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[COMMITTED] Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move

Message ID 20201016181828.1312500-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
State Committed
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Series [COMMITTED] Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move |

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Adhemerval Zanella Netto Oct. 16, 2020, 6:18 p.m. UTC 
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 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e84c39aeb1..6eb577a669 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@  Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
   implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
   Instead, the default implementation is used.
 
+* The deprecated <sys/timeb.h> header and the ftime function have been
+  removed.  To support old binaries, the ftime function continue to exist
+  as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it).  All
+  programs should use gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
+
 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with