summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/misc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2015-08-05 22:35:28 -0400
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2015-08-05 22:38:22 -0400
commita03ba3630548d74920884dd12442d9937ad47072 (patch)
treee6605f7255afdc4b73449fc6680e9e2ed67f651e /misc
parentbb1d31d06e400a42da4435e8649bb7a1451ef682 (diff)
Correct comments about the history of <regexp.h>
In the "Kill regexp.h" thread, Joseph dug up more accurate information about exactly which editions of the Single Unix Standard included and deprecated this header.
Diffstat (limited to 'misc')
-rw-r--r--misc/regexp.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/misc/regexp.h b/misc/regexp.h
index 346098945d..42394f78cf 100644
--- a/misc/regexp.h
+++ b/misc/regexp.h
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@
#ifndef _REGEXP_H
#define _REGEXP_H 1
-/* The contents of this header file were standardized in the
- Single Unix Specification, Version 2 (1997) but marked as
- LEGACY; new applications were already being encouraged to
- use <regex.h> instead. POSIX.1-2001 removed this header.
+/* The contents of this header file were originally standardized in
+ the Single Unix Specification, Issue 3 (1992). In Issue 4 (1994)
+ the header was marked as TO BE WITHDRAWN, and new applications
+ were encouraged to use <regex.h> instead. It was officially
+ withdrawn from the standard in Issue 6 (aka POSIX.1-2001).
This header is provided only for backward compatibility.
It will be removed in the next release of the GNU C Library.