On 2021-10-23 08:53:06 -0700, Scott Lurndal via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote: > On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre via austin-group-l > at The Open Group wrote: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/asctime.html > > says about asctime: > > > > The standard developers decided to mark the asctime() and > > asctime_r() functions obsolescent even though asctime() is in > > the ISO C standard due to the possibility of buffer overflow. > > asctime() is also non-reentrant; which is another reason to mark > it obsolescent.
Not all applications need reentrant functions. In any case, I don't see the point of marking it obsolescent *before* ISO C does. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
