From 064d8f91a9b51209340cb0bcf4c9627cdfca7228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 07:42:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document the problem of the per-thread locale functions on z/OS. * doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi: Document the z/OS problem. * doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi: Likewise. --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi | 4 ++++ doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi | 4 ++++ doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi | 4 ++++ doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi | 4 ++++ 5 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 48ab97b0d8..dece3712e5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2019-12-20 Bruno Haible + + doc: Document the problem of the per-thread locale functions on z/OS. + * doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi: Document the z/OS problem. + * doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi: Likewise. + * doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi: Likewise. + * doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi: Likewise. + 2019-12-20 Bruno Haible localename, gettext: Fix host_os value for z/OS. diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi b/doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi index 4b2ac3e900..2fc98418cd 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/duplocale.texi @@ -22,4 +22,8 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item This function is missing on many platforms: FreeBSD 9.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 6.1, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 2.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4. +@item +This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type is not defined +on some platforms: +z/OS. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi b/doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi index 04b9038072..a3267dc762 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/freelocale.texi @@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item This function is missing on many platforms: FreeBSD 9.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 6.1, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 2.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4. +@item +This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type is not defined +on some platforms: +z/OS. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi b/doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi index 8fc2d4f9a7..f9b623b8f6 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/newlocale.texi @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This function is missing on many platforms: FreeBSD 9.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 6.1, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 6.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 2.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4. @item +This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type is not defined +on some platforms: +z/OS. +@item This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type contains basically no information on some platforms: OpenBSD 6.3. diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi b/doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi index 809055ded1..ad11dc7cbe 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/uselocale.texi @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ This function is not documented and leads to crashes in subsequent @code{setlocale} invocations on some platforms: AIX 7.2. @item +This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type is not defined +on some platforms: +z/OS. +@item This function is useless because the @code{locale_t} type contains basically no information on some platforms: OpenBSD 6.3. -- 2.39.5