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47b853e8 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2000-08-13 |
28f540f4 | 2 | |
6f2a8167 | 3 | Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
28f540f4 RM |
4 | See the end for copying conditions. |
5 | ||
33a934a3 | 6 | Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to |
af6f3906 | 7 | <bugs@gnu.org>. Questions and suggestions should be send to |
2eb45444 | 8 | <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. |
2e92188d UD |
9 | \f |
10 | Version 2.2 | |
11 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
12 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
13 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
14 | is in progress. | |
15 | ||
2e92188d UD |
16 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
17 | ||
793bd4d9 | 18 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 19 | |
47b853e8 UD |
20 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
21 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
22 | ||
0013b2b1 UD |
23 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
24 | ||
abbffdf9 | 25 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 26 | |
6e8afc1c UD |
27 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
28 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
29 | ||
591e1ffb UD |
30 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
31 | ||
d3436b3c UD |
32 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
33 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
34 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
2588068b UD |
35 | |
36 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
37 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
38 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 39 | |
a00c3ca9 | 40 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
d3436b3c UD |
41 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
42 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
43 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
44 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
45 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
46 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
47 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
48 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
49 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
50 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
51 | ||
52 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
53 | ||
69173865 UD |
54 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
55 | ||
56 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
57 | ||
37fb8add UD |
58 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
59 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
60 | ||
594cee6c UD |
61 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
62 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
63 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
64 | ||
594cee6c UD |
65 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
66 | ||
67 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
68 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
69 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
70 | ||
6f2a8167 UD |
71 | \f |
72 | Version 2.1.3 | |
73 | ||
74 | * bug fixes | |
75 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
76 | \f |
77 | Version 2.1.2 | |
78 | ||
79 | * bug fixes | |
80 | ||
28f540f4 | 81 | \f |
e518937a UD |
82 | Version 2.1.1 |
83 | ||
27995311 UD |
84 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
85 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
86 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
87 | ||
407d26b7 | 88 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
89 | |
90 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
91 | ||
407d26b7 | 92 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 93 | |
407d26b7 | 94 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
95 | |
96 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 97 | |
554b8800 UD |
98 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
99 | ||
100 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
101 | ||
e518937a | 102 | \f |
c84142e8 UD |
103 | Version 2.1 |
104 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
105 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
106 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
107 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
108 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
109 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
110 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
111 | ||
c84142e8 | 112 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 113 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 114 | |
1fb05e3d | 115 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
c84142e8 UD |
116 | symbol level. |
117 | ||
118 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
119 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 120 | |
cbdee279 | 121 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
377a515b UD |
122 | |
123 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 124 | numbers. |
377a515b | 125 | |
cbdee279 | 126 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 127 | |
48869012 UD |
128 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
129 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 130 | |
813f4f4d UD |
131 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
132 | library. | |
133 | ||
e61abf83 | 134 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
135 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
136 | ||
137 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
138 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 139 | |
a5a0310d | 140 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 141 | |
a5a0310d UD |
142 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
143 | ||
144 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 145 | |
440d13e2 | 146 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
cbdee279 UD |
147 | |
148 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
149 | ||
150 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
2eb45444 UD |
151 | |
152 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 153 | |
48244d09 UD |
154 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
155 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
156 | ||
157 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
158 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
159 | ||
0dee6738 | 160 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 161 | |
0dee6738 | 162 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 163 | |
0dee6738 | 164 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 165 | |
0dee6738 | 166 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 167 | |
0dee6738 UD |
168 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
169 | ||
170 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
171 | ||
172 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 173 | |
48244d09 UD |
174 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
175 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 176 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 177 | |
0dee6738 UD |
178 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
179 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
ea278354 UD |
180 | |
181 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
48869012 UD |
182 | |
183 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
20833331 UD |
184 | |
185 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
186 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
187 | ||
188 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 189 | |
62595351 UD |
190 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
191 | Bambrough. | |
192 | ||
193 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
194 | latest draft standards. | |
195 | ||
1770a20d UD |
196 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
197 | ||
48244d09 UD |
198 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
199 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 200 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 201 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
62595351 UD |
202 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
203 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
204 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
205 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
206 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
207 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
208 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
209 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
210 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
211 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
e980ca92 UD |
212 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
213 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
214 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
215 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
216 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
217 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
218 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
219 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
220 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
221 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
222 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
223 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
224 | capget NEW: kernel | |
225 | capset NEW: kernel | |
226 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
227 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
228 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
229 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
230 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
231 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
232 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
233 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
234 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
235 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
236 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
237 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
238 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
239 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
240 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 241 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
242 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
243 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
244 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
245 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
246 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
247 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
248 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
249 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
250 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
251 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
252 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
253 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
254 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
255 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
256 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
257 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
258 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
259 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
260 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
261 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
262 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
263 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
264 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
265 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
266 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
267 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
268 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
269 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
270 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
271 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
272 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
273 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
274 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
275 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
276 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
277 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
278 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
279 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
280 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
281 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
282 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
283 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
284 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
285 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
286 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
287 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
288 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
289 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
290 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
291 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 292 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
293 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
294 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
295 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
296 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
297 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
298 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
299 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
300 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
301 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
302 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
303 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
304 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
305 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
306 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
307 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
308 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
309 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
310 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
311 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
312 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
313 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
314 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
315 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
316 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
317 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
318 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
319 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
320 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
321 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
322 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
323 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
324 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
325 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
326 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
327 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
328 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
329 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
330 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
331 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 332 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
333 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
334 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
335 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
336 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
337 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
338 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
339 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
340 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
341 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
342 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
343 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
344 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
345 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
346 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
347 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
348 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
349 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
350 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
351 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
352 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
353 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
354 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
355 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
356 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
357 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 358 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
359 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
360 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
361 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 UD |
362 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
363 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
364 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
48244d09 UD |
365 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
366 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
367 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
368 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
369 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 370 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
371 | iconv NEW: iconv |
372 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
373 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
374 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
375 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
376 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
377 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
378 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
379 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
380 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
381 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
382 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 UD |
383 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
384 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
385 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
386 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
387 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
388 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
389 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
390 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
391 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
392 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
393 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
394 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
395 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
396 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
397 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
398 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
399 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
400 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
401 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
402 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
403 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
404 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
405 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
406 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
407 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
408 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
409 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
410 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
411 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
412 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
413 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
414 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
415 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
416 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
417 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
418 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
419 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
420 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
421 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
422 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
423 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
424 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
425 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
426 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 427 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
428 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
429 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
430 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
431 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
432 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
433 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
434 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
435 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
436 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
437 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
438 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
439 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
440 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
441 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
442 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
443 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
444 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 445 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
446 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
447 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
448 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
449 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
450 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
451 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
452 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
453 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
454 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
455 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
456 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
457 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
458 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
459 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
460 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
461 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
462 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
463 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 464 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
465 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
466 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
467 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
468 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
469 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
470 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
471 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
472 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
473 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
474 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
475 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
476 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
477 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
478 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
479 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
480 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
481 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 482 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
483 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
484 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
485 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
486 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
487 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
488 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
489 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
490 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
491 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
492 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
493 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
494 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
495 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
496 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
497 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 498 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 499 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 500 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 501 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 502 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
503 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
504 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
505 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
506 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
507 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
508 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
509 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
510 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
511 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
512 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
513 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
514 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
515 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
516 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
517 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
518 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
519 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
520 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
521 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
522 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
523 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
524 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
525 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
526 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
527 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 528 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 529 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 530 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
531 | \f |
532 | Version 2.0.6 | |
533 | ||
534 | * more bug fixes | |
535 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
536 | \f |
537 | Version 2.0.5 | |
538 | ||
539 | * more bug fixes | |
540 | ||
541 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
542 | ||
543 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
544 | ||
545 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
546 | ||
547 | * update of timezone data | |
548 | \f | |
549 | Version 2.0.4 | |
550 | ||
551 | * more bug fixes | |
552 | \f | |
553 | Version 2.0.3 | |
554 | ||
555 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 556 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
557 | Version 2.0.2 |
558 | ||
559 | * more bug fixes | |
560 | ||
561 | * add atoll function | |
562 | ||
563 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
564 | |
565 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
566 | \f |
567 | Version 2.0.1 | |
568 | ||
569 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
570 | ||
571 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
572 | ||
573 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
574 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
575 | ||
576 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
577 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 578 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 579 | |
d3669add RM |
580 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
581 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
582 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
583 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
584 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
585 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
586 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
587 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
588 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
589 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
590 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
591 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
592 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
593 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
594 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
595 | |
596 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
597 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
598 | ||
599 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
600 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
601 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
602 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
603 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
604 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
605 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
606 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
607 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
608 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
609 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 610 | |
71733723 RM |
611 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
612 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
613 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
614 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
615 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 616 | |
f7eac6eb | 617 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
618 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
619 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
620 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
621 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
622 | ||
623 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 624 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
625 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
626 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
627 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
628 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
629 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
630 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
631 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
632 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
633 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 634 | |
49e522bf RM |
635 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
636 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
637 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
638 | ||
639 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
640 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
641 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
642 | ||
643 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
644 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
645 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
646 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
647 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
648 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
649 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
650 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
651 | ||
652 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
653 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
654 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
655 | ||
49e522bf RM |
656 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
657 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
658 | ||
f7eac6eb | 659 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 660 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 661 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
662 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
663 | ||
664 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
665 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
666 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 667 | |
71733723 | 668 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
669 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
670 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
671 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
672 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
673 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 674 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 675 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
676 | |
677 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
678 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
679 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
680 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
681 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
682 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
683 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
684 | |
685 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
686 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
687 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
688 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
689 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
690 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
691 | ||
692 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
693 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
694 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
695 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
696 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
697 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 698 | |
28f540f4 RM |
699 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
700 | ||
701 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
702 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
703 | their use is discouraged. | |
704 | ||
705 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
706 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 707 | |
22a1292a RM |
708 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
709 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
710 | |
711 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
712 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
713 | ||
714 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
715 | see <dirent.h>. | |
716 | ||
717 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
718 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
719 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
720 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
721 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
722 | |
723 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
724 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
725 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
726 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
727 | |
728 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
729 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
730 | ||
731 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
732 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
733 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
734 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
735 | number generator. | |
736 | ||
737 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
738 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
739 | ||
740 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
741 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
742 | ||
71733723 | 743 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 744 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
745 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
746 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 747 | |
d3669add RM |
748 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
749 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
750 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
751 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
752 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
753 | ||
754 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
755 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 756 | |
c709e372 | 757 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
758 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
759 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
760 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
761 | ||
762 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
763 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
764 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
765 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
766 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
767 | |
768 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
769 | constants. | |
770 | ||
771 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
772 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
773 | ||
774 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
775 | a given effective group ID. | |
776 | ||
777 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
778 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
779 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
780 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
781 | ||
782 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 783 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
784 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
785 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
786 | doing the same thing. | |
787 | ||
788 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
789 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
790 | ||
791 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 792 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
793 | |
794 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
795 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
796 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
797 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
798 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 799 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 800 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
801 | |
802 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
803 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
804 | |
805 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
806 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
807 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
808 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
809 | |
810 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
811 | ||
812 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
813 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
814 | strings. | |
815 | ||
816 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
817 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
818 | |
819 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
820 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
821 | ||
822 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
823 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
824 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
825 | ||
826 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
827 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
828 | ||
829 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
830 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
831 | specification. | |
832 | ||
833 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
834 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
835 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
836 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
837 | ||
838 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
839 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
840 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
841 | ||
842 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
843 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
844 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
845 | expression matcher. | |
846 | ||
847 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
848 | functionality. | |
849 | ||
850 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
851 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
852 | ||
853 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
854 | ||
855 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
856 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
857 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
28f540f4 RM |
858 | \f |
859 | Version 1.09 | |
860 | ||
861 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
862 | ||
863 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
864 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
865 | ||
866 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
867 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
868 | ||
869 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
870 | run without an operating system. | |
871 | ||
872 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
873 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
874 | ||
875 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
876 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
877 | ||
878 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
879 | ||
880 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
881 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
882 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
883 | ||
884 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
885 | conventions. | |
886 | ||
887 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
888 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
889 | \f | |
890 | Version 1.08 | |
891 | ||
892 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
893 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
894 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
895 | ||
896 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
897 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
898 | ||
899 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
900 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
901 | ||
902 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
903 | ||
904 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
905 | ||
906 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
907 | compatibility. | |
908 | ||
909 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
910 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
911 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
912 | ||
913 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
914 | ||
915 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
916 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
917 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
918 | ||
919 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
920 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
921 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
922 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
923 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
924 | on a block). | |
925 | ||
926 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
927 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
928 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
929 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
930 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
931 | cross-compiler. | |
932 | ||
933 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
934 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
935 | \f | |
936 | Version 1.07 | |
937 | ||
938 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
939 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
940 | ||
941 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
942 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
943 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
944 | ||
945 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
946 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
947 | address of the last character written. | |
948 | ||
949 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
950 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
951 | ||
952 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
953 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
954 | ||
955 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
956 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
957 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
958 | you dereference this pointer. | |
959 | ||
960 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
961 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
962 | ||
963 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
964 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
965 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
966 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
967 | ||
968 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
969 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
970 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
971 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
972 | \f | |
973 | Version 1.06 | |
974 | ||
975 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
976 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
977 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
978 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 979 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
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980 | |
981 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
982 | ||
983 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
984 | ||
985 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
986 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
987 | ||
988 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
989 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
990 | ||
991 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
992 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
993 | ||
994 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
995 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
996 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
997 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
998 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
999 | ||
1000 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
1001 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
1002 | ||
1003 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
1004 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
1005 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
1006 | malloc'd string. | |
1007 | ||
1008 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
1009 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
1010 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
1011 | ||
1012 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
1013 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
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1015 | Version 1.05 | |
1016 | ||
1017 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
1018 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
1019 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
1020 | ||
1021 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
1022 | characters. | |
1023 | ||
1024 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
1025 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
1026 | ||
1027 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
1028 | \f | |
1029 | Version 1.04 | |
1030 | ||
1031 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
1032 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
1033 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
1034 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
1035 | ||
1036 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
1037 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
1038 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
1039 | ||
1040 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
1041 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
1042 | ||
1043 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
1044 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
1045 | made itself into a shared library. | |
1046 | ||
1047 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
1048 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
1049 | ||
1050 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
1051 | with limited length. | |
1052 | ||
1053 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
1056 | ||
1057 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
1058 | ||
1059 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
1060 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
1061 | ||
1062 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
1063 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
1064 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
1065 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
1066 | ||
1067 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
1068 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
1069 | ||
1070 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
1071 | ||
1072 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
1073 | things to your strings. | |
1074 | ||
1075 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
1076 | ||
1077 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
1078 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
1079 | supporting those systems. | |
1080 | ||
1081 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
1082 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
1083 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
1084 | configuration files. | |
1085 | ||
1086 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
1087 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
1088 | ||
1089 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
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1090 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
1091 | in <strings.h>.) | |
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1092 | |
1093 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
1094 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
1095 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
1096 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
1097 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
1098 | required storage is not available. | |
1099 | ||
1100 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
1101 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
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1102 | |
1103 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
1104 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
1105 | \f | |
1106 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
1107 | Copyright information: | |
1108 | ||
56ddf355 | 1109 | Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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1110 | |
1111 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
1112 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
1113 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
1114 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
1115 | ||
1116 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
1117 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
1118 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
1119 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
1120 | \f | |
1121 | Local variables: | |
1122 | version-control: never | |
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