ad192f8f
children d8976fc3b67c
files ChangeLog doc/posix-headers/limits.texi
diffstat 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/ChangeLog	Mon Jul 04 09:10:59 2016 +0200
+++ b/ChangeLog	Wed Jul 13 11:42:40 2016 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-07-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+	doc: mention glibc SSIZE_MAX buglet
+	* doc/posix-headers/limits.texi (limits.h): Document the bug.
+
 2016-07-04  Martin Kletzander  <mkletzan@redhat.com>
 
 	printf-posix: Fix mingw build
--- a/doc/posix-headers/limits.texi	Mon Jul 04 09:10:59 2016 +0200
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/limits.texi	Wed Jul 13 11:42:40 2016 +0200
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 The macros @code{WORD_BIT}, @code{LONG_BIT} are not defined on some platforms:
 glibc 2.11 without @code{-D_GNU_SOURCE}, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
+The macro @code{SSIZE_MAX} has the wrong type,
+albeit with the correct value:
+glibc 2.24.
+@item
 The macro @code{SSIZE_MAX} is not defined on some platforms:
 MSVC 9.
 @end itemize