a _REDIR_TIME64 macro is introduced, which the arch's alltypes.h is expected to define, to control redirection of symbol names for interfaces that involve time_t and derived types. this ensures that object files will only be linked to libc interfaces matching the ABI whose headers they were compiled against. along with time32 compat shims, which will be introduced separately, the redirection also makes it possible for a single libc (static or shared) to be used with object files produced with either the old (32-bit time_t) headers or the new ones after 64-bit time_t switchover takes place. mixing of such object files (or shared libraries) in the same program will also be possible, but must be done with care; ABI between libc and a consumer of the libc interfaces is guaranteed to match by the the symbol name redirection, but pairwise ABI between consumers of libc that define interfaces between each other in terms of time_t is not guaranteed to match. this change adds a dependency on an additional "GNU C" feature to the public headers for existing 32-bit archs, which is generally undesirable; however, the feature is one which glibc has depended on for a long time, and thus which any viable alternative compiler is going to need to provide. 64-bit archs are not affected, nor will future 32-bit archs be, regardless of whether they are "new" on the kernel side (e.g. riscv32) or just newly-added (e.g. a new sparc or xtensa port). the same applies to newly-added ABIs for existing machine-level archs.
this header is XSI-shaded itself and thus does not need to limit specific content to _XOPEN_SOURCE.
placing the opening brace on the same line as the struct keyword/tag is the style I prefer and seems to be the prevailing practice in more recent additions. these changes were generated by the command: find include/ arch/*/bits -name '*.h' \ -exec sed -i '/^struct [^;{]*$/{N;s/\n/ /;}' {} + and subsequently checked by hand to ensure that the regex did not pick up any false positives.
these are poorly designed (illogical argument order) and even poorly implemented (brace issues) on glibc, but unfortunately some software is using them. we could consider removing them again in the future at some point if they're documented as deprecated, but for now the simplest thing to do is just to provide them under _GNU_SOURCE.
previously: timersub(&now, t, &diff); warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
this function is obsolete, however it's available as a syscall and as such qemu userspace emulation tries to forward it to the host kernel.
the old behavior of exposing nothing except plain ISO C can be obtained by defining __STRICT_ANSI__ or using a compiler option (such as -std=c99) that predefines it. the new default featureset is POSIX with XSI plus _BSD_SOURCE. any explicit feature test macros will inhibit the default. installation docs have also been updated to reflect this change.
to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99 compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form [restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.
patch by Isaac Dunham. matched closely (maybe not exact) to glibc's idea of what _BSD_SOURCE should make visible.