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7f3146e7 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2009-10-29 |
1fdd89a7 | 2 | Copyright (C) 1992-2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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3 | See the end for copying conditions. |
4 | ||
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5 | Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> |
6 | using `glibc' in the "product" field. | |
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7 | \f |
8 | Version 2.11 | |
9 | ||
7f3146e7 | 10 | * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64 |
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11 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
12 | ||
24ab9c76 | 13 | * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack |
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14 | frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
15 | ||
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16 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables. |
17 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
18 | ||
0122f28e | 19 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp, |
9d36a6c4 | 20 | strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), |
7f3146e7 | 21 | strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2). |
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22 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. |
23 | ||
9d36a6c4 | 24 | strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3). |
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25 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
26 | ||
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27 | * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk, |
28 | strstr, strcasestr. | |
29 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
30 | ||
31 | * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64. | |
32 | Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper. | |
33 | ||
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34 | * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so. |
35 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
36 | ||
37 | * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added. | |
38 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
39 | ||
40 | * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more | |
41 | broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not | |
42 | handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending | |
43 | the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf | |
44 | can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the | |
45 | necessity is every process again. | |
46 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
47 | ||
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48 | * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup. |
49 | Implemented by Adam Tkac. | |
50 | ||
51 | * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x. | |
52 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
53 | ||
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54 | * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel |
55 | support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64. | |
56 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
57 | ||
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58 | * New locale: ps_AF |
59 | ||
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60 | \f |
61 | Version 2.10 | |
62 | ||
bb066545 | 63 | * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info |
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64 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
65 | ||
425ce2ed | 66 | * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64. |
e109c612 | 67 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
6f5c3117 | 68 | |
1fdd89a7 | 69 | * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This |
735be400 | 70 | could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code. |
1fdd89a7 | 71 | |
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72 | * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are |
73 | now in POSIX. | |
77db439e | 74 | |
1f04d005 | 75 | * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo |
6cbe890a | 76 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1f04d005 | 77 | |
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78 | * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit |
79 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
80 | ||
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81 | * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime |
82 | using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
83 | ||
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84 | * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in |
85 | NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
86 | ||
87 | * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient | |
88 | but higher performing in multi-threaded programs. | |
89 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
90 | ||
735be400 | 91 | * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN |
878b72c5 | 92 | |
84aa52d7 | 93 | * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64. |
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94 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
95 | ||
96 | * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types | |
97 | and extend existing format specifiers. | |
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98 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
99 | ||
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100 | * Handling for group shadow files has been added. |
101 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
102 | ||
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103 | * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS |
104 | servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS | |
105 | server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout | |
106 | in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put | |
107 | 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. | |
108 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
109 | ||
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111 | Version 2.9 |
112 | ||
113 | * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked | |
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114 | up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
115 | ||
116 | * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64. | |
117 | Implemented by Alexandre Oliva. | |
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118 | |
119 | * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite. | |
120 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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121 | |
122 | * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, | |
123 | htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh. | |
124 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
125 | ||
126 | * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n). | |
127 | Implemented by Eric Blake. | |
e038616f | 128 | |
8ec2550e | 129 | * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2 |
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130 | |
131 | * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the | |
ebcc1f4d | 132 | close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
e038616f | 133 | |
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134 | * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't |
135 | implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really | |
136 | use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis. | |
137 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
138 | ||
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139 | * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec |
140 | flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
48b22986 | 141 | |
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142 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu, |
143 | Sinhala) | |
48b22986 | 144 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. |
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145 | |
146 | * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW. | |
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148 | Version 2.8 |
149 | ||
e038616f | 150 | * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA. |
b4354cf4 | 151 | |
77751669 | 152 | * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. |
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153 | |
154 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). | |
155 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. | |
156 | ||
157 | * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID | |
158 | ||
159 | * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries | |
160 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
161 | ||
162 | * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. | |
163 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
164 | ||
165 | * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, | |
166 | vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. | |
167 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
168 | ||
169 | * Faster memset for x86-64. | |
170 | Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. | |
171 | ||
172 | * Faster memcpy on x86. | |
173 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
174 | ||
175 | * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). | |
176 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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177 | |
178 | * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. | |
179 | Implemented by Stephen Munroe. | |
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181 | Version 2.7 |
182 | ||
183 | * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open. | |
184 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
185 | ||
186 | * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
187 | ||
188 | * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance | |
189 | by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested. | |
190 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
191 | ||
192 | * PPC optimizations to math and string functions. | |
193 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. | |
194 | ||
28919a77 | 195 | * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional |
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196 | options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
197 | ||
198 | * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
199 | ||
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200 | * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write. |
201 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
202 | ||
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203 | * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation. |
204 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
205 | ||
206 | * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc. | |
207 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
208 | ||
209 | * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
210 | ||
211 | * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption. | |
212 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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213 | |
214 | * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG, | |
215 | ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN, | |
216 | yo_NG. | |
217 | ||
218 | + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU. | |
219 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
e1db0493 | 220 | \f |
11bf311e | 221 | Version 2.6 |
46c38bd7 | 222 | |
bce20b9a | 223 | * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu. |
46c38bd7 | 224 | |
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225 | * New generic interfaces: strerror_l. |
226 | ||
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227 | * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
228 | ||
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229 | \f |
230 | Version 2.5 | |
231 | ||
232 | * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also | |
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233 | handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. |
234 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3af48b5b | 235 | |
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236 | * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. |
237 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
238 | ||
871b9158 | 239 | * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. |
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240 | |
241 | * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. | |
3af48b5b | 242 | |
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243 | * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate |
244 | option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results | |
245 | of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some | |
457b559e | 246 | site might have problems with the default behavior. |
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247 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
248 | ||
07bfff20 | 249 | * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the |
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250 | SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide |
251 | to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. | |
252 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
253 | ||
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254 | * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by |
255 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
256 | ||
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257 | * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. |
258 | ||
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259 | * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and |
260 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
261 | ||
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262 | * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. |
263 | ||
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264 | * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, |
265 | or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. | |
2e92188d | 266 | \f |
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267 | Version 2.4 |
268 | ||
269 | * More overflow detection functions. | |
270 | ||
271 | * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, | |
272 | IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. | |
1aa4e40a | 273 | |
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274 | More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, |
275 | IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, | |
276 | IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, | |
277 | IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, | |
278 | IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed | |
279 | by Masahide Washizawa. | |
280 | ||
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281 | * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using |
282 | LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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283 | |
284 | * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no | |
285 | longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. | |
286 | For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we | |
287 | recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. | |
4973cbe5 | 288 | |
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289 | * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, |
290 | but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. | |
291 | ||
292 | * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. | |
293 | ||
294 | * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, | |
295 | futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, | |
296 | renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. | |
297 | ||
298 | * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, | |
299 | inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. | |
300 | ||
301 | * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, | |
302 | for compatibility with some other systems. | |
303 | ||
304 | * Timezone data updated to 2006b version. | |
137e6462 | 305 | \f |
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306 | Version 2.3.6 |
307 | ||
308 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
309 | ||
310 | 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, | |
311 | 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, | |
312 | 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, | |
313 | 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, | |
314 | 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, | |
315 | 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 | |
316 | ||
317 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
318 | ||
319 | * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. | |
320 | ||
321 | * Timezone data updated to 2005m version. | |
322 | \f | |
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323 | Version 2.3.5 |
324 | ||
325 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
326 | ||
327 | 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, | |
328 | 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, | |
329 | 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, | |
330 | 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 | |
331 | ||
332 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
333 | \f | |
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334 | Version 2.3.4 |
335 | ||
336 | * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. | |
337 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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338 | |
339 | * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded. | |
340 | For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes. | |
341 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
342 | ||
343 | * nscd can now perform SELinux checks. | |
344 | Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>. | |
345 | ||
0325dd20 | 346 | * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed |
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347 | efficiently. |
348 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
349 | ||
350 | * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when | |
351 | compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception | |
352 | handling data. | |
353 | ||
354 | * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when | |
355 | it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate | |
0325dd20 | 356 | the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
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357 | |
358 | * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int | |
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359 | lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
360 | ||
361 | * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate | |
362 | namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course, | |
363 | like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically | |
364 | linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
365 | ||
366 | * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions | |
367 | were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by | |
368 | Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible. | |
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369 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. |
370 | ||
371 | * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that | |
372 | have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from | |
373 | the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers. | |
374 | These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module | |
375 | that is usable as an add-on when building the library. | |
a55bda85 | 376 | \f |
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377 | Version 2.3.3 |
378 | ||
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379 | * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to |
380 | interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface. | |
381 | ||
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382 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64; |
383 | implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath. | |
925c3c5c | 384 | |
69be6aaf | 385 | * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information. |
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386 | Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk. |
387 | ||
388 | * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF. | |
389 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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390 | |
391 | * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly | |
392 | by Roland McGrath. | |
393 | ||
c5af724c | 394 | * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek |
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395 | and Ulrich Drepper. |
396 | ||
397 | * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to | |
398 | RFC 3484. | |
3a601d31 | 399 | \f |
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400 | Version 2.3.2 |
401 | ||
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402 | * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data |
403 | were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. | |
404 | Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' | |
405 | object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. | |
406 | The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> | |
407 | create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function | |
408 | `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so | |
409 | parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added | |
410 | in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. | |
411 | ||
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412 | * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which |
413 | have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> | |
414 | and are now also available on the Hurd. | |
415 | ||
416 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64. | |
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417 | |
418 | * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. | |
419 | This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. | |
52a16e58 | 420 | |
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421 | * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for |
422 | PowerPC machines with no FPU. | |
423 | ||
52a16e58 | 424 | * fexecve is implemented on Linux. |
f9ad060c | 425 | |
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426 | * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to |
427 | specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. | |
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428 | |
429 | * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented | |
430 | in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This | |
431 | change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling | |
432 | of weak definition in ld.so. | |
433 | ||
434 | * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived | |
435 | at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately. | |
436 | ||
437 | * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The | |
438 | AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled. | |
747bf98e | 439 | \f |
03a2c647 | 440 | Version 2.3 |
37fb1084 | 441 | |
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442 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164 |
443 | charsets. | |
444 | ||
445 | * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding | |
446 | options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". | |
47e8b443 | 447 | |
bb0ec5bd | 448 | * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in |
47e8b443 | 449 | the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. |
c17f665b UD |
450 | |
451 | * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional | |
452 | tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. | |
8e57fc70 | 453 | |
bb0ec5bd | 454 | * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating |
91e6367e UD |
455 | copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of |
456 | the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
207b66ce UD |
457 | |
458 | * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based | |
459 | on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. | |
3b0bdc72 | 460 | |
bb0ec5bd | 461 | * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant |
3b0bdc72 | 462 | implementation of regex. |
02779eaa UD |
463 | |
464 | * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support | |
465 | Unicode 3.2. | |
be45f421 | 466 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
467 | * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are |
468 | not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. | |
be45f421 | 469 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
470 | * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF |
471 | thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. | |
472 | Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. | |
be45f421 UD |
473 | |
474 | * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, | |
f87277f2 | 475 | EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. |
a753ffb2 RM |
476 | |
477 | * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': | |
478 | BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. | |
479 | Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath. | |
6a9340b5 UD |
480 | |
481 | * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale | |
482 | archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
dd4f2115 UD |
483 | |
484 | * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions | |
485 | inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath, | |
486 | and Ulrich Drepper. | |
c843e065 RM |
487 | |
488 | * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux. | |
489 | \f | |
45061a15 RM |
490 | Version 2.2.6 |
491 | ||
492 | * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the | |
493 | old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3). | |
494 | ||
495 | * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file | |
496 | with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name. | |
03a2c647 | 497 | \f |
a8ae31c2 UD |
498 | Version 2.2.5 |
499 | ||
76321a25 AJ |
500 | * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the |
501 | 128-bit long double format. | |
a8ae31c2 | 502 | |
557a9213 UD |
503 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, |
504 | IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. | |
a8ae31c2 | 505 | |
ad2e4f18 | 506 | * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. |
a8ae31c2 | 507 | |
7d0c5823 RM |
508 | * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. |
509 | ||
a8ae31c2 UD |
510 | * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams |
511 | as well. | |
512 | ||
45061a15 RM |
513 | * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils |
514 | versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations. | |
8e57fc70 UD |
515 | |
516 | * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. | |
7d0c5823 | 517 | \f |
33996419 AJ |
518 | Version 2.2.4 |
519 | ||
2995f70e | 520 | * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh, |
aff17a50 | 521 | asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format. |
8fee1bb0 UD |
522 | |
523 | * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to | |
524 | support Unicode 3.1. | |
86dbe05e UD |
525 | |
526 | * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels. | |
527 | Patch by Isamu Hasegawa. | |
045fcd26 | 528 | |
69d5f925 | 529 | * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks. |
045fcd26 | 530 | |
69d5f925 | 531 | * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through |
045fcd26 UD |
532 | iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file. |
533 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
534 | ||
535 | * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty | |
536 | severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger. | |
537 | ||
538 | * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio | |
539 | extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath. | |
129d706d UD |
540 | |
541 | * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries. | |
33996419 | 542 | \f |
2ace5721 UD |
543 | Version 2.2.3 |
544 | ||
1746f2b0 | 545 | * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and |
2ace5721 UD |
546 | accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions |
547 | in float, double, and long double format. | |
548 | ||
f128331c | 549 | * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc, |
b8750342 UD |
550 | and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the |
551 | 128-bit long double format. | |
07f951e4 | 552 | |
e4d82761 UD |
553 | * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added. |
554 | The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv | |
555 | <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis | |
556 | <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>. | |
557 | ||
2ace5721 UD |
558 | * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed |
559 | after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments. | |
560 | No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
b8a8413c UD |
561 | |
562 | * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky | |
563 | <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>. | |
a66f0958 UD |
564 | |
565 | * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
566 | of functions for Linux/IA-64. | |
481b550f UD |
567 | |
568 | * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service | |
569 | of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum | |
570 | <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f128331c UD |
571 | |
572 | * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext | |
573 | family of functions for Linux/S390. | |
232fdf8c UD |
574 | |
575 | * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
576 | of functions for Linux/x86. | |
eacde9d0 UD |
577 | |
578 | * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications. | |
2ace5721 | 579 | \f |
306eeae5 UD |
580 | Version 2.2.2 |
581 | ||
464d97ec | 582 | * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir |
306eeae5 UD |
583 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The |
584 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
585 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
586 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
587 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
588 | other headers. | |
464d97ec UD |
589 | |
590 | * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly. | |
591 | Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>. | |
592 | ||
593 | * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles | |
594 | charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be | |
595 | provided and the conversion happens based on this data. | |
596 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
597 | ||
598 | * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed | |
599 | locales. While | |
600 | ||
601 | locale -a | |
602 | ||
603 | only lists the names of the supported locales | |
604 | ||
605 | locale -a --verbose | |
606 | ||
607 | provides details such as country, language, and codeset name. | |
608 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
306eeae5 | 609 | \f |
d2defdc4 UD |
610 | Version 2.2.1 |
611 | ||
612 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
613 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
614 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
615 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
616 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
617 | ||
618 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
619 | ||
620 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
621 | ||
622 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
aea6353a UD |
623 | |
624 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
625 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
626 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
234669e2 UD |
627 | |
628 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
629 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
630 | ||
631 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
632 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
633 | ||
634 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
d2defdc4 | 635 | \f |
2e92188d UD |
636 | Version 2.2 |
637 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
638 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
639 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
640 | is in progress. | |
641 | ||
2e92188d UD |
642 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
643 | ||
793bd4d9 | 644 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 645 | |
47b853e8 UD |
646 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
647 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
648 | ||
0013b2b1 UD |
649 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
650 | ||
abbffdf9 | 651 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 652 | |
6e8afc1c UD |
653 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
654 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
655 | ||
591e1ffb UD |
656 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
657 | ||
d3436b3c UD |
658 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
659 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
660 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
2588068b UD |
661 | |
662 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
663 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
664 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 665 | |
a00c3ca9 | 666 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
d3436b3c UD |
667 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
668 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
669 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
670 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
671 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
672 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
673 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
674 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
675 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
676 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
677 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
678 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
679 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
680 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
681 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
682 | ||
69173865 UD |
683 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
684 | ||
685 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
686 | ||
37fb8add UD |
687 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
688 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
689 | ||
594cee6c UD |
690 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
691 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
692 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
693 | ||
594cee6c UD |
694 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
695 | ||
696 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
697 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
698 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
699 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
700 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
701 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
702 | implemented for Linux. | |
703 | ||
3107c0c5 UD |
704 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
705 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
706 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
707 | versions. | |
708 | ||
d2830ba4 UD |
709 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
710 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
711 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
712 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
713 | ||
714 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
715 | Compiling the GNU C Library for Linux/ia64 | |
716 | ****************************************** | |
717 | ||
718 | Please refer to the file INSTALL in the same directory as you found | |
719 | this file for general information about configuring and compiling | |
720 | glibc. | |
721 | ||
722 | For general inquiries about glibc under Linux/ia64 please use the | |
723 | following mailing list linux-ia64@linuxia64.org or one of the relevant | |
724 | glibc mailing lists. | |
725 | ||
726 | Recommended Tools for Compilation | |
727 | ================================= | |
728 | ||
729 | In order for glibc-2.2 to build correctly on the ia64 you need at | |
730 | least the following versions of the GNU tools (the : | |
731 | ||
732 | * The Cygnus toolchain snapshot for the ia64 as of August 4 | |
aea6353a UD |
733 | including the provided set of patches. It is however recommend |
734 | you use the October 24 toolchain snapshot or a more recent version. | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
735 | |
736 | OR alternatively you can try the following (the Cygnus toolchain is | |
737 | the recommended solution): | |
738 | ||
739 | * GCC and binutils, GAS and GNU LD out of CVS from | |
aea6353a | 740 | sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree |
8f3f1e09 UD |
741 | may require special patches to work properly on the ia64. |
742 | ||
743 | Configuring and compiling GNU Libc for Linux/ia64 | |
744 | ================================================= | |
745 | ||
746 | The library requires Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test4-000728 or | |
aea6353a UD |
747 | later to funtion properly. Besides that it support for debug libraries |
748 | is currently untested. Hence the following options | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
749 | are required for configuring the library: |
750 | ||
aea6353a | 751 | --disable-debug --enable-kernel=2.4.0 |
8f3f1e09 UD |
752 | |
753 | It is also important that you make sure the library picks up the | |
754 | appropriate kernel header files, if you do not have recent enough | |
755 | kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include, you should use the | |
756 | --with-headers=<path> option to specify the location. | |
757 | ||
758 | As an example I personally use the following options to configure | |
759 | the library: | |
760 | ||
761 | --disable-debug | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
762 | --disable-cvs |
763 | --enable-kernel=2.4.0 | |
764 | --host=ia64-linux | |
765 | --enable-add-ons=yes | |
766 | --prefix=/usr | |
767 | --with-headers=/home/jes/linux/include | |
768 | ||
769 | ||
770 | Good luck | |
771 | ||
772 | Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>, | |
aea6353a | 773 | November 14th, 2000 |
8f3f1e09 | 774 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
6f2a8167 UD |
775 | \f |
776 | Version 2.1.3 | |
777 | ||
778 | * bug fixes | |
779 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
780 | \f |
781 | Version 2.1.2 | |
782 | ||
783 | * bug fixes | |
784 | ||
28f540f4 | 785 | \f |
e518937a UD |
786 | Version 2.1.1 |
787 | ||
27995311 UD |
788 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
789 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
790 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
791 | ||
407d26b7 | 792 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
793 | |
794 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
795 | ||
407d26b7 | 796 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 797 | |
407d26b7 | 798 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
799 | |
800 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 801 | |
554b8800 UD |
802 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
803 | ||
804 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
805 | ||
e518937a | 806 | \f |
c84142e8 UD |
807 | Version 2.1 |
808 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
809 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
810 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
811 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
812 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
813 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
814 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
815 | ||
c84142e8 | 816 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 817 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 818 | |
1fb05e3d | 819 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
c84142e8 UD |
820 | symbol level. |
821 | ||
822 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
823 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 824 | |
cbdee279 | 825 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
377a515b UD |
826 | |
827 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 828 | numbers. |
377a515b | 829 | |
cbdee279 | 830 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 831 | |
48869012 UD |
832 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
833 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 834 | |
813f4f4d UD |
835 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
836 | library. | |
837 | ||
e61abf83 | 838 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
839 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
840 | ||
841 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
842 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 843 | |
a5a0310d | 844 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 845 | |
a5a0310d UD |
846 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
847 | ||
848 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 849 | |
440d13e2 | 850 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
cbdee279 UD |
851 | |
852 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
853 | ||
854 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
2eb45444 UD |
855 | |
856 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 857 | |
48244d09 UD |
858 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
859 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
860 | ||
861 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
862 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
863 | ||
0dee6738 | 864 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 865 | |
0dee6738 | 866 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 867 | |
0dee6738 | 868 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 869 | |
0dee6738 | 870 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 871 | |
0dee6738 UD |
872 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
873 | ||
874 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
875 | ||
876 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 877 | |
48244d09 UD |
878 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
879 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 880 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 881 | |
0dee6738 UD |
882 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
883 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
ea278354 UD |
884 | |
885 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
48869012 UD |
886 | |
887 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
20833331 UD |
888 | |
889 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
890 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
891 | ||
892 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 893 | |
62595351 UD |
894 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
895 | Bambrough. | |
896 | ||
897 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
898 | latest draft standards. | |
899 | ||
1770a20d UD |
900 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
901 | ||
48244d09 UD |
902 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
903 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 904 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 905 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
62595351 UD |
906 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
907 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
908 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
909 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
910 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
911 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
912 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
913 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
914 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
915 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
e980ca92 UD |
916 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
917 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
918 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
919 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
920 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
921 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
922 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
923 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
924 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
925 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
926 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
927 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
928 | capget NEW: kernel | |
929 | capset NEW: kernel | |
930 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
931 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
932 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
933 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
934 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
935 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
936 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
937 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
938 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
939 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
940 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
941 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
942 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
943 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
944 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 945 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
946 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
947 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
948 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
949 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
950 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
951 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
952 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
953 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
954 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
955 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
956 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
957 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
958 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
959 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
960 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
961 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
962 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
963 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
964 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
965 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
966 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
967 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
968 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
969 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
970 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
971 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
972 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
973 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
974 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
975 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
976 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
977 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
978 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
979 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
980 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
981 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
982 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
983 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
984 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
985 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
986 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
987 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
988 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
989 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
990 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
991 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
992 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
993 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
994 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
995 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 996 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
997 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
998 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
999 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1000 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1001 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1002 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1003 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
1004 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
1005 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1006 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1007 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1008 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1009 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1010 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1011 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1012 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1013 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
1014 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1015 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
1016 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1017 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1018 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1019 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1020 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1021 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
1022 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1023 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
1024 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1025 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1026 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
1027 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1028 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1029 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1030 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1031 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1032 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1033 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1034 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1035 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 1036 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1037 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
1038 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
1039 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1040 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1041 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
1042 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
1043 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1044 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1045 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1046 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1047 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
1048 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
1049 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1050 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1051 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1052 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
1053 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
1054 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
1055 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
1056 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
1057 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
1058 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
1059 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
1060 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1061 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 1062 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1063 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
1064 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1065 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 UD |
1066 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
1067 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
1068 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
48244d09 UD |
1069 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
1070 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
1071 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
1072 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
1073 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 1074 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1075 | iconv NEW: iconv |
1076 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
1077 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
1078 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1079 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
1080 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1081 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1082 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
1083 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
1084 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
1085 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
1086 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 UD |
1087 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
1088 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1089 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
1090 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1091 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
1092 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
1093 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
1094 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
1095 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1096 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
1097 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1098 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1099 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1100 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1101 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1102 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1103 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1104 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1105 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1106 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1107 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1108 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1109 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1110 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1111 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
1112 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1113 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1114 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
1115 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
1116 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
1117 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1118 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1119 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1120 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1121 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1122 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1123 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
1124 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
1125 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
1126 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1127 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
1128 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
1129 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1130 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 1131 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1132 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
1133 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
1134 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
1135 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
1136 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
1137 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
1138 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
1139 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
1140 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
1141 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
1142 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1143 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1144 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
1145 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
1146 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
1147 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1148 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 1149 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1150 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
1151 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
1152 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
1153 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
1154 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1155 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1156 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1157 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1158 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1159 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1160 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
1161 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1162 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1163 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1164 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
1165 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
1166 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1167 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 1168 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1169 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
1170 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
1171 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1172 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
1173 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1174 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1175 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1176 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
1177 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
1178 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1179 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1180 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1181 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1182 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
1183 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
1184 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1185 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 1186 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1187 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
1188 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1189 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1190 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1191 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1192 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1193 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1194 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1195 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
1196 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1197 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1198 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1199 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1200 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
1201 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 1202 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 1203 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 1204 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1205 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 1206 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
1207 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
1208 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1209 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1210 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
1211 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1212 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1213 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1214 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1215 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
1216 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1217 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1218 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
1219 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
1220 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1221 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1222 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1223 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
1224 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1225 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1226 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1227 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1228 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1229 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
1230 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
1231 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 1232 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 1233 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 1234 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
1235 | \f |
1236 | Version 2.0.6 | |
1237 | ||
1238 | * more bug fixes | |
1239 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
1240 | \f |
1241 | Version 2.0.5 | |
1242 | ||
1243 | * more bug fixes | |
1244 | ||
1245 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
1246 | ||
1247 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
1248 | ||
1249 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
1250 | ||
1251 | * update of timezone data | |
1252 | \f | |
1253 | Version 2.0.4 | |
1254 | ||
1255 | * more bug fixes | |
1256 | \f | |
1257 | Version 2.0.3 | |
1258 | ||
1259 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 1260 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
1261 | Version 2.0.2 |
1262 | ||
1263 | * more bug fixes | |
1264 | ||
1265 | * add atoll function | |
1266 | ||
1267 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
1268 | |
1269 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
1270 | \f |
1271 | Version 2.0.1 | |
1272 | ||
1273 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
1274 | ||
1275 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
1276 | ||
1277 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
1278 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
1279 | ||
1280 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
1281 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 1282 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 1283 | |
d3669add RM |
1284 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
1285 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
1286 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
1287 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
1288 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
1289 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
1290 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
1291 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
1292 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
1293 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
1294 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
1295 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
1296 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
1297 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
1298 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
1299 | |
1300 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
1301 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
1302 | ||
1303 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
1304 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
1305 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
1306 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
1307 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
1308 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
1309 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
1310 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
1311 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
1312 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
1313 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 1314 | |
71733723 RM |
1315 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
1316 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
1317 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
1318 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
1319 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 1320 | |
f7eac6eb | 1321 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
1322 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
1323 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
1324 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
1325 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
1326 | ||
1327 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 1328 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
1329 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
1330 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
1331 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
1332 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
1333 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
1334 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
1335 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
1336 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
1337 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 1338 | |
49e522bf RM |
1339 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
1340 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
1341 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
1342 | ||
1343 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
1344 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
1345 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
1346 | ||
1347 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
1348 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
1349 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
1350 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
1351 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1352 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
1353 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
1354 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
1355 | ||
1356 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
1357 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
1358 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
1359 | ||
49e522bf RM |
1360 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
1361 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
1362 | ||
f7eac6eb | 1363 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 1364 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 1365 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
1366 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
1367 | ||
1368 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
1369 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
1370 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 1371 | |
71733723 | 1372 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
1373 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
1374 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
1375 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
1376 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
1377 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 1378 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 1379 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
1380 | |
1381 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
1382 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
1383 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
1384 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
1385 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
1386 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
1387 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
1388 | |
1389 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
1390 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
1391 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
1392 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
1393 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
1394 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
1395 | ||
1396 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
1397 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1398 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1399 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
1400 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
1401 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 1402 | |
28f540f4 RM |
1403 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
1404 | ||
1405 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
1406 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
1407 | their use is discouraged. | |
1408 | ||
1409 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
1410 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 1411 | |
22a1292a RM |
1412 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
1413 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
1414 | |
1415 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
1416 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
1417 | ||
1418 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
1419 | see <dirent.h>. | |
1420 | ||
1421 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
1422 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
1423 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
1424 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
1425 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
1426 | |
1427 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
1428 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
1429 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
1430 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
1431 | |
1432 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
1433 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
1434 | ||
1435 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
1436 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
1437 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
1438 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
1439 | number generator. | |
1440 | ||
1441 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
1442 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
1443 | ||
1444 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
1445 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
1446 | ||
71733723 | 1447 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 1448 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
1449 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
1450 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 1451 | |
d3669add RM |
1452 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
1453 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1454 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
1455 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
1456 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
1457 | ||
1458 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
1459 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 1460 | |
c709e372 | 1461 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
1462 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
1463 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
1464 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
1465 | ||
1466 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
1467 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
1468 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
1469 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
1470 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
1471 | |
1472 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
1473 | constants. | |
1474 | ||
1475 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
1476 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
1477 | ||
1478 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
1479 | a given effective group ID. | |
1480 | ||
1481 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
1482 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
1483 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
1484 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
1485 | ||
1486 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 1487 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
1488 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
1489 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
1490 | doing the same thing. | |
1491 | ||
1492 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
1493 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
1494 | ||
1495 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 1496 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
1497 | |
1498 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
1499 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
1500 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
1501 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
1502 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 1503 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 1504 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
1505 | |
1506 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
1507 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
1508 | |
1509 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
1510 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
1511 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
1512 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
1513 | |
1514 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
1515 | ||
1516 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
1517 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
1518 | strings. | |
1519 | ||
1520 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
1521 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
1522 | |
1523 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
1524 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
1525 | ||
1526 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
1527 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
1528 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
1529 | ||
1530 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
1531 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
1532 | ||
1533 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
1534 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
1535 | specification. | |
1536 | ||
1537 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
1538 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
1539 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
1540 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
1541 | ||
1542 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
1543 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
1544 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
1545 | ||
1546 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
1547 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
1548 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
1549 | expression matcher. | |
1550 | ||
1551 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
1552 | functionality. | |
1553 | ||
1554 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
1555 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1556 | ||
1557 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
1558 | ||
1559 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
1560 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
1561 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
28f540f4 RM |
1562 | \f |
1563 | Version 1.09 | |
1564 | ||
1565 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
1566 | ||
1567 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
1568 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1569 | ||
1570 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
1571 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
1572 | ||
1573 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
1574 | run without an operating system. | |
1575 | ||
1576 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
1577 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
1578 | ||
1579 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
1580 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
1581 | ||
1582 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
1583 | ||
1584 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
1585 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
1586 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
1587 | ||
1588 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
1589 | conventions. | |
1590 | ||
1591 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
1592 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
1593 | \f | |
1594 | Version 1.08 | |
1595 | ||
1596 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
1597 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
1598 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
1599 | ||
1600 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
1601 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
1602 | ||
1603 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
1604 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
1605 | ||
1606 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
1607 | ||
1608 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
1609 | ||
1610 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
1611 | compatibility. | |
1612 | ||
1613 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
1614 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
1615 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
1616 | ||
1617 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
1618 | ||
1619 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
1620 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
1621 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
1622 | ||
1623 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
1624 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
1625 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
1626 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
1627 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
1628 | on a block). | |
1629 | ||
1630 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
1631 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
1632 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
1633 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
1634 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
1635 | cross-compiler. | |
1636 | ||
1637 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
1638 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
1639 | \f | |
1640 | Version 1.07 | |
1641 | ||
1642 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
1643 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
1644 | ||
1645 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
1646 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
1647 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
1648 | ||
1649 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
1650 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
1651 | address of the last character written. | |
1652 | ||
1653 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
1654 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
1655 | ||
1656 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
1657 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
1658 | ||
1659 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
1660 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
1661 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
1662 | you dereference this pointer. | |
1663 | ||
1664 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
1665 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
1666 | ||
1667 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
1668 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
1669 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
1670 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
1671 | ||
1672 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
1673 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
1674 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
1675 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
1676 | \f | |
1677 | Version 1.06 | |
1678 | ||
1679 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
1680 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
1681 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
1682 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 1683 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
28f540f4 RM |
1684 | |
1685 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
1686 | ||
1687 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
1688 | ||
1689 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
1690 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
1691 | ||
1692 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
1693 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
1694 | ||
1695 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
1696 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
1697 | ||
1698 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
1699 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
1700 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
1701 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
1702 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
1703 | ||
1704 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
1705 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
1706 | ||
1707 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
1708 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
1709 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
1710 | malloc'd string. | |
1711 | ||
1712 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
1713 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
1714 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
1715 | ||
1716 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
1717 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
1718 | \f | |
1719 | Version 1.05 | |
1720 | ||
1721 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
1722 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
1723 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
1724 | ||
1725 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
1726 | characters. | |
1727 | ||
1728 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
1729 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
1730 | ||
1731 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
1732 | \f | |
1733 | Version 1.04 | |
1734 | ||
1735 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
1736 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
1737 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
1738 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
1739 | ||
1740 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
1741 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
1742 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
1743 | ||
1744 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
1745 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
1746 | ||
1747 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
1748 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
1749 | made itself into a shared library. | |
1750 | ||
1751 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
1752 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
1753 | ||
1754 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
1755 | with limited length. | |
1756 | ||
1757 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
1758 | ||
1759 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
1760 | ||
1761 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
1762 | ||
1763 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
1764 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
1765 | ||
1766 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
1767 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
1768 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
1769 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
1770 | ||
1771 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
1772 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
1773 | ||
1774 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
1775 | ||
1776 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
1777 | things to your strings. | |
1778 | ||
1779 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
1780 | ||
1781 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
1782 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
1783 | supporting those systems. | |
1784 | ||
1785 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
1786 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
1787 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
1788 | configuration files. | |
1789 | ||
1790 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
1791 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
1792 | ||
1793 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
56ddf355 UD |
1794 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
1795 | in <strings.h>.) | |
28f540f4 RM |
1796 | |
1797 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
1798 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
1799 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
1800 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
1801 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
1802 | required storage is not available. | |
1803 | ||
1804 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
1805 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
28f540f4 RM |
1806 | |
1807 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
1808 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
1809 | \f | |
1810 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
1811 | Copyright information: | |
1812 | ||
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e6a9beca | 1814 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
28f540f4 RM |
1815 | |
1816 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
1817 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
1818 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
1819 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
1820 | ||
1821 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
1822 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
1823 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
1824 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
1825 | \f | |
1826 | Local variables: | |
1827 | version-control: never | |
557a9213 | 1828 | End: |