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33a934a3 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 January 1997 |
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33a934a3 | 3 | Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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4 | See the end for copying conditions. |
5 | ||
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6 | Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to |
7 | <bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. Questions and suggestions should be send to | |
8 | <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>. | |
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10 | Version 2.0.2 |
11 | ||
12 | * more bug fixes | |
13 | ||
14 | * add atoll function | |
15 | ||
16 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
17 | \f | |
18 | Version 2.0.1 | |
19 | ||
20 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
21 | ||
22 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
23 | ||
24 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
25 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
26 | ||
27 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
28 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 29 | Version 2.0 |
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31 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
32 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
33 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
34 | ||
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35 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
36 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
37 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
38 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
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39 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
40 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
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41 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
42 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
43 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
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44 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
45 | files in the ELF format. | |
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46 | |
47 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
48 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
49 | ||
50 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
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51 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
52 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
53 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
54 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
55 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
56 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
57 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
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58 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
59 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
60 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
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62 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
63 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
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64 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
65 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
66 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
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f7eac6eb | 68 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
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69 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
70 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
71 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
72 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
73 | ||
74 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
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76 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
77 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
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78 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
79 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
80 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
81 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
82 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
83 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
84 | NSS services available. | |
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86 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
87 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
88 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
89 | ||
90 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
91 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
92 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
93 | ||
94 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
95 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
96 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
97 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
98 | ||
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99 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
100 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
101 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
102 | ||
103 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
104 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
105 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
106 | ||
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107 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
108 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
109 | ||
f7eac6eb | 110 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 111 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 112 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
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113 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
114 | ||
115 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
116 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
117 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 118 | |
71733723 | 119 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
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120 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
121 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
122 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
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123 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
124 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 125 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 126 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
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127 | |
128 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
129 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
130 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
131 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
132 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
133 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
134 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
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135 | |
136 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
137 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
138 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
139 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
140 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
141 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
142 | ||
143 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
144 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
145 | ||
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146 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
147 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
148 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
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149 | |
150 | * The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address | |
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151 | of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block; |
152 | `malloc_object_allocated_size' returns the size of an allocated block; | |
153 | and `malloc_walk' lets you walk through all allocated blocks. These can | |
154 | be useful for debugging; see <malloc.h> for the interfaces. | |
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156 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
157 | ||
158 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
159 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
160 | their use is discouraged. | |
161 | ||
162 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
163 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 164 | |
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165 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
166 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
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167 | |
168 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
169 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
170 | ||
171 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
172 | see <dirent.h>. | |
173 | ||
174 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
175 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
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176 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
177 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
178 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
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179 | |
180 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
181 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
182 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
183 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
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184 | |
185 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
186 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
187 | ||
188 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
189 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
190 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
191 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
192 | number generator. | |
193 | ||
194 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
195 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
196 | ||
197 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
198 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
199 | ||
71733723 | 200 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 201 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
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202 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
203 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
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205 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
206 | ||
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207 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
208 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
209 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
210 | ||
211 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
212 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
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c709e372 | 214 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
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215 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
216 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
217 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
218 | ||
219 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
220 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
221 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
222 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
223 | programs already written to use it.) | |
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224 | |
225 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
226 | constants. | |
227 | ||
228 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
229 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
230 | ||
231 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
232 | a given effective group ID. | |
233 | ||
234 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
235 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
236 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
237 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
238 | ||
239 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 240 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
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241 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
242 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
243 | doing the same thing. | |
244 | ||
245 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
246 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
247 | ||
248 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 249 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
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250 | |
251 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
252 | ||
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253 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
254 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
255 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 256 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 257 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
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258 | |
259 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
260 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
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261 | |
262 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
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263 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
264 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
265 | function. | |
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266 | |
267 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
268 | ||
269 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
270 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
271 | strings. | |
272 | ||
273 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
274 | and writing the utmp file. | |
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275 | |
276 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
277 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
278 | ||
279 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
280 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
281 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
282 | ||
283 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
284 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
285 | ||
286 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
287 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
288 | specification. | |
289 | ||
290 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
291 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
292 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
293 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
294 | ||
295 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
296 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
297 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
298 | ||
299 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
300 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
301 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
302 | expression matcher. | |
303 | ||
304 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
305 | functionality. | |
306 | ||
307 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
308 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
309 | ||
310 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
311 | ||
312 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
313 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
314 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
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315 | \f |
316 | Version 1.09 | |
317 | ||
318 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
319 | ||
320 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
321 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
322 | ||
323 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
324 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
325 | ||
326 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
327 | run without an operating system. | |
328 | ||
329 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
330 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
331 | ||
332 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
333 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
334 | ||
335 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
336 | ||
337 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
338 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
339 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
340 | ||
341 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
342 | conventions. | |
343 | ||
344 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
345 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
346 | \f | |
347 | Version 1.08 | |
348 | ||
349 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
350 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
351 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
352 | ||
353 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
354 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
355 | ||
356 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
357 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
358 | ||
359 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
360 | ||
361 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
362 | ||
363 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
364 | compatibility. | |
365 | ||
366 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
367 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
368 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
369 | ||
370 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
371 | ||
372 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
373 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
374 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
375 | ||
376 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
377 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
378 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
379 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
380 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
381 | on a block). | |
382 | ||
383 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
384 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
385 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
386 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
387 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
388 | cross-compiler. | |
389 | ||
390 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
391 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
392 | \f | |
393 | Version 1.07 | |
394 | ||
395 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
396 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
397 | ||
398 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
399 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
400 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
401 | ||
402 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
403 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
404 | address of the last character written. | |
405 | ||
406 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
407 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
408 | ||
409 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
410 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
411 | ||
412 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
413 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
414 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
415 | you dereference this pointer. | |
416 | ||
417 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
418 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
419 | ||
420 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
421 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
422 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
423 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
424 | ||
425 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
426 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
427 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
428 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
429 | \f | |
430 | Version 1.06 | |
431 | ||
432 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
433 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
434 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
435 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
436 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@prep.ai.mit.edu. | |
437 | ||
438 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
439 | ||
440 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
441 | ||
442 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
443 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
444 | ||
445 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
446 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
447 | ||
448 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
449 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
450 | ||
451 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
452 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
453 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
454 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
455 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
456 | ||
457 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
458 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
459 | ||
460 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
461 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
462 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
463 | malloc'd string. | |
464 | ||
465 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
466 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
467 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
468 | ||
469 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
470 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
471 | \f | |
472 | Version 1.05 | |
473 | ||
474 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
475 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
476 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
477 | ||
478 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
479 | characters. | |
480 | ||
481 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
482 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
483 | ||
484 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
485 | \f | |
486 | Version 1.04 | |
487 | ||
488 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
489 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
490 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
491 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
492 | ||
493 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
494 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
495 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
496 | ||
497 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
498 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
499 | ||
500 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
501 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
502 | made itself into a shared library. | |
503 | ||
504 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
505 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
506 | ||
507 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
508 | with limited length. | |
509 | ||
510 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
511 | ||
512 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
513 | ||
514 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
515 | ||
516 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
517 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
518 | ||
519 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
520 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
521 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
522 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
523 | ||
524 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
525 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
526 | ||
527 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
528 | ||
529 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
530 | things to your strings. | |
531 | ||
532 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
533 | ||
534 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
535 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
536 | supporting those systems. | |
537 | ||
538 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
539 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
540 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
541 | configuration files. | |
542 | ||
543 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
544 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
545 | ||
546 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
71733723 | 547 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. |
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548 | |
549 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
550 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
551 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
552 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
553 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
554 | required storage is not available. | |
555 | ||
556 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
557 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
558 | Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations, | |
559 | we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C library. | |
560 | There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is called | |
561 | `glibc-VERSION-crypt.tar.Z', e.g. `glibc-1.04-crypt.tar.Z'. You can just | |
562 | unpack the crypt distribution along with the rest of the C library and | |
563 | build; you can also build the library without getting crypt. Users | |
564 | outside the USA can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from | |
565 | ftp.uni-c.dk [129.142.6.74], or another archive site outside the U.S. | |
566 | ||
567 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
568 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
569 | \f | |
570 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
571 | Copyright information: | |
572 | ||
71733723 | 573 | Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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574 | |
575 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
576 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
577 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
578 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
579 | ||
580 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
581 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
582 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
583 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
584 | \f | |
585 | Local variables: | |
586 | version-control: never | |
587 | end: |