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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 2.27
9
10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
13 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
14 exectuables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
15 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
16 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
17 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
18 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
c8e939f1 19 supported on i386, x86_64, x32 and aarch64.
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ac817e08 21* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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22 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
23 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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25* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
26
4cf82d23 27* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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29* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
30 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
31 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
32 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
33 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
34 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
35 from a security and performance perspective.
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37* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
38 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
39 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
40 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
41
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42* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
43 alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128
44 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These
45 are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
46 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
47
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48* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
49 mips64, powerpc64le, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
50 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
51 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
52 _Float128.
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54* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
55 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
56 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 57
4bab0224 58* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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60* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
61 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
62 pkey_get.
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64* The copy_file_range function was added.
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66* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
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68* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
69 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
70 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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72Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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74* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
75 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
76 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
77
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78* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
79 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
80 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
81 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
82 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
83 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
84 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
85 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
86 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
87 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
88 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
89 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
90 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
91 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
92 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
93 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
94 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
95 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
96 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
97 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
98 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
99 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
100 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
101 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
102 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
103 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
104
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105* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
106 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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108* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
109 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
110 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
111 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
112 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
113 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
114 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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116* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
117 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
118 exp10l for these functions instead.
119
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120* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
121 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
122 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
123
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124* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
125 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
126 ignored.
127
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128* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
129 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
130 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
131 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
132
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133* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
134 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
135
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136* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
137 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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139* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
140 programs.
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142* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
143
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144* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
145 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
146 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
147 instead.
148
149 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
150 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
151 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
152 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
153 use, but predates the bits convention.
154
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155Changes to build and runtime requirements:
156
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157* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
158 subdirectory.
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160Security related changes:
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162 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
163 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
164 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
165 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
166 script.)
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168 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
169 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
170 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
171 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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173 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
174 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
175 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
176 of service.
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178 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
179 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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180 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
181
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182 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
183 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
184 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
185 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
186
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187 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
188 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
189 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
190 Qualys.
191
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192 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
193 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
194 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
195 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
196 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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198 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
199 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
200 current directory.
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202 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
203 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
204 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
205
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206The following bugs are resolved with this release:
207
208 [The release manager will add the list generated by
209 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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212Version 2.26
213
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214Major new features:
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216* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
217 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
218 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
219 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
220 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
221 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
222 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
223
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224* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
225 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 226 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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227 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
228 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
229 are rendered with pango, see for example:
230 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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232* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
233 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
234 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 235
2b2ccd0c 236* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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238 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
239 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
240 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 241
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242 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
243 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
244 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
245 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
246 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 247
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248 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
249 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
250 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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252* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
253 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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255* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
256 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
257 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
258 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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260* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
261 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
262 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
263 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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265* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
266 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
267 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
268 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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270* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
271 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
272 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 273
2b2ccd0c 274* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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275 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
276 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
277 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 279 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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280 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
281 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
282 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
283 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
284
285 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
286 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
287 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
288 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
289 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
290 interfaces should be used instead.
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292Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
293
294* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
295 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
296 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
297 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
298 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
299 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
300 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
301 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
302
303* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
304 removed.
305
306* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 307 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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308 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
309 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
310
311* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
312 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
313 default.
314
315 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
316 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
317 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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318 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
319 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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320
321 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
322 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
323 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
324 name service modules, to be built and installed.
325
326* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
327 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
328 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
329 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
330
331* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
332 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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334* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
335 exported by accident.
336
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337* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
338 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
339 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
340
341* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
342 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
343 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
344 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
345
346* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
347
348* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
349
350* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
351 free instead.
352
353* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
354 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
355
356* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
357 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
358
359* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
360 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
361 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
362 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
363 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
364 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
365 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
366 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
367
368* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
369 synced with the kernel:
370
371 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
372 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
373
374 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
375 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
376 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
377
378 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
379 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
380
381Changes to build and runtime requirements:
382
383* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
384 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
385 x86-32 and x86-64.)
386
7e368000 387* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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389* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
390 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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391
392 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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393 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
394 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
395 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 396 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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398Security related changes:
399
e14a2772 400* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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401 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
402
403* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
404 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
405
406* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
407 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
408 (CVE-2010-3192).
409
410* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
411 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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412
413The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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415 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
416 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
417 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
418 fields
419 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
420 (CVE-2010-3192)
421 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
422 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
423 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
424 ld.bfd is available
425 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
426 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
427 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
428 x86 and other generic code
429 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
430 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
431 incorrect
432 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
433 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
434 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
435 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
436 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
437 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
438 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
439 resolver
440 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
441 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
442 order of 0D36 and 0D37
443 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
444 chillu characters
445 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
446 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
447 receiving data
448 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
449 whitespace
450 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
451 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
452 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
453 for Peru
454 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
455 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
456 failures consistently
457 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
458 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
459 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
460 frame-pointer on i386
461 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
462 register
463 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
464 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
465 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
466 generic c code is used
467 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
468 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
469 around 4000
470 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
471 (CVE-2017-12133)
472 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
473 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
474 with -lieee
475 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
476 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
477 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
478 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
479 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
480 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
481 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
482 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
483 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
484 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
485 remove()
486 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
487 checked for errors.
488 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
489 new posix_spawn implementation
490 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
491 leads to lower CPU frequency
492 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
493 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
494 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
495 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
496 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
497 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
498 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
499 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
500 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
501 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
502 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
503 not support gethostbyname4_r
504 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
505 switching
506 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
507 arenas
508 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
509 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
510 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
511 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
512 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
513 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
514 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
515 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
516 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
517 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
518 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
519 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
520 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
521 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
522 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
523 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
524 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
525 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
526 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
527 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
528 retry value
529 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
530 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
531 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
532 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
533 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
534 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
535 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
536 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
537 [21537] libc:
538 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
539 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
540 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
541 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
542 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
543 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
544 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
545 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
546 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
547 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
548 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
549 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
550 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
551 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
552 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
553 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
554 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
555 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
556 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
557 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
558 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
559 issue on x86-64
560 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
561 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
562 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
563 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
564 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
565 construction
566 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
567 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
568 between_2_3
569 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
570 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
571 conditions
572 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
573 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
574 Hindi Locale
575 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
576 posix/sched_cpucount.c
577 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
578 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
579 locale
580 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
581 leading to relocation crash
582 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
583 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
584 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
585 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
586 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
587 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
588 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
589 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
590 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
591 locale
592 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
593 locale
594 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
595 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
596 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
597 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
598 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
599 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
600 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
601 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
602 strings
603 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
604 protector=all
605 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
606 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
607 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
608 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
609 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
610 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
611 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
612 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
613 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
614 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
615 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
616 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
617 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
618 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
619 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
620 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
621 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
622 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
623 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
624 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
625 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
626 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
627 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
628 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
629 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
630 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
631 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
632 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
633 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
634 with unicode 9.0
635 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
636 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
637 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
638 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
639 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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643
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644* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
645 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
646 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
647 Library.
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649* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
650 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 651 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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653
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654* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
655 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
656 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
657 the GNU C Library.
658
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659* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
660 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
661 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
662 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
663 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
664 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
665 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
666 will not.
667
668 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
669 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
670 many years.
671
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672* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
673 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
674 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
675
676 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
677 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
678 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
679 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
680 problem.
681
ec94343f 682* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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684 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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686* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
687 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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688 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
689 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
690 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
691 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
692 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
693 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
694 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
695 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
696 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
697 WINT_WIDTH.
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699* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
700
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701 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
702
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703 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
704 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
705 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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707 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
708 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
709
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710 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
711 fminmagf, fminmagl.
712
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713 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
714
29cb9293 715 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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717 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
718 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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720 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
721
eb3c12c7 722 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 723 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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725* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
726 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
727
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728* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
729 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
730 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
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732* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
733 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
734 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
735 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
736 effects of the memory clear).
737
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738* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
739 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
740 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
741 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
742
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744 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
745 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
746 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
747 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
748 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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750* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
751 have been added.
752
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753* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
754 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
755 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
756 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
757 as large as several megabytes.
758
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759* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
760 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
761 been removed.
762
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763* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
764 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
765 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
766 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
767 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
768 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
769 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
770
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771* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
772 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
773 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
774 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
775
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777 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
778 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
779 Internet.
780
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781* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
782 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
783 They were already unimplemented.
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785* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
786 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
787 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
788 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
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790* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
791 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
792 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
793 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
794 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
795
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797 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
798 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
799 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
800 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
801
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803 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
804 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
805 did not reflect that.
806
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808 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
809 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
810 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
811 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
812 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
813 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
814 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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817 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
818 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
819 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
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822 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
823 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
824 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
825
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827 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
828 guarantees.
829
830* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
831 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
832 make state changes.
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835
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837 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
838 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
839 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
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843 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
844 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
845 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
846 (CVE-2015-5180)
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850 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
851 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
852 protector-all
853 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
854 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
855 before it started waiting
856 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
857 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
858 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
859 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
860 wrong type
861 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
862 library linked with pthread
863 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
864 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
865 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
866 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
867 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
868 after being __libc_memalign()'d
869 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
870 when it shouldnt
871 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
872 not
873 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
874 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
875 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
876 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
877 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
878 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
879 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
880 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
881 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
882 termination
883 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
884 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
885 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
886 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
887 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
888 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
889 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
890 causes a segmentation fault
891 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
892 linking
893 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
894 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
895 uninitialized GOT
896 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
897 versions
898 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
899 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
900 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
901 is always true.
902 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
903 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
904 modes
905 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
906 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
907 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
908 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
909 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
910 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
911 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
912 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
913 libpthread.a
914 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
915 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
916 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
917 _res_hconf
918 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
919 information.
920 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
921 penalty
922 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
923 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
924 cause transition penalty
925 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
926 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
927 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
928 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
929 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
930 mcount.oS)
931 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
932 Checking
933 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
934 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
935 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
936 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
937 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
938 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
939 multi-arch
940 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
941 (RES_USEBSTRING)
942 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
943 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
944 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
945 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
946 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
947 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
948 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
949 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
950 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
951 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
952 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
953 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
954 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
955 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
956 glibc
957 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
958 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
959 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
960 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
961 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
962 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
963 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
964 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
965 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
966 U+20AC), not same as GBK
967 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
968 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
969 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
970 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
971 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
972 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
973 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
974 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
975 RES_USE_INET6
976 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
977 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
978 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
979 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
980 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
981 wrong condition
982 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
983 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
984 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
985 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
986 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
987 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
988 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
989 clang
990 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
991 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
992 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
993 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
994 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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998* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
999 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1000 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1001 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1002 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1003 architectures.
1004
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1005* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1006 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1007 been included in previous releases.
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1009* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1010 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1011
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1012* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1013 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1014 instead of “union wait”.
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1016* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1017 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1018 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1019 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1020 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1021 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1022 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1023
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1024* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1025 API.
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1027* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1028 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1029 drop it.
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1031* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1032 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1033 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1034 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1035 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1036 extensions.
1037
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1039
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1040* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1041 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1042 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1043
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1044* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1045 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1046 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1047 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1049* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1050 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1051 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1052
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1053* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1054 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1055 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1056
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1057* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1058 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1059 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1060 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1064 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1065 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1066 of MS-DOS.
1067 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1068 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1069 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1070 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1071 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1072 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1073 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1074 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1075 CLDR data
1076 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1077 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1078 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1079 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1080 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1081 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1082 romanisation
1083 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1084 and +/-
1085 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1086 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1087 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1088 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1089 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1090 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1091 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1092 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1093 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1094 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1095 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1096 all locales
1097 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1098 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1099 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1100 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1101 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1102 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1103 execute
1104 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1105 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1106 -Wsystem-headers
1107 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1108 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1109 Romanian locale data
1110 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1111 symbol
1112 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1113 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1114 language
1115 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1116 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1117 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1118 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1119 machine
1120 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1121 description
1122 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1123 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1124 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1125 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1126 when using RTLD_NEXT
1127 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1128 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1129 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1130 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1131 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1132 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1133 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1134 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1135 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1136 Excavator core
1137 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1138 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1139 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1140 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1141 double range
1142 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1143 part zero incorrect
1144 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1145 equality tests
1146 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1147 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1148 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1149 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1150 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1151 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1152 glibc-2.22
1153 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1154 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1155 'tst-numeric.c'
1156 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1157 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1158 low part
1159 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1160 result
1161 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1162 unaligned stack
1163 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1164 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1165 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1166 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1167 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1168 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1169 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1170 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1171 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1172 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1173 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1174 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1175 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1176 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1177 modes
1178 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1179 server addresses
1180 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1181 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1182 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1183 response to getaddrinfo
1184 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1185 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1186 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1187 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1188 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1189 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1190 sometimes incorrect
1191 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1192 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1193 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1194 record types
1195 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1196 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1197 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1198 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1199 (CVE-2016-3075)
1200 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1201 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1202 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1203 resolving symbols
1204 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1205 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1206 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1207 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1208 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1209 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1210 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1211 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1212 gethosts
1213 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1214 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1215 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1216 (CVE-2016-3706)
1217 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1218 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1219 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1220 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1221 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1222 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1223 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1224 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1225 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1226 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1227 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1228 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1229 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1230 executable
1231 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1232 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1233 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1234 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1235 XPG3
1236 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1237 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1238 (CVE-2016-4429)
1239 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1240 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1241 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1242 AS not supporting AVX512
1243 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1244 sNaN argument
1245 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1246 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1247 argument
1248 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1249 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1250 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1251 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1252 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1253 eax=0x80000001
1254 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1255 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1256 subnormals
1257 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1258 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1259 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1260 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1261 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1262 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1263 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1264 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1265 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1266 input
1267 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1268 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1269 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1270 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1271 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1272 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1273 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1274 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1275 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1276 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1277 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1278 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1279 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1280 double rounding
1281 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1282 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1283 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1284 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1285 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1286 (Only arm/linux)
1287 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1288 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1289 fallbacks
1290 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1291 "invalid" exceptions
1292 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1293 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1294 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1295 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1296 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1297 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1298 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1299 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1300 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1304* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1305 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1306 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1307 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1308 89, 16061, and 18568.
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1311 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1312 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1313 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1314 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1315 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1316 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1317
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1318* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1319 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1320 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1321
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1322* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1323 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1324 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1325 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1326 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1327 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1328 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1329
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1330* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1331 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1332 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1333 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1334 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1335 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1336 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1337 Ericsson.)
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1339* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1340 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1341 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1342 independent of the GNU C Library.
1343
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1344* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1345 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1347* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1348 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1349 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1350 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1351 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1352 Linux kernel.
1353
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1354* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1355 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1357* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1358 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1359 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1360 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1361 defining their own copy.
1362
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1363* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1364 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1365 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1367Security related changes:
1368
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1369* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1370 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1371
1372* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1373 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1374 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1375 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1376 (CVE-2015-8777)
1377
1378* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1379 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1380
1381* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1382 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1383
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1384* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1385 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1386 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1388* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1389 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1390 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1391 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1392 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1393 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1394 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1395 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1396 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1397 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1398 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1399 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1400 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1401
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1404 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1405 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1406 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1407 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1408 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1409 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1410 use `mkstemp'
1411 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1412 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1413 overflow/underflow errors
1414 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1415 overflow/underflow
1416 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1417 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1418 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1419 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1420 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1421 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1422 are not contiguous
1423 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1424 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1425 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1426 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1427 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1428 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1429 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1430 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1431 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1432 all exceptions
1433 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1434 arguments
1435 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1436 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1437 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1438 should include
1439 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1440 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1441 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1442 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1443 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1444 GNU/Linux
1445 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1446 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1447 arguments
1448 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1449 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1450 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1451 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1452 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1453 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1454 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1455 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1456 rounding results
1457 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1458 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1459 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1460 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1461 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1462 fails
1463 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1464 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1465 block boundary
1466 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1467 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1468 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1469 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1470 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1471 4.7?
1472 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1473 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1474 (related to lock elision)
1475 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1476 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1477 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1478 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1479 (CVE-2015-8779)
1480 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1481 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1482 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1483 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1484 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1485 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1486 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1487 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1488 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1489 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1490 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1491 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1492 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1493 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1494 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1495 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1496 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1497 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1498 contains a vector instruction exception.
1499 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1500 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1501 locales
1502 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1503 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1504 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1505 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1506 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1507 missing break ?
1508 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1509 32bit processes
1510 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1511 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1512 infinity
1513 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1514 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1515 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1516 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1517 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1518 be forced unloaded
1519 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1520 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1521 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1522 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1523 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1524 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1525 statically too large
1526 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1527 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1528 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1529 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1530 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1531 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1532 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1533 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1534 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1535 FUTEX_SHARED
1536 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1537 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1538 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1539 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1540 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1541 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1542 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1543 opendir()
1544 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1545 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1546 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1547 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1548 signgam
1549 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1550 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1551 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1552 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1553 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1554 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1555 dependencies
1556 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1557 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1558 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1559 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1560 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1561 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1562 (CVE-2015-8776)
1563 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1564 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1565 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1566 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1567 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1568 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1569 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1570 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1571 contention
1572 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1573 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1574 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1575 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1576 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1577 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1578 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1579 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1580 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1581 rounding modes
1582 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1583 ILP32
1584 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1585 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1586 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1587 threshold
1588 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1589 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1590 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1591 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1592 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1593 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1594 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1595 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1596 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1597 pthread_setaffinity_np
1598 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1599 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1600 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1601 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1602 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1603 prelink
1604 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1605 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1606 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1607 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1608 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1609 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1610 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1611 bits/mathcalls.h
1612 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1613 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1614 for C99-based standards
1615 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1616 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1617 math-only
1618 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1619 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1620 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1621 disabled
1622 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1623 "inexact" exceptions
1624 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1625 arguments
1626 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1627 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1628 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1629 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1630 rules
1631 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1632 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1633 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1634 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1635 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1636 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1637 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1638 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1639 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1640 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1641 from 32bit
1642 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1643 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1644 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1645 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1646 subnormals
1647 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1648 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1649 error on 32-bit architectures
1650 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1651 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1652 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1653 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1654 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1655 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1656 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1657 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1658 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1659 -Os
1660 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1661 CPU's.
1662 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1663 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1664 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1665 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1666 architectures
1667 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1670
1671* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1672
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1674 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1675 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1676 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1677 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1678 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1679 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1680 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1681 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1682 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1683 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1684 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1685 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1686 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1687 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1688 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1689 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1690 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1691 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1692 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1694* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1695 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1696
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1697* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1698 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1699 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1700 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1701 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1702 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1704* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1705 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1706 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1707 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1708 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1709
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1710* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1711 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1712 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1713
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1714* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1715 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1716 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1717 17998.
1718
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1719* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1720 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1721 condition in some applications.
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1722
1723* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1724 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1725 pow, powf.
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1726 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1727 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1728 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1729 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1730 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1731
1732* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1733 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1734 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1735 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1736
1737* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1738 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1739 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1741* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1742 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1743
1744* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1745 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1746 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1747
a03ba363 1748 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1749 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1750 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1752Version 2.21
1753
1754* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1755
042e1521 1756 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1757 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1758 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1759 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1760 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1761 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1762 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1763 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1764 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1765 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1766 17892.
1767
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1768* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1769 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1770 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1771 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1772 intended.
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1774* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1775 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1776 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1777 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1778 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1779 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1781* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1782
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1783* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1784 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1785 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 1786
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1787* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1788 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1789 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1790 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1791 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1792 effects being visible outside transactions.
1793
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1794* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1795 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1797* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1798
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1799* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1800 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1801 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1802 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1803 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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1805* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1806 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1807
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1808* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1809 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1810 format.
11e3417a 1811
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1812* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1813 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1814 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1815
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1816* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1817 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1818
0d560bbf 1819* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1820
1821* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1822 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1823 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1824 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1825
1826* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1827 with newer versions of bison.
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1828
1829* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1830 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1831 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1832 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1833 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1834 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1835 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1836 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1837 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1838 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1839 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1840 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1841 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1842
1843 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1844 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1845 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1846 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1847 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1849Version 2.20
1850
1851* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1852
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1853 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1854 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1855 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1856 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1857 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1858 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1859 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1860 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1861 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1862 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1863 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1864 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1865 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1866 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1867 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
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1869* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1870 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1871 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1872 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1873 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1874 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1875 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1876 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1877 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1878 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1879
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1880* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1881 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1882 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1883 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1884 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
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1886* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1887
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1888* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1889 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1890
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1891* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1892 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1893 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1894 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1895 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1896 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1897
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1898* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1899 from ports.
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1900
1901* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1902 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1903 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1904 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1905 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1906 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1907 test macros defined.
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1908
1909* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1910
1911* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1912 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1913 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1914 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1915 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1916 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1917 is not built.
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1918
1919* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1920 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1921 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1922 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1923 invocation.
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1924
1925* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1926 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1927 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1928
1929* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1930 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1931 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1932 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1933
1934* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1935 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1936 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1937 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1938 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1939 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1940 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1941 additional checks.
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1942
1943* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1944 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1945 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1946 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1947 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1948 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1949 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1950 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1951 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1952
1953* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1954 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1955 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1956 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1957 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1958 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1959
1960* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1961 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1962 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1963 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1965Version 2.19
1966
1967* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1968
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1969 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1970 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1971 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1972 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1973 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1974 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1975 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1976 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1977 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1978 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1979 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1980 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1981 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1982 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1983 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1984 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1985 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1986 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1987
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1988* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1989 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1990
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1991* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1992 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1993 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1994 extension which uses __block.
1995
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1996* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1997 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1998 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1999 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2000 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2001
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2002* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2003 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2004 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2005 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2006 if malloc fails.
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2007
2008* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2009 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2010 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2011 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2012 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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2013
2014* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2015 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2016 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2017
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2018* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2019 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2020 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2021 #15856, #15857).
2022
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2023* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2024 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2025
82bab04b 2026* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2027 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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2029* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2030
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2031* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2032 supported locales.
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3e181dda 2034* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
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2036* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2037
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2038* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2039 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2040 for which the C library was built.
2041
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2042* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2043 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2044 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2045 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2046 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2047 in the following circumstances:
2048
2049 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2050
2051 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2052 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2053
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2054* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2055 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2056
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2057* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2058 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
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2060* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2061
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2062* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2063 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2064
8b7d57cd 2065* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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2066
2067* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2068
fd712ef3 2069* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2070
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2071* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2072 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2073 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2074 disable some of those declarations.
2075
7011c262 2076* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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2077 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2078 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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2079
2080* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2081 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2082
2083* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2084 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2085 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2086 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2087 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2088 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2089 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2090 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2091 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2092 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2093 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2094 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2095 require recompilation.
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2097Version 2.18
2098
2099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2100
17db6e8d 2101 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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2102 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2103 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2104 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2105 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2106 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2107 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2108 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2109 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2110 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2111 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2112 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2113 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2114 15755, 15759.
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2116* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2117 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2118 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2119 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2120 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2121 understands and accepts the risks.
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2123* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2124 #15078).
2125
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2126* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2127 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2128
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2129* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2130 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2131 destructor calls to glibc.
2132
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2133* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2134 output.
2135
2136* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2137 non-x86 architectures.
2138
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2139* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2140
2141* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2142
2143* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2144 Richard Henderson.
2145
2146* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2147
2148* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2149 Richard Henderson.
2150
2151* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2152 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2153
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2154* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2155
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2156* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2157 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2158
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SP
2159* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2160 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2161
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2162* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2163 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2164 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2165
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2166* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2167 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2168 attributes of a process.
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2169
2170* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2171 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2172 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2173 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2174 mutexes.
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2175
2176* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2177 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2178
2179* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2181Version 2.17
2182
2183* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2184
80ceeaee 2185 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2186 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2187 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2188 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2189 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2190 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2191 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2192 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2193 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2194 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2195 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2196 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2197 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2198 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2199 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2200
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2201* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2202
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2203* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2204 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2205
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2206* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2207 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2208
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2209* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2210
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2211* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2212 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2213 zEnterprise z196.
2214 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2215
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2216* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2217 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2218 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2219
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2220* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2221 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2222
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2223* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2224 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2225
7aab07e4 2226* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2227 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2228
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2229* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2230 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2231
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2232* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2233 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2234 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2235 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2236
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2237* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2238 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2239
85429b1a 2240* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2241 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2242 default.
2243
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2244* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2245 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2246 information in --help and --version output.
2247
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2248* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2249 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2250 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2251
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2252* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2253 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2254 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2255 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2256 when the mode is enabled.
2257
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2258* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2259 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2260 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2261 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2262 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2263 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2264 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
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2266* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2267 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2269Version 2.16
2270
2271* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2272
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2273 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2274 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2275 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2276 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2277 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2278 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2279 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2280 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2281 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2282 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2283 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2284 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2285 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2286 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2287 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2288 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2289 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2290 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2291 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2292 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2293 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2294 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2295 14277, 14278.
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2297* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2298 configuring glibc with:
2299 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2300 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2301 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2302
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2303* ISO C11 support:
2304
2305 + define static_assert
2306
2307 + do not declare gets
2308
2309 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2310
2311 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2312 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2313 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2314 implementation.
8d44e150 2315
74033a25 2316 + timespec_get added
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2317
2318 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2319
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2320 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2321
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2322 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2323
9dc4e1fb 2324* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2326* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2327
2328* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2329 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2330
2331* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2333
2334* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2335 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2336 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2337 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2338 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2339
21708942 2340* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2341 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2342 before 2.6.
83678f76 2343
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2344* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2345 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2346 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2347
83678f76 2348* New locales: mag_IN
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2349
2350* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2351 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2352 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2353 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2354 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2355
2356* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2357
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2358* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2359 and Will Schmidt.
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2360
2361* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2362
2363* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2364 without a previously built glibc.
2365
2366* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2367 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2368
2369* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2370 now supported for ARM processors.
2371
2372* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2373 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2374 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2375
2376* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
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2377
2378* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2379 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2380 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2381 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2382
2383* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2384 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2385 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2386 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2387
2388* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2389 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2390 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2391 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2392 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2393
2394* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2395 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2396 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2397 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 2399Version 2.15
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2401* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2402
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2403 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2404 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2405 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2406 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2407 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2408 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2409 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2411* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2413
2414* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2415 and support for initgroups lookups.
2416 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2417
2418* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2419 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2420
2421* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2422 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2423
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2424* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2425 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2426 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2427
d42964a0 2428* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2429 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2430
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2431* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2432 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2433 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2434
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2435* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2437
2438* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2439 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2440
2441* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2442 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2443
2444* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2446
2447* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2448 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2449
2450* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2451 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2452
2453* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2454
2455* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2457
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2458* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2459 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2460
6b64057b 2461* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2465* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2466
553149f6 2467 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2468 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2469 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2470 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2471 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2472 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2473 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2474 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2475 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2476 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2477
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2478* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2479 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2480 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2481 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2482
2483 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2484 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2485 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2487
c6489db3 2488* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2489 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2490
72d1dddb 2491* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2492 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2493
2494* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2495
2496* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2498
2499* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2500 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2501 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2502 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2505
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2506* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2507
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2508 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2509 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2510 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2511 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2512 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2513
10b3bedc 2514* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2515
ac2b484c 2516* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 2517
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2518* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2519 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2522Version 2.12
2523
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2524* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2525
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2526 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2527 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2528 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2529 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2530 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2531 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2532 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2533 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2534
2535* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2536
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2537* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2538
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2539* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2540
2541* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2542 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2543 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2544
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2545* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2546 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2547 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2548 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2549 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2550
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2554
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2556
2557 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2558 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2559 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2560 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2561 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2562 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2563
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2565 mkostemps64
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2567
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2569 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2570
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2572 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2573
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2575
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9d36a6c4 2577 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2578 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2580
9d36a6c4 2581 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2583
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2584* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2585 strstr, strcasestr.
2586 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2587
2588* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2589 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2590
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2591* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2592 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2593
2594* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2596
2597* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2598 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2599 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2600 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2601 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2602 necessity is every process again.
2603 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2604
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2606 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2607
2608* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2609 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2610
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2612 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2614
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2618
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2620
2621 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2622 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2623 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2624 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2625 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2626
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2629
425ce2ed 2630* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2632
1fdd89a7 2633* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2634 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2637 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 2639* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2644
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2645* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2646 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2647
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2648* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2649 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2650
2651* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2652 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2654
735be400 2655* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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2659
2660* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2661 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2663
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2664* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2666
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2668 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2669 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2670 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2671 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2672 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2675
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2677
2678 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2679 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2680 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2681 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2682 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2683
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2686
2687* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2688 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2690* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2693* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2694 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2696
2697* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2698 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2702* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
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2705* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2706 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2707 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2709
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2710* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2711 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2714 Sinhala)
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2717* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2720
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2722
2723 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2724 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2725 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2726 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2727 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2728 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2729 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2730
e038616f 2731* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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2735* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2736 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2737
2738* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2739
2740* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2741 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2742
2743* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2745
2746* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2747 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2748 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2749
2750* Faster memset for x86-64.
2751 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2752
2753* Faster memcpy on x86.
2754 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2755
2756* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2759* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2760 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2763
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2765
2766 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2767 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2768 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2769 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2770 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2771
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2772* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2773 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2774
2775* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2776
2777* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2778 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2779 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2780
2781* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2782 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2783
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2785 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2786
2787* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2788
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2789* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2791
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2792* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2793 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2794
2795* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2796 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2797
2798* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2799
2800* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2803* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2804 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2805 yo_NG.
2806
2807+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2813
2814 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2815 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2816 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2817 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2818 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2819 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2820 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2821 4702, 4858
2822
bce20b9a 2823* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2825* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
2826
b21fa963 2827* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2830
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2832
2833 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2834 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2835 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2836 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2837 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2838 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2839 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2840 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2841 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2842
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2844 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2845 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2847* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2849
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2852* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2854* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2855 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2856 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2858 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2859
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2861 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2862 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2864
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2865* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
2866 Ulrich Drepper.
2867
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2868* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2869
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2870* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2871 Ulrich Drepper.
2872
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2873* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2874
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2875* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2876 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2879
2880* More overflow detection functions.
2881
2882* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2883 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2885 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2886 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2887 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2888 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2889 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2890 by Masahide Washizawa.
2891
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2893 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2895* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2896 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2897 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2898 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2900* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2901 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2902
2903* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2904
2905* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2906 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2907 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2908
2909* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2910 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2911
2912* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2913 for compatibility with some other systems.
2914
2915* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2918
2919* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2920
2921 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2922 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2923 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2924 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2925 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2926 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2927
2928 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2929
2930* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2931
2932* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2935
2936* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2937
2938 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2939 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2940 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2941 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2942
2943 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2946
2947* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2950* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2951 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2953
2954* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2955 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2956
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2958 efficiently.
2959 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2960
2961* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2962 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2963 handling data.
2964
2965* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2966 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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2969* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2971
2972* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2973 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2974 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2975 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2976
2977* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2978 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2979 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2980 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2981
2982* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2983 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2984 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2985 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2986 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2989
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2990* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2991 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2992
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2993* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2994 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 2995
69be6aaf 2996* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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2997 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2998
2999* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3001
3002* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3003 by Roland McGrath.
3004
c5af724c 3005* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3006 and Ulrich Drepper.
3007
3008* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3009 RFC 3484.
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3011Version 2.3.2
3012
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3013* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3014 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3015 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3016 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3017 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3018 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3019 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3020 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3021 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3022
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3023* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3024 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3025 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3026
3027* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3028
3029* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3030 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3031
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3032* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3033 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3034
52a16e58 3035* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3036
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3037* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3038 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3039
3040* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3041 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3042 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3043 of weak definition in ld.so.
3044
3045* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3046 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3047
3048* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3049 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 3051Version 2.3
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3053* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3054 charsets.
3055
3056* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3057 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3058
bb0ec5bd 3059* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3060 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3061
3062* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3063 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3064
bb0ec5bd 3065* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3066 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3067 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3068
3069* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3070 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3071
bb0ec5bd 3072* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3073 implementation of regex.
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3074
3075* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3076 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3077
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3078* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3079 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3080
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3081* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3082 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3083 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3084
3085* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3086 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3087
3088* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3089 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3090 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3091
3092* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3093 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3094
3095* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3096 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3097 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3098
3099* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3101Version 2.2.6
3102
3103* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3104 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3105
3106* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3107 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3109Version 2.2.5
3110
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3111* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3112 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3113
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3114* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3115 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3116
ad2e4f18 3117* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3118
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3119* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3120
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3121* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3122 as well.
3123
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3124* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3125 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3126
3127* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 3128\f
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3129Version 2.2.4
3130
2995f70e 3131* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3132 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3133
3134* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3135 support Unicode 3.1.
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3136
3137* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3138 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3139
69d5f925 3140* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3141
69d5f925 3142* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3143 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3144 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3145
3146* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3147 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3148
3149* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3150 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3151
3152* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 3153\f
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3154Version 2.2.3
3155
1746f2b0 3156* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3157 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3158 in float, double, and long double format.
3159
f128331c 3160* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3161 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3162 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 3163
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3164* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3165 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3166 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3167 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3168
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3169* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3170 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3171 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3172
3173* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3174 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3175
3176* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3177 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3178
3179* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3180 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3181 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3182
3183* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3184 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3185
3186* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3187 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3188
3189* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 3190\f
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3191Version 2.2.2
3192
464d97ec 3193* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3194 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3195 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3196 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3197 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3198 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3199 other headers.
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3200
3201* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3202 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3203
3204* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3205 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3206 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3207 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3208
3209* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3210 locales. While
3211
3212 locale -a
3213
3214 only lists the names of the supported locales
3215
3216 locale -a --verbose
3217
3218 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3219 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3221Version 2.2.1
3222
3223* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3224 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3225 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3226 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3227 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3228
3229 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3230
3231 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3232
3233 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3234
3235* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3236 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3237 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3238
3239* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3240 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3241
3242* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3243 changed from the default "C" locale.
3244
3245* The usual bug fixes.
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3247Version 2.2
3248
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3249* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3250 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3251 is in progress.
3252
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3253* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3254
793bd4d9 3255* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 3256
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3257 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3258 obviously requires a database library being available.
3259
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3260* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3261
abbffdf9 3262* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3263
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3264* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3265 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3266
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3267* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3268
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3269* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3270 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3271 and Mark Kettenis.
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3272
3273 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3274 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3275 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3276
a00c3ca9 3277 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3278 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3279
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3280* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3281 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3282 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3283
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3284* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3285 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3286 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3288
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3289 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3290 structures for the wide character tables.
3291
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3292* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3293
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3294* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3295
3296* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3297
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3298* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3299 and Yutaka Niibe.
3300
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3301* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3302
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3303* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3304
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3305* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3306
3307* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3308
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3309* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3310
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3311* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3312 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3313 implemented for Linux.
3314
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3315* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3316 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3317 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3318 versions.
3319
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3320* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3321 Masahide Washizawa.
3322
8f3f1e09 3323* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3324\f
3325Version 2.1.3
3326
3327* bug fixes
3328
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3329\f
3330Version 2.1.2
3331
3332* bug fixes
3333
28f540f4 3334\f
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3335Version 2.1.1
3336
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3337* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3338
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3339* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3340
407d26b7 3341* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3342
3343* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3344
407d26b7 3345* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3346
407d26b7 3347* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3348
3349* Update timezone data files.
27995311 3350
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3351* lots of charmaps corrections
3352
3353* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3354
e518937a 3355\f
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3356Version 2.1
3357
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3358* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3359 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3360 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3361 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3362 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3363 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3364
c84142e8 3365* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3366 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3367
1fb05e3d 3368* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3369 symbol level.
3370
3371* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3372 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3373
cbdee279 3374* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3375
3376* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3377 numbers.
377a515b 3378
cbdee279 3379* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3380
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3381* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3382 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3383
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3384* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3385 library.
3386
e61abf83 3387* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3388 functions from ISO C 9X.
3389
3390* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3391 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3392
a5a0310d 3393* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3395* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3396
3397* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3398
440d13e2 3399* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3400
3401* Optimized string functions have been added.
3402
3403* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3404
3405* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 3406
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3407* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3408 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3409
3410 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3411 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3412
0dee6738 3413 user system wall
48244d09 3414
0dee6738 3415 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3416
0dee6738 3417 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3418
0dee6738 3419 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3421 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3422
3423 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3424
3425 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3427 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3428 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3429 horribly slow.
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3431 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3432 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3434* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3435
3436* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3437
3438* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3439 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3440
3441* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 3442
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3443* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3444 Bambrough.
3445
3446* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3447 latest draft standards.
3448
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3449* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3450
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3451* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3452~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 3454alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3455argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3456argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3457argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3458argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3459argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3460argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3461argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3462argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3463argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3464argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3465authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3466authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3467authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3468backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3469backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3470backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3471cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3472cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3473cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3474cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3475cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3476cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3477capget NEW: kernel
3478capset NEW: kernel
3479carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3480cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3481cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3482casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3483casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3484casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3485casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3486casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3487casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3488catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3489catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3490catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3491catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3492catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3493catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 3494cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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3495ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3496ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3497ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3498ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3499ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3500ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3501cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3502cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3503cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3504cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3505cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3506cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3507clearerr_locked REMOVED
3508clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3509clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3510clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3511clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3512clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3513clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3514clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3515conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3516conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3517conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3518cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3519cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3520cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3521cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3522cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3523cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3524creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3525crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3526creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3527creat64 NEW: LFS
3528csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3529csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3530csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3531csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3532csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3533csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3534csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3535csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3536csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3537ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3538ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3539ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3540ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3541ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3542ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3544ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3545endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3547exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3548exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3549exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3550exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3551exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3552fattach NEW: STREAMS
3553fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3554fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3555fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3556fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3557feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3558fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3559fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3560fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3561feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3562feof_locked REMOVED
3563feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3564ferror_locked REMOVED
3565fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3566fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3567fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3568fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3569feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3570fflush_locked REMOVED
3571ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3572ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3573fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3574fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3575fileno_locked REMOVED
3576fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3577fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3578fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3579fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3580fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3581fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3582fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3583fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3584fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3585fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3587fputc_locked REMOVED
3588fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3589fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3590freopen64 NEW: LFS
3591fseeko NEW: Unix98
3592fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3593fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3594fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3595fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3596ftello NEW: Unix98
3597ftello64 NEW: LFS
3598ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3599ftw64 NEW: LFS
3600fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3601gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3602gamma_r REMOVED
3603gammaf_r REMOVED
3604gammal_r REMOVED
3605getchar_locked REMOVED
3606getdate NEW: Unix98
3607getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3608getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3609getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3610getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3613getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3614getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3616getutxid NEW: Unix98
3617getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3619globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3620gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3621gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3622grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3623host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3625iconv_close NEW: iconv
3626iconv_open NEW: iconv
3627if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3628if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3629if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3630if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3631in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3632in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3633inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3634isastream NEW: STREAMS
3635iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3637key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3638key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3639key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3640key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3641key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3642key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3643key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3644key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3646llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3647llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3648llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3649llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3650llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3651log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3652log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3653log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3654lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3655lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3656lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3657lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3658lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3659lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3660lseek64 NEW: LFS
3661makecontext NEW: Unix98
3662mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3663mmap64 NEW: LFS
3664moncontrol REMOVED
3665modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3666nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3667nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3668nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3669nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3670nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3671nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3673netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3675nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3676nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3678nftw64 NEW: LFS
3679open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3680passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3682pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3683pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3684pread NEW: Unix98
3685pread64 NEW: LFS
3686printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3687printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3688profil_counter REMOVED
3689pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3690pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3691ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3692ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3693putc_locked REMOVED
3694putchar_locked REMOVED
3695putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3696putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3697putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3698pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3700pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3701readdir64 NEW: LFS
3702readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3703remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3704remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3705remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3706round NEW: ISO C 9x
3707roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3708roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3709rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3710scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3711scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3712scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3713scandir64 NEW: LFS
3714sendfile NEW: kernel
3715setcontext NEW: Unix98
3716setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3717setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3719sigignore NEW: Unix98
3720sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3721sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3722sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3723sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3724sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3725sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3726sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3727sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3728statfs64 NEW: LFS
3729statvfs NEW: Unix98
3730statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3731strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3733strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3734strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3735svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3737svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3738swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3739tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3740tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3741tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3742tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3743tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3744tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3745trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3746truncate64 NEW: LFS
3747truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3748truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3749umount2 NEW: kernel
3750unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3751updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3752user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3753utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3754versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3755versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3756waitid NEW: Unix98
3757wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3758wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3759wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3760wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3761wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3762wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3763wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3764wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3765wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3766wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3767write_profiling REMOVED
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3769xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3770xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3771xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3772xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3773xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3774xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3775xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3776xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3777xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3778xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3779xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3780xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3781xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3782xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3783~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3785Version 2.0.6
3786
3787* more bug fixes
3788
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3789\f
3790Version 2.0.5
3791
3792* more bug fixes
3793
3794* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3795
3796* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3797
3798* rewrite of cbrt function
3799
3800* update of timezone data
3801\f
3802Version 2.0.4
3803
3804* more bug fixes
3805\f
3806Version 2.0.3
3807
3808* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3809\f
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3810Version 2.0.2
3811
3812* more bug fixes
3813
3814* add atoll function
3815
3816* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3818* fix math functions
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3819\f
3820Version 2.0.1
3821
3822* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3823
3824* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3825
3826* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3827 the ELF dynamic loader.
3828
3829* support for parallel builds is improved
3830\f
40a4b79f 3831Version 2.0
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3833* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3834 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3835 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3836
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3837* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3838 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3839 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3840 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3841 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3842 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3843 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3844 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3845 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3846 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3847 files in the ELF format.
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3848
3849* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3850 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3851
3852* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3853 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3854 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3855 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3856 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3857 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3858 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3859 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3860 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3861 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3862 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3864* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3865 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3866 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3867 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3868 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3869
f7eac6eb 3870* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3871 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3872 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3873 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3874 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3875
3876* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3878* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3879 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3880 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3881 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3882 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3883 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3884 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3885 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3886 NSS services available.
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3888* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3889 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3890 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3891
3892* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3893 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3894 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3895
3896* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3897 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3898 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3899 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3900
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3901* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3902 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3903 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3904
3905* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3906 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3907 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3908
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3909* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3910 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3911
f7eac6eb 3912* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3913 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3914 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3915 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3916
3917* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3918 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3919 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3920
71733723 3921* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3922 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3923 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3924 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3925 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3926 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3927 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3928 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3929
3930* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3931 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3932 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3933 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3934 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3935 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3936 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3937
3938* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3939 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3940 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3941 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3942 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3943 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3944
3945* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3946 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3947
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3948* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3949 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3950 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3952* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3953
3954* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3955 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3956 their use is discouraged.
3957
3958* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3959 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3961* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3962 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3963
3964* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3965 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3966
3967* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3968 see <dirent.h>.
3969
3970* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3971 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3972 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3973 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3974 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3975
3976* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3977 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3978 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3979 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3980
3981* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3982 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3983
3984* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3985 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3986 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3987 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3988 number generator.
3989
3990* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3991 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3992
3993* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3994 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3995
71733723 3996* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3997 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3998 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3999 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4001* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4002
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4003* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4004 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4005 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4006
4007* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4008 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4010* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4011 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4012 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4013 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4014
4015* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4016 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4017 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4018 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4019 programs already written to use it.)
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4020
4021* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4022 constants.
4023
4024* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4025 with 4.4 BSD.
4026
4027* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4028 a given effective group ID.
4029
4030* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4031 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4032 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4033 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4034
4035* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4036 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4037 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4038 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4039 doing the same thing.
4040
4041* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4042 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4043
4044* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4045 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4046
4047* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4048
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4049* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4050 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4051 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4052 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4053 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4054
4055* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4056 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4057
4058* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4059 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4060 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4061 function.
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4062
4063* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4064
4065* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4066 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4067 strings.
4068
4069* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4070 and writing the utmp file.
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4071
4072* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4073 Thorsten Kukuk.
4074
4075* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4076 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4077 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4078
4079* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4080 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4081
4082* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4083 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4084 specification.
4085
4086* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4087 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4088 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4089 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4090
4091* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4092 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4093 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4094
4095* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4096 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4097 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4098 expression matcher.
4099
4100* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4101 functionality.
4102
4103* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4104 by Ulrich Drepper.
4105
4106* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4107
4108* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4109 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4110 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4111\f
4112Version 1.09
4113
4114* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4115
4116* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4117 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4118
4119* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4120 want to put themselves in the background.
4121
4122* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4123 run without an operating system.
4124
4125* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4126 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4127
4128* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4129 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4130
4131* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4132
4133* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4134 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4135 have YP (aka NIS).
4136
4137* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4138 conventions.
4139
4140* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4141 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4142\f
4143Version 1.08
4144
4145* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4146 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4147 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4148
4149* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4150 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4151
4152* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4153 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4154
4155* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4156
4157* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4158
4159* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4160 compatibility.
4161
4162* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4163 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4164 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4165
4166* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4167
4168* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4169 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4170 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4171
4172* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4173 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4174 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4175 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4176 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4177 on a block).
4178
4179* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4180 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4181 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4182 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4183 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4184 cross-compiler.
4185
4186* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4187 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4188\f
4189Version 1.07
4190
4191* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4192 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4193
4194* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4195 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4196 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4197
4198* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4199 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4200 address of the last character written.
4201
4202* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4203 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4204
4205* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4206 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4207
4208* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4209 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4210 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4211 you dereference this pointer.
4212
4213* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4214 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4215
4216* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4217 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4218 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4219 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4220
4221* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4222 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4223 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4224 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4225\f
4226Version 1.06
4227
4228* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4229 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4230 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4231 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4232 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4233
4234* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4235
4236* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4237
4238* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4239 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4240
4241* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4242 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4243
4244* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4245 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4246
4247* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4248 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4249 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4250 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4251 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4252
4253* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4254 to the error code in `errno'.
4255
4256* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4257 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4258 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4259 malloc'd string.
4260
4261* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4262 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4263 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4264
4265* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4266 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4268Version 1.05
4269
4270* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4271 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4272 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4273
4274* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4275 characters.
4276
4277* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4278 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4279
4280* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4281\f
4282Version 1.04
4283
4284* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4285 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4286 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4287 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4288
4289* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4290 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4291 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4292
4293* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4294 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4295
4296* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4297 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4298 made itself into a shared library.
4299
4300* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4301 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4302
4303* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4304 with limited length.
4305
4306* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4307
4308* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4309
4310* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4311
4312* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4313 function for traversing a directory tree.
4314
4315* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4316 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4317 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4318 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4319
4320* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4321 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4322
4323* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4324
4325* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4326 things to your strings.
4327
4328* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4329
4330* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4331 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4332 supporting those systems.
4333
4334* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4335 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4336 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4337 configuration files.
4338
4339* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4340 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4341
4342* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4343 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4344 in <strings.h>.)
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4345
4346* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4347 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4348 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4349 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4350 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4351 required storage is not available.
4352
4353* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4354 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4355
4356* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4357 latest files released from Berkeley.
4358\f
4359----------------------------------------------------------------------
4360Copyright information:
4361
09533208 4362Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4363
4364 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4365 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4366 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4367 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4368
4369 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4370 of this document, or of portions of it,
4371 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4372 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4373\f
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4375version-control: never
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