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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28
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10Major new features:
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12* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
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15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
16 fMxaddfNx functions.
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18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
19 fMxsubfNx functions.
20
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21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
22 fMxmulfNx functions.
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24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
25 fMxdivfNx functions.
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27* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
28 Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
29 alternative month names.
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31* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
32 patches.
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34Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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36* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
37 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
38 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
39
40* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
41 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
42 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
43 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
44 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
45 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
46
47* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
48 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
49 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
50 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
51 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
52 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
53 (Bug #1190.)
54
55* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
56 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
57 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
58 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
59 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
60 further explanation.
61
62 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
63 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
64 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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66* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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68* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
69 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
70 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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72* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
73 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
74 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
75 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
76
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77* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
78 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
79 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
80 for this function instead.
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82Changes to build and runtime requirements:
83
84 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
85
86Security related changes:
87
88 [Add security related changes here]
89
90The following bugs are resolved with this release:
91
92 [The release manager will add the list generated by
93 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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96Version 2.27
97
98Major new features:
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100* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
101 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 102 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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103 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
104 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
105 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
106 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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107 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
108 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 110* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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111 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
112 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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114* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
115
4cf82d23 116* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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118* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
119 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
120 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
121 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
122 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
123 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
124 from a security and performance perspective.
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126* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
127 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
128 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
129 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
130
81325b12 131* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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132 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
133 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
134 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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135 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
136
a23aa5b7 137* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 138 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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139 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
140 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
141 _Float128.
142
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143* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
144 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
145 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 147* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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149* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
150 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
151 pkey_get.
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153* The copy_file_range function was added.
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155* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
156
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157* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
158 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
159 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
160
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161* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
162 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
163 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
164 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
165 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
166 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
167 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
168
169 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
170 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
171 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
172 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
173 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
174 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
175 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
176
177 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
178 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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179 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
180 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
181 respectively.
182
183 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
184 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
185 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
186 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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188 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
189 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
190 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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192 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
193 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 194 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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196* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
197 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
198 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
199
200 - rv64imac lp64
201 - rv64imafdc lp64
202 - rv64imafdc lp64d
203
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204Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
205
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206* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
207 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 208 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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209 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
210 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
211 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
212 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
213 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
214 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
215 fix this.
216
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217* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
218 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
219 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
220
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221* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
222 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
223 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
224 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
225 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
226 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
227 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
228 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
229 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
230 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
231 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
232 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
233 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
234 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
235 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
236 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
237 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
238 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
239 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
240 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
241 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
242 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
243 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
244 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
245 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
246 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
247
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248* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
249 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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251* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
252 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
253 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
254 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
255 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
256 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
257 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
258
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259* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
260 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
261 exp10l for these functions instead.
262
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263* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
264 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
265 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
266
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267* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
268 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
269 ignored.
270
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271* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
272 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
273 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
274 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
275
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276* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
277 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
278
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279* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
280 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
281
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282* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
283 programs.
284
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285* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
286
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287* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
288 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
289 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
290 instead.
291
292 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
293 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
294 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
295 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
296 use, but predates the bits convention.
297
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298Changes to build and runtime requirements:
299
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300* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
301 subdirectory.
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303Security related changes:
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305 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
306 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
307 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
308 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
309 script.)
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311 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
312 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
313 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
314 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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316 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
317 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
318 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
319 of service.
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321 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
322 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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323 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
324
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325 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
326 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
327 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
328 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
329
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330 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
331 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
332 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
333 Qualys.
334
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335 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
336 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
337 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
338 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
339 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
340
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341 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
342 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
343 current directory.
344
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345 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
346 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
347 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
348
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349 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
350 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
351 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
352
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353 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
354 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
355 small, instead of NULL.
356
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357The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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359 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
360 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
361 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
362 locale
363 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
364 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
365 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
366 cases
367 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
368 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
369 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
370 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
371 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
372 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
373 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
374 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
375 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
376 "Bangla"
377 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
378 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
379 width Latin characters
380 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
381 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
382 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
383 letters
384 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
385 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
386 (CVE-2009-5064)
387 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
388 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
389 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
390 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
391 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
392 if malloc succeeded
393 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
394 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
395 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
396 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
397 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
398 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
399 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
400 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
401 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
402 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
403 U+309A
404 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
405 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
406 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
407 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
408 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
409 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
410 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
411 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
412 for Nicaragua
413 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
414 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
415 are not found.
416 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
417 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
418 access
419 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
420 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
421 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
422 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
423 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
424 __regcall calling convention
425 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
426 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
427 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
428 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
429 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
430 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
431 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
432 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
433 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
434 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
435 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
436 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
437 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
438 locale
439 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
440 protector=all
441 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
442 wcwidth
443 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
444 consistency check failures
445 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
446 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
447 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
448 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
449 PIE
450 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
451 locales
452 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
453 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
454 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
455 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
456 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
457 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
458 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
459 on memory allocation failure
460 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
461 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
462 the suspect)
463 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
464 default (i386)
465 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
466 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
467 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
468 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
469 instead of EAI_NODATA
470 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
471 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
472 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
473 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
474 implementation
475 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
476 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
477 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
478 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
479 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
480 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
481 allocation in syscall loops)
482 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
483 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
484 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
485 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
486 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
487 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
488 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
489 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
490 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
491 occur with -O3
492 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
493 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
494 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
495 amounts)
496 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
497 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
498 niu_NZ
499 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
500 checks
501 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
502 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
503 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
504 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
505 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
506 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
507 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
508 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
509 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
510 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
511 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
512 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
513 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
514 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
515 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
516 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
517 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
518 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
519 parsing after OOM
520 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
521 object
522 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
523 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
524 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
525 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
526 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
527 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
528 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
529 ppc64le
530 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
531 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
532 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
533 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
534 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
535 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
536 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
537 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
538 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
539 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
540 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
541 math_force_eval
542 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
543 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
544 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
545 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
546 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
547 the svid compat wrapper
548 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
549 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
550 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
551 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
552 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
553 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
554 --verbose.
555 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
556 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
557 to 2.26
558 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
559 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
560 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
561 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
562 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
563 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
564 (CVE-2017-15804)
565 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
566 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
567 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
568 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
569 failure."
570 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
571 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
572 -m32
573 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
574 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
575 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
576 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
577 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
578 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
579 inside the ASCII printable range
580 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
581 -mlong-double-64
582 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
583 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
584 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
585 Internet
586 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
587 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
588 backslash
589 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
590 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
591 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
592 heaps in an arena
593 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
594 networking interface
595 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
596 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
597 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
598 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
599 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
600 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
601 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
602 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
603 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
604 order
605 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
606 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
607 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
608 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
609 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
610 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
611 same as for Croatian
612 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
613 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
614 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
615 for initial thread"
616 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
617 SC_SSIZE_MAX
618 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
619 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
620 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
621 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
622 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
623 (CVE-2017-1000408)
624 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
625 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
626 modified in case of success
627 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
628 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
629 success
630 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
631 stack-protector=all
632 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
633 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
634 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
635 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
636 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
637 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
638 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
639 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
640 adding it on top
641 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
642 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
643 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
644 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
645 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
646 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
647 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
648 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
649 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
650 (CVE-2018-1000001)
651 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
652 elision and tunables
653 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
654 "invalid" exception
655 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
656 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
657 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
658 exception
659 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
660 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
661 power4
662 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
663 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
664 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
665 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
666 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
667 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
668 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
669 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
670 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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673Version 2.26
674
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675Major new features:
676
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677* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
678 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
679 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
680 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
681 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
682 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
683 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
684
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685* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
686 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 687 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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688 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
689 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
690 are rendered with pango, see for example:
691 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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694 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
695 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 696
2b2ccd0c 697* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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699 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
700 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
701 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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704 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
705 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
706 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
707 object are still limited to six search domains.
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709 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
710 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
711 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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713* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
714 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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716* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
717 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
718 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
719 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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721* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
722 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
723 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
724 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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726* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
727 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
728 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
729 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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732 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
733 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 735* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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736 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
737 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
738 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 740 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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742 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
743 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
744 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
745
746 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
747 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
748 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
749 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
750 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
751 interfaces should be used instead.
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753Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
754
755* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
756 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
757 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
758 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
759 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
760 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
761 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
762 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
763
764* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
765 removed.
766
767* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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770 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
771
772* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
773 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
774 default.
775
776 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
777 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
778 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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780 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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782 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
783 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
784 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
785 name service modules, to be built and installed.
786
787* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
788 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
789 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
790 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
791
792* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
793 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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796 exported by accident.
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798* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
799 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
800 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
801
802* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
803 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
804 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
805 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
806
807* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
808
809* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
810
811* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
812 free instead.
813
814* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
815 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
816
817* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
818 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
819
820* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
821 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
822 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
823 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
824 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
825 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
826 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
827 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
828
829* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
830 synced with the kernel:
831
832 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
833 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
834
835 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
836 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
837 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
838
839 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
840 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
841
842Changes to build and runtime requirements:
843
844* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
845 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
846 x86-32 and x86-64.)
847
7e368000 848* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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851 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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853 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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854 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
855 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
856 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 857 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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860
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862 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
863
864* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
865 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
866
867* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
868 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
869 (CVE-2010-3192).
870
871* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
872 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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874The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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876 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
877 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
878 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
879 fields
880 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
881 (CVE-2010-3192)
882 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
883 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
884 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
885 ld.bfd is available
886 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
887 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
888 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
889 x86 and other generic code
890 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
891 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
892 incorrect
893 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
894 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
895 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
896 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
897 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
898 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
899 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
900 resolver
901 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
902 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
903 order of 0D36 and 0D37
904 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
905 chillu characters
906 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
907 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
908 receiving data
909 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
910 whitespace
911 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
912 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
913 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
914 for Peru
915 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
916 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
917 failures consistently
918 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
919 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
920 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
921 frame-pointer on i386
922 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
923 register
924 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
925 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
926 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
927 generic c code is used
928 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
929 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
930 around 4000
931 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
932 (CVE-2017-12133)
933 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
934 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
935 with -lieee
936 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
937 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
938 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
939 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
940 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
941 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
942 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
943 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
944 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
945 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
946 remove()
947 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
948 checked for errors.
949 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
950 new posix_spawn implementation
951 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
952 leads to lower CPU frequency
953 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
954 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
955 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
956 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
957 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
958 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
959 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
960 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
961 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
962 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
963 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
964 not support gethostbyname4_r
965 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
966 switching
967 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
968 arenas
969 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
970 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
971 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
972 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
973 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
974 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
975 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
976 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
977 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
978 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
979 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
980 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
981 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
982 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
983 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
984 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
985 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
986 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
987 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
988 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
989 retry value
990 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
991 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
992 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
993 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
994 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
995 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
996 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
997 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
998 [21537] libc:
999 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1000 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1001 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1002 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1003 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1004 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1005 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1006 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1007 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1008 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1009 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1010 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1011 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1012 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1013 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1014 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1015 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1016 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1017 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1018 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1019 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1020 issue on x86-64
1021 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1022 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1023 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1024 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1025 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1026 construction
1027 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1028 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1029 between_2_3
1030 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1031 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1032 conditions
1033 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1034 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1035 Hindi Locale
1036 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1037 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1038 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1039 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1040 locale
1041 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1042 leading to relocation crash
1043 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1044 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1045 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1046 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1047 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1048 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1049 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1050 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1051 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1052 locale
1053 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1054 locale
1055 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1056 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1057 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1058 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1059 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1060 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1061 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1062 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1063 strings
1064 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1065 protector=all
1066 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1067 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1068 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1069 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1070 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1071 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1072 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1073 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1074 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1075 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1076 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1077 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1078 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1079 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1080 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1081 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1082 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1083 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1084 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1085 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1086 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1087 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1088 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1089 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1090 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1091 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1092 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1093 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1094 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1095 with unicode 9.0
1096 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1097 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1098 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1099 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1100 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1101
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1103Version 2.25
1104
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1105* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1106 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1107 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1108 Library.
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1110* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1111 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1112 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1113 the GNU C Library.
1114
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1115* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1116 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1117 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1118 the GNU C Library.
1119
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1120* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1121 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1122 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1123 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1124 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1125 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1126 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1127 will not.
1128
1129 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1130 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1131 many years.
1132
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1133* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1134 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1135 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1136
1137 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1138 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1139 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1140 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1141 problem.
1142
ec94343f 1143* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1144 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1145 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1147* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1148 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1149 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1150 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1151 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1152 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1153 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1154 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1155 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1156 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1157 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1158 WINT_WIDTH.
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1160* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1161
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1162 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1163
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1164 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1165 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1166 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1167
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1168 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1169 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1170
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1171 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1172 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1173
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1174 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1175
29cb9293 1176 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1177
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1178 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1179 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1180
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1181 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1182
eb3c12c7 1183 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1184 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1185
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1186* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1187 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1188
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1189* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1190 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1191 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1192
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1193* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1194 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1195 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1196 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1197 effects of the memory clear).
1198
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1199* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1200 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1201 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1202 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1203
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1204* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1205 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1206 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1207 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1208 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1209 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1210
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1211* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1212 have been added.
1213
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1214* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1215 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1216 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1217 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1218 as large as several megabytes.
1219
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1220* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1221 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1222 been removed.
1223
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1224* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1225 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1226 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1227 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1228 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1229 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1230 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1231
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1232* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1233 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1234 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1235 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1236
099191b1 1237* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1238 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1239 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1240 Internet.
1241
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1242* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1243 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1244 They were already unimplemented.
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1246* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1247 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1248 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1249 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1250
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1251* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1252 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1253 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1254 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1255 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1256
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1257* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1258 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1259 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1260 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1261 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1262
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1263* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1264 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1265 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1266 did not reflect that.
1267
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1268* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1269 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1270 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1271 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1272 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1273 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1274 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1275 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1276
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1277* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1278 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1279 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1280 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1281
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1282* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1283 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1284 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1285 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1286
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1287* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1288 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1289 guarantees.
1290
1291* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1292 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1293 make state changes.
1294
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1295Security related changes:
1296
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1298 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1299 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1300 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1301 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1303* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1304 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1305 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1306 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1307 (CVE-2015-5180)
1308
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1309The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1310
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1311 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1312 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1313 protector-all
1314 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1315 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1316 before it started waiting
1317 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1318 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1319 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1320 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1321 wrong type
1322 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1323 library linked with pthread
1324 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1325 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1326 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1327 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1328 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1329 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1330 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1331 when it shouldnt
1332 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1333 not
1334 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1335 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1336 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1337 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1338 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1339 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1340 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1341 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1342 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1343 termination
1344 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1345 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1346 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1347 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1348 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1349 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1350 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1351 causes a segmentation fault
1352 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1353 linking
1354 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1355 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1356 uninitialized GOT
1357 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1358 versions
1359 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1360 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1361 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1362 is always true.
1363 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1364 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1365 modes
1366 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1367 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1368 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1369 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1370 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1371 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1372 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1373 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1374 libpthread.a
1375 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1376 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1377 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1378 _res_hconf
1379 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1380 information.
1381 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1382 penalty
1383 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1384 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1385 cause transition penalty
1386 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1387 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1388 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1389 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1390 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1391 mcount.oS)
1392 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1393 Checking
1394 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1395 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1396 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1397 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1398 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1399 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1400 multi-arch
1401 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1402 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1403 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1404 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1405 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1406 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1407 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1408 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1409 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1410 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1411 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1412 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1413 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1414 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1415 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1416 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1417 glibc
1418 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1419 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1420 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1421 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1422 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1423 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1424 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1425 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1426 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1427 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1428 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1429 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1430 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1431 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1432 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1433 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1434 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1435 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1436 RES_USE_INET6
1437 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1438 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1439 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1440 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1441 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1442 wrong condition
1443 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1444 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1445 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1446 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1447 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1448 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1449 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1450 clang
1451 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1452 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1453 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1454 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1455 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1456\f
11fca961
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1457Version 2.24
1458
5b4ecd3f
JM
1459* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1460 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1461 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1462 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1463 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1464 architectures.
1465
b6ebba70
MF
1466* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1467 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1468 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1469
7584a3f9
FW
1470* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1471 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1472
b49ab5f4
FW
1473* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1474 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1475 instead of “union wait”.
1476
ced8f893
SG
1477* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1478 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1479 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1480 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1481 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1482 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1483 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1484
2ba3cfa1
FW
1485* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1486 API.
1487
b7a9b7b0
MF
1488* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1489 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1490 drop it.
6a54bcda 1491
41a359e2
RS
1492* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1493 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1494 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1495 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1496 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1497 extensions.
1498
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1499Security related changes:
1500
f5b3338d
FW
1501* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1502 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1503 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1504
4ab2ab03
FW
1505* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1506 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1507 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1508 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1509
5171f307
FW
1510* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1511 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1512 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1513
bc779a1a
FW
1514* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1515 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1516 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1517
fab38231
FW
1518* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1519 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1520 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1521 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1522
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1523The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1524
3c4f81ec
CD
1525 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1526 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1527 of MS-DOS.
1528 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1529 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1530 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1531 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1532 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1533 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1534 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1535 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1536 CLDR data
1537 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1538 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1539 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1540 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1541 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1542 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1543 romanisation
1544 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1545 and +/-
1546 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1547 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1548 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1549 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1550 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1551 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1552 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1553 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1554 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1555 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1556 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1557 all locales
1558 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1559 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1560 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1561 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1562 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1563 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1564 execute
1565 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1566 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1567 -Wsystem-headers
1568 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1569 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1570 Romanian locale data
1571 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1572 symbol
1573 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1574 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1575 language
1576 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1577 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1578 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1579 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1580 machine
1581 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1582 description
1583 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1584 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1585 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1586 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1587 when using RTLD_NEXT
1588 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1589 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1590 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1591 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1592 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1593 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1594 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1595 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1596 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1597 Excavator core
1598 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1599 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1600 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1601 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1602 double range
1603 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1604 part zero incorrect
1605 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1606 equality tests
1607 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1608 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1609 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1610 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1611 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1612 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1613 glibc-2.22
1614 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1615 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1616 'tst-numeric.c'
1617 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1618 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1619 low part
1620 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1621 result
1622 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1623 unaligned stack
1624 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1625 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1626 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1627 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1628 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1629 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1630 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1631 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1632 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1633 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1634 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1635 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1636 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1637 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1638 modes
1639 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1640 server addresses
1641 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1642 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1643 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1644 response to getaddrinfo
1645 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1646 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1647 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1648 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1649 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1650 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1651 sometimes incorrect
1652 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1653 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1654 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1655 record types
1656 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1657 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1658 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1659 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1660 (CVE-2016-3075)
1661 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1662 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1663 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1664 resolving symbols
1665 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1666 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1667 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1668 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1669 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1670 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1671 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1672 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1673 gethosts
1674 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1675 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1676 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1677 (CVE-2016-3706)
1678 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1679 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1680 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1681 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1682 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1683 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1684 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1685 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1686 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1687 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1688 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1689 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1690 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1691 executable
1692 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1693 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1694 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1695 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1696 XPG3
1697 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1698 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1699 (CVE-2016-4429)
1700 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1701 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1702 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1703 AS not supporting AVX512
1704 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1705 sNaN argument
1706 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1707 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1708 argument
1709 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1710 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1711 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1712 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1713 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1714 eax=0x80000001
1715 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1716 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1717 subnormals
1718 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1719 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1720 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1721 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1722 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1723 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1724 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1725 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1726 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1727 input
1728 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1729 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1730 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1731 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1732 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1733 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1734 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1735 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1736 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1737 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1738 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1739 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1740 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1741 double rounding
1742 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1743 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1744 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1745 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1746 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1747 (Only arm/linux)
1748 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1749 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1750 fallbacks
1751 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1752 "invalid" exceptions
1753 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1754 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1755 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1756 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1757 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1758 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1759 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1760 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1761 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1765* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1766 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1767 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1768 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1769 89, 16061, and 18568.
1770
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1771* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1772 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1773 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1774 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1775 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1776 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1777 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1778
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1779* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1780 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1781 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1782
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1783* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1784 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1785 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1786 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1787 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1788 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1789 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1790
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1791* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1792 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1793 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1794 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1795 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1796 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1797 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1798 Ericsson.)
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1800* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1801 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1802 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1803 independent of the GNU C Library.
1804
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1805* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1806 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1808* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1809 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1810 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1811 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1812 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1813 Linux kernel.
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1816 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1818* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1819 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1820 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1821 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1822 defining their own copy.
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1824* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1825 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1826 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1828Security related changes:
1829
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1830* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1831 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1832
1833* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1834 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1835 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1836 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1837 (CVE-2015-8777)
1838
1839* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1840 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1841
1842* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1843 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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1845* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1846 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1847 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1849* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1850 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1851 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1852 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1853 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1854 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1855 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1856 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1857 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1858 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1859 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1860 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1861 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1862
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1865 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1866 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1867 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1868 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1869 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1870 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1871 use `mkstemp'
1872 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1873 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1874 overflow/underflow errors
1875 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1876 overflow/underflow
1877 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1878 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1879 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1880 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1881 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1882 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1883 are not contiguous
1884 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1885 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1886 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1887 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1888 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1889 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1890 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1891 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1892 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1893 all exceptions
1894 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1895 arguments
1896 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1897 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1898 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1899 should include
1900 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1901 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1902 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1903 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1904 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1905 GNU/Linux
1906 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1907 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1908 arguments
1909 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1910 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1911 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1912 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1913 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1914 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1915 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1916 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1917 rounding results
1918 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1919 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1920 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1921 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1922 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1923 fails
1924 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1925 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1926 block boundary
1927 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1928 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1929 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1930 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1931 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1932 4.7?
1933 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1934 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1935 (related to lock elision)
1936 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1937 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1938 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1939 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1940 (CVE-2015-8779)
1941 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1942 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1943 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1944 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1945 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1946 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1947 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1948 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1949 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1950 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1951 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1952 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1953 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1954 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1955 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1956 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1957 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1958 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1959 contains a vector instruction exception.
1960 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1961 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1962 locales
1963 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1964 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1965 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1966 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1967 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1968 missing break ?
1969 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1970 32bit processes
1971 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1972 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1973 infinity
1974 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1975 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1976 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1977 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1978 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1979 be forced unloaded
1980 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1981 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1982 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1983 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1984 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1985 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1986 statically too large
1987 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1988 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1989 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1990 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1991 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1992 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1993 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1994 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1995 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1996 FUTEX_SHARED
1997 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1998 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1999 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2000 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2001 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2002 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2003 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2004 opendir()
2005 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2006 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2007 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2008 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2009 signgam
2010 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2011 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2012 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2013 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2014 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2015 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2016 dependencies
2017 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2018 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2019 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2020 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2021 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2022 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2023 (CVE-2015-8776)
2024 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2025 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2026 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2027 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2028 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2029 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2030 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2031 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2032 contention
2033 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2034 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2035 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2036 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2037 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2038 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2039 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2040 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2041 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2042 rounding modes
2043 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2044 ILP32
2045 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2046 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2047 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2048 threshold
2049 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2050 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2051 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2052 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2053 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2054 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2055 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2056 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2057 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2058 pthread_setaffinity_np
2059 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2060 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2061 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2062 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2063 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2064 prelink
2065 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2066 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2067 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2068 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2069 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2070 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2071 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2072 bits/mathcalls.h
2073 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2074 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2075 for C99-based standards
2076 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2077 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2078 math-only
2079 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2080 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2081 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2082 disabled
2083 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2084 "inexact" exceptions
2085 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2086 arguments
2087 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2088 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2089 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2090 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2091 rules
2092 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2093 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2094 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2095 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2096 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2097 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2098 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2099 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2100 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2101 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2102 from 32bit
2103 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2104 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2105 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2106 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2107 subnormals
2108 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2109 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2110 error on 32-bit architectures
2111 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2112 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2113 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2114 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2115 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2116 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2117 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2118 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2119 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2120 -Os
2121 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2122 CPU's.
2123 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2124 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2125 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2126 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2127 architectures
2128 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2131
2132* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2133
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2135 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2136 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2137 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2138 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2139 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2140 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2141 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2142 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2143 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2144 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2145 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2146 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2147 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2148 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2149 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2150 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2151 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
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2152 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2153 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2154
f7fba805
SL
2155* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2156 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2157
2959eda9
AS
2158* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2159 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2160 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2161 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2162 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2163 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2164
42261ad7
FW
2165* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2166 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2167 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2168 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2169 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2170
afcd9480
AM
2171* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2172 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2173 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2174
4a4839c9
AO
2175* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2176 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2177 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2178 17998.
2179
b13b96ca
AS
2180* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2181 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2182 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2183
2184* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2185 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2186 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2187 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2188 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2189 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2190 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2191 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2192
2193* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2194 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2195 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2196 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2197
2198* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2199 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2200 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2201
2202* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2203 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2204
2205* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2206 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2207 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2208
a03ba363 2209 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2210 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2211 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2212\f
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2213Version 2.21
2214
2215* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2216
042e1521 2217 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2218 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2219 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2220 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2221 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2222 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2223 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2224 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2225 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2226 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2227 17892.
2228
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FW
2229* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2230 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2231 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2232 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2233 intended.
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CD
2234
2235* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2236 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2237 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2238 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2239 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2240 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2241
522e6ee3
CLT
2242* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2243
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AZ
2244* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2245 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2246 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2247
8d2c0a59
AZ
2248* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2249 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2250 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2251 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2252 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2253 effects being visible outside transactions.
2254
dc400d7b
RE
2255* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2256 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2257
0f9dfe04
L
2258* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2259
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2260* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2261 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2262 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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2263 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2264 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2265
a5357b7c
JL
2266* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2267 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2268
e54db0ea
AM
2269* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2270 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2271 format.
11e3417a 2272
4863355a
JM
2273* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2274 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2275 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2276
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JM
2277* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2278 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2279
0d560bbf 2280* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2281
2282* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2283 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2284 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2285 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2286
2287* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2288 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2289
2290* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2291 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2292 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2293 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2294 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2295 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2296 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2297 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2298 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2299 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2300 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2301 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2302 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2303
2304 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2305 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2306 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2307 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2308 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2309\f
d5b396c1
AM
2310Version 2.20
2311
2312* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2313
6a9350c8
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2314 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2315 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2316 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2317 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2318 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2319 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2320 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2321 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2322 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2323 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2324 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2325 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2326 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2327 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2328 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2329
95ee7fb1
SL
2330* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2331 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2332 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2333 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2334 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2335 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2336 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2337 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2338 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2339 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2340
0961f7e1
JL
2341* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2342 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2343 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2344 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2345 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2346
f940b965
RE
2347* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2348
d0f5b3f8
JM
2349* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2350 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2351
d6fe5e58
JM
2352* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2353 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2354 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2355 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2356 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2357 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2358
464263cc
JM
2359* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2360 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2361
2362* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2363 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2364 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2365 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2366 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2367 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2368 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2369
2370* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2371
2372* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2373 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2374 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2375 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2376 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2377 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2378 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2379
2380* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2381 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2382 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2383 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2384 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2385
2386* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2387 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2388 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2389
2390* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2391 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2392 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2393 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2394
2395* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2396 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2397 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2398 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2399 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2400 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2401 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2402 additional checks.
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RM
2403
2404* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2405 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2406 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2407 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2408 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2409 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2410 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2411 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2412 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2413
2414* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2415 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2416 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2417 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2418 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2419 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2420
2421* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2422 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2423 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2424 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2425\f
2426Version 2.19
2427
2428* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2429
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JM
2430 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2431 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2432 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2433 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2434 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2435 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2436 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2437 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2438 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2439 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2440 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2441 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2442 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2443 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2444 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2445 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2446 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2447 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2448
11520a57
CD
2449* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2450 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2451
2fe16229
CD
2452* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2453 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2454 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2455 extension which uses __block.
2456
303e567a
SP
2457* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2458 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2459 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2460 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2461 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2462
141f3a77
SP
2463* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2464 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2465 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2466 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2467 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2468
2469* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2470 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2471 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2472 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2473 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2474
2475* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2476 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2477 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2478
ba0d798c
WN
2479* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2480 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2481 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2482 #15856, #15857).
2483
7cbcdb36
SP
2484* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2485 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2486
82bab04b 2487* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2488 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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c5f840fd
MB
2490* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2491
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CD
2492* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2493 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2494
3e181dda 2495* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2496
8a05c252
CL
2497* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2498
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JM
2499* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2500 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2501 for which the C library was built.
2502
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JM
2503* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2504 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2505 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2506 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2507 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2508 in the following circumstances:
2509
2510 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2511
2512 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2513 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2514
d4f66d37
JM
2515* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2516 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2517
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CD
2518* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2519 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2520
ffb89e53
AO
2521* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2522
5d29ccce
SP
2523* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2524 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2525
8b7d57cd 2526* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2527
2528* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2529
fd712ef3 2530* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2531
c688b419
JM
2532* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2533 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2534 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2535 disable some of those declarations.
2536
7011c262 2537* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
2538 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2539 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2540
2541* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2542 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2543
2544* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2545 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2546 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2547 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2548 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2549 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2550 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2551 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2552 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2553 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2554 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2555 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2556 require recompilation.
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2558Version 2.18
2559
2560* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2561
17db6e8d 2562 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
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2563 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2564 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2565 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2566 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2567 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2568 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2569 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2570 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2571 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2572 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2573 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2574 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2575 15755, 15759.
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2577* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2578 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2579 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2580 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2581 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2582 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2583
5b535ac4
AS
2584* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2585 #15078).
2586
1cef1b19
AS
2587* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2588 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2589
55e4107b
SP
2590* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2591 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2592 destructor calls to glibc.
2593
e5c74c63
SP
2594* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2595 output.
2596
2597* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2598 non-x86 architectures.
2599
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2600* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2601
2602* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2603
2604* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2605 Richard Henderson.
2606
2607* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2608
2609* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2610 Richard Henderson.
2611
2612* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2613 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2614
8cfdb7e0
SP
2615* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2616
57267616
TS
2617* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2618 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2619
c204ab28
SP
2620* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2621 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2622
0748546f
PE
2623* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2624 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2625 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2626
61dd6208
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2627* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2628 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2629 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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2630
2631* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2632 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2633 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2634 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2635 mutexes.
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2636
2637* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2638 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2639
2640* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2642Version 2.17
2643
2644* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2645
80ceeaee 2646 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2647 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2648 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2649 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2650 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2651 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2652 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2653 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2654 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2655 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2656 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2657 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2658 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2659 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2660 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2661
95b4f1b6
SE
2662* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2663
14bc93a9
JL
2664* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2665 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2666
b54eb3cb
JM
2667* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2668 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2669
7e2bd01f
MS
2670* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2671
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AK
2672* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2673 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2674 zEnterprise z196.
2675 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2676
84b3fd84
FW
2677* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2678 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2679 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2680
815e6fa3
GB
2681* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2682 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2683
400726de
MK
2684* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2685 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2686
7aab07e4 2687* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2688 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2689
15d0da8c
WS
2690* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2691 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2692
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2693* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2694 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2695 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2696 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2697
b54eb3cb
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2698* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2699 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2700
85429b1a 2701* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2702 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2703 default.
2704
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2705* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2706 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2707 information in --help and --version output.
2708
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2709* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2710 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2711 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2712
89a3ad0b
AO
2713* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2714 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2715 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2716 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2717 when the mode is enabled.
2718
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2719* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2720 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2721 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2722 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2723 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2724 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2725 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2726
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2727* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2728 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2729\f
2730Version 2.16
2731
2732* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2733
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2734 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2735 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2736 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2737 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2738 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2739 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2740 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2741 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2742 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2743 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2744 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2745 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2746 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2747 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2748 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2749 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2750 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2751 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2752 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2753 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2754 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2755 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2756 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2757
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2758* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2759 configuring glibc with:
2760 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2761 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2762 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2763
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2764* ISO C11 support:
2765
2766 + define static_assert
2767
2768 + do not declare gets
2769
2770 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2771
2772 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2773 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2774 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2775 implementation.
8d44e150 2776
74033a25 2777 + timespec_get added
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2778
2779 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2780
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2781 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2782
16dd419d
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2783 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2784
9dc4e1fb 2785* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2786
2787* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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2788
2789* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2791
2792* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2794
2795* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2796 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2797 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2798 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2799 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2800
21708942 2801* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2802 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2803 before 2.6.
83678f76 2804
edb00e4d
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2805* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2806 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2807 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2808
83678f76 2809* New locales: mag_IN
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2810
2811* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2812 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2813 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2814 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2815 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2816
2817* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2818
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2819* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2820 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2821
2822* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2823
2824* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2825 without a previously built glibc.
2826
2827* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2828 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2829
2830* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2831 now supported for ARM processors.
2832
2833* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2834 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2835 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2836
2837* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2838
2839* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2840 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2841 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2842 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2843
2844* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2845 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2846 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2847 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2848
2849* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2850 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2851 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2852 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2853 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2854
2855* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2856 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2857 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2858 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2859\f
e80fab37 2860Version 2.15
11988f8f 2861
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2862* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2863
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2864 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2865 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2866 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2867 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2868 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2869 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2870 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2871
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2872* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2874
2875* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2876 and support for initgroups lookups.
2877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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L
2878
2879* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2880 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2881
2882* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2883 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2884
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2885* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2886 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2887 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2888
d42964a0 2889* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2890 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2891
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2892* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2893 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2894 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2895
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2896* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2897 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2898
2899* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2901
2902* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2903 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2904
2905* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2906 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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2907
2908* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2909 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2910
2911* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2913
2914* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2915
2916* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2917 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2918
f0b264f1
AZ
2919* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2920 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2921
6b64057b 2922* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 2923\f
dded88cd 2924Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 2925
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2926* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2927
553149f6 2928 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2929 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2930 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2931 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2932 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2933 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2934 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2935 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2936 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2937 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2938
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2939* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2940 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2941 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2942 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2943
2944 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2945 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2946 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2947 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2948
c6489db3 2949* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2950 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2951
72d1dddb 2952* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2953 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2954
2955* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2956
2957* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2959
2960* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2961 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2962 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2963 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2965Version 2.13
2966
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2967* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2968
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2969 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2970 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2971 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2972 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2973 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2974
10b3bedc 2975* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2976
ac2b484c 2977* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2979* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2980 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2983Version 2.12
2984
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2986
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2987 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2988 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2989 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2990 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2991 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2992 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2993 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2994 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2996* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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2998* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2999
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3000* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3001
3002* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3003 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3005
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3006* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3007 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3008 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3009 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3011
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3015
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3017
3018 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3019 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3020 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3021 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3022 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3023 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3024
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3025* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3026 mkostemps64
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3027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3028
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3030 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3031
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3032* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3033 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3034
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3035* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3036
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9d36a6c4 3038 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3039 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3041
9d36a6c4 3042 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3043 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3044
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3045* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3046 strstr, strcasestr.
3047 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3048
3049* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3050 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3051
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3052* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3053 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3054
3055* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3057
3058* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3059 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3060 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3061 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3062 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3063 necessity is every process again.
3064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3065
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3066* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3067 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3068
3069* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3070 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3071
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3072* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3073 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3075
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3079
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3081
3082 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3083 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3084 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3085 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3086 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3087
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3089 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3090
425ce2ed 3091* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3093
1fdd89a7 3094* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3095 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3097* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3098 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3100* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3102
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3103* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3105
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3106* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3107 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3108
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3109* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3110 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3111
3112* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3113 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3114 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115
735be400 3116* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3117
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3119 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3120
3121* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3122 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3124
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3125* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3127
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3128* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3129 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3130 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3131 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3132 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3133 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3135Version 2.9
3136
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3138
3139 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3140 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3141 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3142 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3143 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3144
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3146 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3147
3148* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3149 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3151* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3154* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3155 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3157
3158* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3159 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3162
3163* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3164 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3166* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3167 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3168 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3169 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3170
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3171* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3172 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3174* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3175 Sinhala)
48b22986 3176 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3178* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3180Version 2.8
3181
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3182* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3183
3184 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3185 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3186 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3187 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3188 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3189 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3190 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3191
e038616f 3192* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3193
77751669 3194* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3195
3196* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3197 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3198
3199* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3200
3201* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3203
3204* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3205 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3206
3207* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3208 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3209 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3210
3211* Faster memset for x86-64.
3212 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3213
3214* Faster memcpy on x86.
3215 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3216
3217* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3218 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3220* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3221 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3223Version 2.7
3224
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3225* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3226
3227 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3228 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3229 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3230 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3231 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3232
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3233* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3234 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3235
3236* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3237
3238* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3239 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3240 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3241
3242* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3243 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3244
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3246 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3247
3248* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3249
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3250* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3251 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3252
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3253* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3254 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3255
3256* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3257 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3258
3259* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3260
3261* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3264* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3265 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3266 yo_NG.
3267
3268+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3274
3275 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3276 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3277 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3278 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3279 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3280 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3281 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3282 4702, 4858
3283
bce20b9a 3284* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3286* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3287
b21fa963 3288* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3291
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3292* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3293
3294 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3295 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3296 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3297 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3298 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3299 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3300 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3301 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3302 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3303
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3305 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3306 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3308* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3309 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3310
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3313* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3315* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3316 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3317 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3320
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3322 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3323 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3324 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3325
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3326* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3327 Ulrich Drepper.
3328
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3329* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3330
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3331* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3332 Ulrich Drepper.
3333
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3334* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3335
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3336* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3337 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3339Version 2.4
3340
3341* More overflow detection functions.
3342
3343* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3344 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3346 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3347 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3348 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3349 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3350 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3351 by Masahide Washizawa.
3352
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3353* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3354 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3356* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3357 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3358 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3359 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3361* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3362 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3363
3364* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3365
3366* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3367 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3368 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3369
3370* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3371 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3372
3373* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3374 for compatibility with some other systems.
3375
3376* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3378Version 2.3.6
3379
3380* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3381
3382 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3383 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3384 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3385 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3386 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3387 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3388
3389 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3390
3391* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3392
3393* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3395Version 2.3.5
3396
3397* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3398
3399 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3400 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3401 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3402 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3403
3404 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3407
3408* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3409 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3410
3411* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3412 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3413 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3414
3415* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3416 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3417
0325dd20 3418* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3419 efficiently.
3420 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3421
3422* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3423 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3424 handling data.
3425
3426* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3427 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3428 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3429
3430* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3431 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3432
3433* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3434 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3435 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3436 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3437
3438* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3439 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3440 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3441 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3442
3443* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3444 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3445 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3446 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3447 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3449Version 2.3.3
3450
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3451* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3452 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3453
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3454* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3455 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3456
69be6aaf 3457* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3458 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3459
3460* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3461 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3463* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3464 by Roland McGrath.
3465
c5af724c 3466* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3467 and Ulrich Drepper.
3468
3469* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3470 RFC 3484.
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3472Version 2.3.2
3473
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3474* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3475 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3476 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3477 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3478 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3479 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3480 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3481 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3482 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3483
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3484* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3485 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3486 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3487
3488* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3489
3490* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3491 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3492
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3493* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3494 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3495
52a16e58 3496* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3498* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3499 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3500
3501* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3502 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3503 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3504 of weak definition in ld.so.
3505
3506* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3507 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3508
3509* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3510 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3514* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3515 charsets.
3516
3517* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3518 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3519
bb0ec5bd 3520* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3521 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3522
3523* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3524 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3525
bb0ec5bd 3526* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3527 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3528 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3529
3530* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3531 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3532
bb0ec5bd 3533* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3534 implementation of regex.
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3535
3536* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3537 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3538
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3539* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3540 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3541
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3542* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3543 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3544 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3545
3546* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3547 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3548
3549* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3550 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3551 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3552
3553* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3554 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3555
3556* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3557 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3558 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3559
3560* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3562Version 2.2.6
3563
3564* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3565 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3566
3567* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3568 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3570Version 2.2.5
3571
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3572* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3573 128-bit long double format.
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3575* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3576 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3577
ad2e4f18 3578* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3579
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3580* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3581
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3582* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3583 as well.
3584
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3585* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3586 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3587
3588* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3590Version 2.2.4
3591
2995f70e 3592* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3593 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3594
3595* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3596 support Unicode 3.1.
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3597
3598* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3599 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3600
69d5f925 3601* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3602
69d5f925 3603* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3604 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3605 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3606
3607* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3608 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3609
3610* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3611 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3612
3613* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3615Version 2.2.3
3616
1746f2b0 3617* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3618 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3619 in float, double, and long double format.
3620
f128331c 3621* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3622 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3623 128-bit long double format.
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3625* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3626 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3627 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3628 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3629
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3630* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3631 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3632 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3633
3634* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3635 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3636
3637* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3638 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3639
3640* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3641 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3642 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3643
3644* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3645 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3646
3647* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3648 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3649
3650* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3652Version 2.2.2
3653
464d97ec 3654* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3655 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3656 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3657 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3658 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3659 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3660 other headers.
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3661
3662* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3663 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3664
3665* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3666 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3667 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3668 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3669
3670* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3671 locales. While
3672
3673 locale -a
3674
3675 only lists the names of the supported locales
3676
3677 locale -a --verbose
3678
3679 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3680 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3682Version 2.2.1
3683
3684* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3685 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3686 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3687 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3688 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3689
3690 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3691
3692 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3693
3694 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3695
3696* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3697 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3698 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3699
3700* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3701 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3702
3703* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3704 changed from the default "C" locale.
3705
3706* The usual bug fixes.
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3708Version 2.2
3709
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3710* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3711 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3712 is in progress.
3713
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3714* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3715
793bd4d9 3716* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 3717
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3718 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3719 obviously requires a database library being available.
3720
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3721* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3722
abbffdf9 3723* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3724
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3725* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3726 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3727
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3728* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3729
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3730* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3731 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3732 and Mark Kettenis.
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3733
3734 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3735 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3736 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3737
a00c3ca9 3738 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3739 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3740
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3741* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3742 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3743 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3744
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3745* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3746 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3747 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3748 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3749
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3750 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3751 structures for the wide character tables.
3752
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3753* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3754
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3755* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3756
3757* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3758
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3759* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3760 and Yutaka Niibe.
3761
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3762* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3763
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3764* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3765
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3766* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3767
3768* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3769
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3770* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3771
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3772* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3773 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3774 implemented for Linux.
3775
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3776* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3777 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3778 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3779 versions.
3780
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3781* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3782 Masahide Washizawa.
3783
8f3f1e09 3784* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3786Version 2.1.3
3787
3788* bug fixes
3789
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3791Version 2.1.2
3792
3793* bug fixes
3794
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3796Version 2.1.1
3797
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3798* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3799
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3800* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3801
407d26b7 3802* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3803
3804* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3805
407d26b7 3806* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3807
407d26b7 3808* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3809
3810* Update timezone data files.
27995311 3811
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3812* lots of charmaps corrections
3813
3814* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3815
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3817Version 2.1
3818
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3819* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3820 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3821 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3822 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3823 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3824 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3825
c84142e8 3826* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3827 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3828
1fb05e3d 3829* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3830 symbol level.
3831
3832* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3833 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3834
cbdee279 3835* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3836
3837* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3838 numbers.
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cbdee279 3840* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3841
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3842* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3843 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3844
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3845* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3846 library.
3847
e61abf83 3848* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3849 functions from ISO C 9X.
3850
3851* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3852 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3853
a5a0310d 3854* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3856* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3857
3858* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3859
440d13e2 3860* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3861
3862* Optimized string functions have been added.
3863
3864* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3865
3866* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3868* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3869 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3870
3871 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3872 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3873
0dee6738 3874 user system wall
48244d09 3875
0dee6738 3876 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3877
0dee6738 3878 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3879
0dee6738 3880 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3882 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3883
3884 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3885
3886 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3888 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3889 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3890 horribly slow.
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3892 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3893 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3895* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3896
3897* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3899* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3900 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3901
3902* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3905 Bambrough.
3906
3907* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3908 latest draft standards.
3909
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3911
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3913~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3914addseverity NEW: Unix98
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3916argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3917argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3918argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3919argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3920argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3921argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3922argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3923argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3924argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3925argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3927authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3928authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3929backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3930backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3931backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3932cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3933cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3934cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3935cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3936cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3937cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3938capget NEW: kernel
3939capset NEW: kernel
3940carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3941cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3942cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3943casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3944casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3945casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3946casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3947casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3948casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3949catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3950catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3951catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3952catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3953catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3954catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3956ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3957ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3958ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3959ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3960ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3961ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3962cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3963cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3964cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3965cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3966cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3967cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3968clearerr_locked REMOVED
3969clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3970clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3971clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3972clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3973clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3974clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3975clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3976conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3977conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3978conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3979cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3980cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3981cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3982cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3983cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3984cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3985creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3986crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3987creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3988creat64 NEW: LFS
3989csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3990csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3991csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3992csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3993csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3994csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3995csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3996csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3997csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3998ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3999ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4000ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4001ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4002ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4003ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4004des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4005ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4006endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4007exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4008exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4009exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4010exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4011exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4012exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4013fattach NEW: STREAMS
4014fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4015fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4016fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4017fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4018feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4019fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4020fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4021fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4022feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4023feof_locked REMOVED
4024feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4025ferror_locked REMOVED
4026fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4027fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4028fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4029fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4030feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4031fflush_locked REMOVED
4032ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4033ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4034fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4035fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4036fileno_locked REMOVED
4037fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4038fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4039fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4040fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4041fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4042fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4043fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4044fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4045fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4046fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4047fopen64 NEW: LFS
4048fputc_locked REMOVED
4049fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4050fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4051freopen64 NEW: LFS
4052fseeko NEW: Unix98
4053fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4054fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4055fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4056fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4057ftello NEW: Unix98
4058ftello64 NEW: LFS
4059ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4060ftw64 NEW: LFS
4061fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4062gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4063gamma_r REMOVED
4064gammaf_r REMOVED
4065gammal_r REMOVED
4066getchar_locked REMOVED
4067getdate NEW: Unix98
4068getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4069getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4070getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4071getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4074getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4075getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4076getutxent NEW: Unix98
4077getutxid NEW: Unix98
4078getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4079glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4080globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4081gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4082gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4083grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4084host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4085iconv NEW: iconv
4086iconv_close NEW: iconv
4087iconv_open NEW: iconv
4088if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4089if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4090if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4091if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4092in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4093in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4094inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4095isastream NEW: STREAMS
4096iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4097key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4098key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4099key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4100key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4101key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4102key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4103key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4104key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4105key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4106llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4107llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4108llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4109llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4110llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4111llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4112log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4113log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4114log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4115lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4116lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4117lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4118lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4119lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4120lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4121lseek64 NEW: LFS
4122makecontext NEW: Unix98
4123mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4124mmap64 NEW: LFS
4125moncontrol REMOVED
4126modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4127nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4128nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4129nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4130nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4131nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4132nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4133netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4134netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4135nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4136nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4137nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4138nftw NEW: Unix98
4139nftw64 NEW: LFS
4140open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4141passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4142pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4143pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4144pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4145pread NEW: Unix98
4146pread64 NEW: LFS
4147printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4148printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4149profil_counter REMOVED
4150pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4151pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4152ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4153ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4154putc_locked REMOVED
4155putchar_locked REMOVED
4156putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4157putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4158putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4159pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4160pwrite NEW: Unix98
4161pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4162readdir64 NEW: LFS
4163readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4164remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4165remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4166remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4167round NEW: ISO C 9x
4168roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4169roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4170rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4171scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4172scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4173scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4174scandir64 NEW: LFS
4175sendfile NEW: kernel
4176setcontext NEW: Unix98
4177setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4178setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4179sighold NEW: Unix98
4180sigignore NEW: Unix98
4181sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4182sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4183sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4184sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4185sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4186sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4187sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4188sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4189statfs64 NEW: LFS
4190statvfs NEW: Unix98
4191statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4192strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4193strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4194strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4195strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4196svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4197svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4198svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4199swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4200tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4201tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4202tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4203tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4204tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4205tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4206trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4207truncate64 NEW: LFS
4208truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4209truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4210umount2 NEW: kernel
4211unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4212updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4213user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4214utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4215versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4216versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4217waitid NEW: Unix98
4218wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4219wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4220wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4221wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4222wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4223wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4224wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4225wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4226wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4227wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4228write_profiling REMOVED
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4229xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4230xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4231xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4232xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4233xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4234xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4235xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4236xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4237xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4238xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4239xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4240xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4241xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4242xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4243xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4245\f
4246Version 2.0.6
4247
4248* more bug fixes
4249
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4250\f
4251Version 2.0.5
4252
4253* more bug fixes
4254
4255* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4256
4257* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4258
4259* rewrite of cbrt function
4260
4261* update of timezone data
4262\f
4263Version 2.0.4
4264
4265* more bug fixes
4266\f
4267Version 2.0.3
4268
4269* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4270\f
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4271Version 2.0.2
4272
4273* more bug fixes
4274
4275* add atoll function
4276
4277* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4278
4279* fix math functions
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4280\f
4281Version 2.0.1
4282
4283* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4284
4285* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4286
4287* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4288 the ELF dynamic loader.
4289
4290* support for parallel builds is improved
4291\f
40a4b79f 4292Version 2.0
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4294* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4295 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4296 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4297
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4298* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4299 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4300 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4301 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4302 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4303 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4304 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4305 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4306 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4307 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4308 files in the ELF format.
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4309
4310* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4311 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4312
4313* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4314 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4315 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4316 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4317 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4318 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4319 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4320 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4321 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4322 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4323 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4325* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4326 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4327 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4328 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4329 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4330
f7eac6eb 4331* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4332 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4333 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4334 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4335 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4336
4337* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4339* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4340 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4341 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4342 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4343 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4344 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4345 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4346 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4347 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4348
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4349* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4350 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4351 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4352
4353* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4354 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4355 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4356
4357* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4358 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4359 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4360 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4361
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4362* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4363 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4364 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4365
4366* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4367 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4368 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4369
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4370* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4371 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4372
f7eac6eb 4373* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4374 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4375 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4376 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4377
4378* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4379 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4380 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4381
71733723 4382* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4383 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4384 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4385 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4386 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4387 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4388 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4389 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4390
4391* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4392 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4393 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4394 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4395 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4396 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4397 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4398
4399* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4400 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4401 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4402 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4403 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4404 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4405
4406* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4407 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4408
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4409* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4410 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4411 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4413* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4414
4415* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4416 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4417 their use is discouraged.
4418
4419* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4420 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4422* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4423 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4424
4425* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4426 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4427
4428* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4429 see <dirent.h>.
4430
4431* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4432 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4433 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4434 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4435 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4436
4437* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4438 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4439 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4440 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4441
4442* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4443 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4444
4445* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4446 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4447 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4448 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4449 number generator.
4450
4451* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4452 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4453
4454* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4455 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4456
71733723 4457* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4458 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4459 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4460 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4462* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4463
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4464* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4465 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4466 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4467
4468* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4469 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4471* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4472 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4473 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4474 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4475
4476* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4477 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4478 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4479 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4480 programs already written to use it.)
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4481
4482* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4483 constants.
4484
4485* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4486 with 4.4 BSD.
4487
4488* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4489 a given effective group ID.
4490
4491* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4492 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4493 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4494 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4495
4496* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4497 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4498 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4499 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4500 doing the same thing.
4501
4502* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4503 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4504
4505* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4506 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4507
4508* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4509
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4510* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4511 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4512 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4513 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4514 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4515
4516* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4517 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4518
4519* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4520 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4521 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4522 function.
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4523
4524* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4525
4526* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4527 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4528 strings.
4529
4530* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4531 and writing the utmp file.
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4532
4533* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4534 Thorsten Kukuk.
4535
4536* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4537 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4538 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4539
4540* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4541 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4542
4543* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4544 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4545 specification.
4546
4547* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4548 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4549 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4550 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4551
4552* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4553 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4554 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4555
4556* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4557 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4558 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4559 expression matcher.
4560
4561* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4562 functionality.
4563
4564* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4565 by Ulrich Drepper.
4566
4567* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4568
4569* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4570 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4571 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4572\f
4573Version 1.09
4574
4575* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4576
4577* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4578 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4579
4580* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4581 want to put themselves in the background.
4582
4583* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4584 run without an operating system.
4585
4586* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4587 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4588
4589* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4590 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4591
4592* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4593
4594* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4595 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4596 have YP (aka NIS).
4597
4598* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4599 conventions.
4600
4601* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4602 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4603\f
4604Version 1.08
4605
4606* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4607 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4608 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4609
4610* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4611 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4612
4613* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4614 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4615
4616* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4617
4618* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4619
4620* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4621 compatibility.
4622
4623* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4624 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4625 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4626
4627* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4628
4629* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4630 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4631 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4632
4633* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4634 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4635 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4636 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4637 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4638 on a block).
4639
4640* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4641 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4642 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4643 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4644 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4645 cross-compiler.
4646
4647* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4648 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4649\f
4650Version 1.07
4651
4652* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4653 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4654
4655* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4656 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4657 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4658
4659* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4660 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4661 address of the last character written.
4662
4663* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4664 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4665
4666* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4667 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4668
4669* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4670 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4671 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4672 you dereference this pointer.
4673
4674* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4675 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4676
4677* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4678 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4679 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4680 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4681
4682* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4683 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4684 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4685 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4686\f
4687Version 1.06
4688
4689* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4690 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4691 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4692 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4693 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4694
4695* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4696
4697* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4698
4699* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4700 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4701
4702* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4703 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4704
4705* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4706 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4707
4708* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4709 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4710 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4711 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4712 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4713
4714* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4715 to the error code in `errno'.
4716
4717* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4718 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4719 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4720 malloc'd string.
4721
4722* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4723 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4724 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4725
4726* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4727 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4729Version 1.05
4730
4731* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4732 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4733 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4734
4735* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4736 characters.
4737
4738* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4739 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4740
4741* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4742\f
4743Version 1.04
4744
4745* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4746 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4747 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4748 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4749
4750* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4751 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4752 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4753
4754* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4755 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4756
4757* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4758 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4759 made itself into a shared library.
4760
4761* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4762 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4763
4764* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4765 with limited length.
4766
4767* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4768
4769* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4770
4771* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4772
4773* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4774 function for traversing a directory tree.
4775
4776* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4777 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4778 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4779 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4780
4781* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4782 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4783
4784* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4785
4786* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4787 things to your strings.
4788
4789* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4790
4791* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4792 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4793 supporting those systems.
4794
4795* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4796 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4797 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4798 configuration files.
4799
4800* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4801 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4802
4803* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4805 in <strings.h>.)
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4806
4807* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4808 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4809 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4810 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4811 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4812 required storage is not available.
4813
4814* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4815 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4816
4817* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4818 latest files released from Berkeley.
4819\f
4820----------------------------------------------------------------------
4821Copyright information:
4822
09533208 4823Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4824
4825 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4826 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4827 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4828 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4829
4830 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4831 of this document, or of portions of it,
4832 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4833 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4834\f
4835Local variables:
4836version-control: never
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