From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:06 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.33~370
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6fa3170997b4af0a702eebdae7e4d3c57d74b65;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git

Add NEWS entry for ftime compatibility move
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e84c39aeb19..6eb577a669e 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