strftime improvements

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi Jeff,

On Feb 18 14:49, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >So the question is, can we move the definition of __tzrule_type to a header
> >file which is accessible from Cygwin, e.g. sys/time.h or sys/types.h ?
> 
> I have no problem with moving the type into sys/types.h, but I would like 
> to suggest a further change as well.  I would like to see the definition 
> moved into a separate file with an access function (e.g. 
> __get_tzrule_ptr()) .  Each libc/time function needing access would fetch 
> the address dynamically and there wouldn't be a global variable.  If you 
> don't have time to do this, I'll do it, but it affects your code on the 
> other side in Cygwin.

it would be nice if you could do it.  I'll just match my Cygwin code
against your patch.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat, Inc.