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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 2.27.1
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10Major new features:
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12* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
13 Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
14 alternative month names.
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16Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
17
18 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
19 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
20 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
21 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
22 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
23 further explanation.
24
25 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
26 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
27 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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29Security related changes:
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31 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
32 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
33 or command injection issues in applications.
34
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35 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
36 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
37 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
38
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39 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
40 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
41
42 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
43 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
44 Izbyshev.
45
46 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
47 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
48 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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50The following bugs are resolved with this release:
51
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438b2796 53 [16335] Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of date
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54 [17343] Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
55 [20419] files with large allocated notes crash in open_verify
83d6db81 56 [21269] i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
9a219419 57 [22342] NSCD not properly caching netgroup
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58 [22638] sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built by gcc
59 configured with --enable-default-pie
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60 [22644] memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when crossing
61 2GB threshold
a573a314 62 [22735] Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
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63 [22786] Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
64 to SSIZE_MAX
56170e06 65 [22797] Linux: use reserved name __key in pkey_get
fbac9a26 66 [22807] PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3db5e600 67 [22818] posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
28def2cb 68 [22827] RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
c1b247e3 69 [22848] ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
dd5ed1e8 70 [22884] RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
bc7cdeb7 71 [22918] multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
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72 [22919] sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
73 [22926] FTBFS on powerpcspe
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74 [22932] lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR required
75 [22937] Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
dd5ed1e8 76 [22947] FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
c1b247e3 77 [22963] cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
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78 [23005] Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation failure
79 [23037] initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
80 [23069] sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
81 [23137] s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit and libc
82 build with -Os)
0c65d008 83 [23152] gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
da768de0 84 [23166] sunrpc: Remove stray exports without --enable-obsolete-rpc
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85 [23196] __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
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88Version 2.27
89
90Major new features:
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92* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
93 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 94 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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95 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
96 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
97 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
98 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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99 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
100 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 101
ac817e08 102* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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103 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
104 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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106* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
107
4cf82d23 108* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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110* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
111 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
112 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
113 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
114 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
115 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
116 from a security and performance perspective.
117
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118* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
119 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
120 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
121 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
122
81325b12 123* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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124 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
125 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
126 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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127 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
128
a23aa5b7 129* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 130 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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131 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
132 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
133 _Float128.
134
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135* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
136 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
137 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 138
4bab0224 139* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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141* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
142 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
143 pkey_get.
144
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145* The copy_file_range function was added.
146
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147* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
148
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149* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
150 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
151 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
152
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153* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
154 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
155 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
156 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
157 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
158 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
159 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
160
161 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
162 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
163 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
164 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
165 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
166 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
167 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
168
169 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
170 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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171 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
172 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
173 respectively.
174
175 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
176 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
177 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
178 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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180 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
181 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
182 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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184 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
185 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 186 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 187
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188* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
189 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
190 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
191
192 - rv64imac lp64
193 - rv64imafdc lp64
194 - rv64imafdc lp64d
195
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196Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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198* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
199 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 200 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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201 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
202 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
203 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
204 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
205 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
206 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
207 fix this.
208
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209* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
210 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
211 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
212
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213* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
214 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
215 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
216 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
217 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
218 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
219 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
220 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
221 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
222 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
223 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
224 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
225 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
226 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
227 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
228 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
229 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
230 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
231 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
232 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
233 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
234 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
235 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
236 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
237 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
238 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
239
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240* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
241 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 242
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243* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
244 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
245 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
246 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
247 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
248 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
249 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
250
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251* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
252 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
253 exp10l for these functions instead.
254
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255* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
256 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
257 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
258
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259* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
260 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
261 ignored.
262
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263* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
264 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
265 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
266 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
267
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268* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
269 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
270
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271* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
272 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
273
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274* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
275 programs.
276
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277* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
278
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279* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
280 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
281 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
282 instead.
283
284 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
285 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
286 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
287 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
288 use, but predates the bits convention.
289
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290Changes to build and runtime requirements:
291
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292* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
293 subdirectory.
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295Security related changes:
296
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297 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
298 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
299 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
300 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
301 script.)
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303 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
304 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
305 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
306 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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308 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
309 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
310 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
311 of service.
312
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313 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
314 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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315 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
316
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317 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
318 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
319 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
320 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
321
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322 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
323 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
324 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
325 Qualys.
326
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327 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
328 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
329 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
330 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
331 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
332
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333 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
334 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
335 current directory.
336
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337 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
338 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
339 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
340
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341 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
342 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
343 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
344
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345 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
346 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
347 small, instead of NULL.
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351 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
352 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
353 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
354 locale
355 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
356 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
357 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
358 cases
359 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
360 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
361 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
362 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
363 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
364 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
365 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
366 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
367 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
368 "Bangla"
369 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
370 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
371 width Latin characters
372 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
373 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
374 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
375 letters
376 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
377 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
378 (CVE-2009-5064)
379 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
380 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
381 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
382 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
383 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
384 if malloc succeeded
385 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
386 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
387 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
388 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
389 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
390 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
391 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
392 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
393 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
394 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
395 U+309A
396 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
397 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
398 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
399 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
400 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
401 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
402 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
403 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
404 for Nicaragua
405 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
406 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
407 are not found.
408 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
409 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
410 access
411 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
412 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
413 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
414 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
415 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
416 __regcall calling convention
417 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
418 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
419 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
420 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
421 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
422 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
423 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
424 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
425 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
426 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
427 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
428 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
429 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
430 locale
431 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
432 protector=all
433 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
434 wcwidth
435 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
436 consistency check failures
437 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
438 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
439 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
440 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
441 PIE
442 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
443 locales
444 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
445 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
446 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
447 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
448 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
449 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
450 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
451 on memory allocation failure
452 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
453 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
454 the suspect)
455 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
456 default (i386)
457 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
458 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
459 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
460 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
461 instead of EAI_NODATA
462 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
463 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
464 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
465 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
466 implementation
467 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
468 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
469 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
470 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
471 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
472 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
473 allocation in syscall loops)
474 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
475 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
476 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
477 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
478 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
479 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
480 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
481 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
482 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
483 occur with -O3
484 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
485 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
486 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
487 amounts)
488 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
489 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
490 niu_NZ
491 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
492 checks
493 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
494 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
495 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
496 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
497 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
498 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
499 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
500 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
501 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
502 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
503 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
504 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
505 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
506 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
507 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
508 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
509 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
510 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
511 parsing after OOM
512 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
513 object
514 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
515 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
516 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
517 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
518 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
519 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
520 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
521 ppc64le
522 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
523 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
524 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
525 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
526 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
527 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
528 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
529 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
530 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
531 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
532 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
533 math_force_eval
534 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
535 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
536 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
537 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
538 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
539 the svid compat wrapper
540 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
541 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
542 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
543 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
544 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
545 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
546 --verbose.
547 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
548 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
549 to 2.26
550 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
551 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
552 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
553 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
554 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
555 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
556 (CVE-2017-15804)
557 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
558 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
559 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
560 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
561 failure."
562 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
563 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
564 -m32
565 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
566 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
567 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
568 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
569 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
570 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
571 inside the ASCII printable range
572 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
573 -mlong-double-64
574 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
575 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
576 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
577 Internet
578 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
579 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
580 backslash
581 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
582 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
583 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
584 heaps in an arena
585 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
586 networking interface
587 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
588 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
589 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
590 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
591 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
592 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
593 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
594 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
595 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
596 order
597 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
598 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
599 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
600 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
601 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
602 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
603 same as for Croatian
604 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
605 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
606 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
607 for initial thread"
608 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
609 SC_SSIZE_MAX
610 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
611 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
612 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
613 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
614 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
615 (CVE-2017-1000408)
616 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
617 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
618 modified in case of success
619 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
620 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
621 success
622 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
623 stack-protector=all
624 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
625 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
626 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
627 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
628 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
629 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
630 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
631 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
632 adding it on top
633 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
634 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
635 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
636 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
637 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
638 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
639 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
640 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
641 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
642 (CVE-2018-1000001)
643 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
644 elision and tunables
645 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
646 "invalid" exception
647 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
648 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
649 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
650 exception
651 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
652 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
653 power4
654 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
655 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
656 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
657 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
658 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
659 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
660 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
661 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
662 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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666
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668
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670 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
671 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
672 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
673 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
674 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
675 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
676
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677* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
678 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 679 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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680 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
681 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
682 are rendered with pango, see for example:
683 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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685* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
686 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
687 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 688
2b2ccd0c 689* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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691 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
692 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
693 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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695 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
696 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
697 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
698 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
699 object are still limited to six search domains.
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702 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
703 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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705* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
706 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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708* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
709 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
710 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
711 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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713* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
714 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
715 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
716 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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718* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
719 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
720 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
721 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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723* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
724 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
725 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 727* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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728 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
729 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
730 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 732 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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733 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
734 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
735 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
736 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
737
738 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
739 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
740 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
741 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
742 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
743 interfaces should be used instead.
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746
747* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
748 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
749 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
750 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
751 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
752 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
753 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
754 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
755
756* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
757 removed.
758
759* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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761 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
762 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
763
764* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
765 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
766 default.
767
768 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
769 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
770 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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771 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
772 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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774 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
775 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
776 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
777 name service modules, to be built and installed.
778
779* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
780 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
781 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
782 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
783
784* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
785 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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788 exported by accident.
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790* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
791 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
792 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
793
794* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
795 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
796 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
797 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
798
799* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
800
801* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
802
803* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
804 free instead.
805
806* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
807 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
808
809* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
810 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
811
812* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
813 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
814 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
815 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
816 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
817 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
818 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
819 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
820
821* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
822 synced with the kernel:
823
824 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
825 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
826
827 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
828 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
829 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
830
831 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
832 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
833
834Changes to build and runtime requirements:
835
836* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
837 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
838 x86-32 and x86-64.)
839
7e368000 840* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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843 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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845 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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846 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
847 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
848 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 849 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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852
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854 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
855
856* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
857 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
858
859* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
860 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
861 (CVE-2010-3192).
862
863* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
864 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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869 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
870 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
871 fields
872 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
873 (CVE-2010-3192)
874 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
875 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
876 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
877 ld.bfd is available
878 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
879 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
880 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
881 x86 and other generic code
882 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
883 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
884 incorrect
885 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
886 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
887 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
888 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
889 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
890 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
891 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
892 resolver
893 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
894 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
895 order of 0D36 and 0D37
896 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
897 chillu characters
898 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
899 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
900 receiving data
901 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
902 whitespace
903 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
904 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
905 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
906 for Peru
907 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
908 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
909 failures consistently
910 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
911 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
912 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
913 frame-pointer on i386
914 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
915 register
916 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
917 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
918 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
919 generic c code is used
920 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
921 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
922 around 4000
923 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
924 (CVE-2017-12133)
925 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
926 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
927 with -lieee
928 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
929 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
930 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
931 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
932 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
933 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
934 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
935 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
936 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
937 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
938 remove()
939 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
940 checked for errors.
941 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
942 new posix_spawn implementation
943 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
944 leads to lower CPU frequency
945 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
946 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
947 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
948 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
949 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
950 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
951 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
952 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
953 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
954 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
955 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
956 not support gethostbyname4_r
957 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
958 switching
959 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
960 arenas
961 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
962 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
963 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
964 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
965 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
966 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
967 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
968 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
969 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
970 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
971 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
972 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
973 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
974 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
975 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
976 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
977 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
978 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
979 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
980 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
981 retry value
982 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
983 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
984 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
985 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
986 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
987 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
988 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
989 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
990 [21537] libc:
991 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
992 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
993 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
994 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
995 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
996 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
997 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
998 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
999 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1000 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1001 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1002 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1003 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1004 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1005 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1006 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1007 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1008 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1009 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1010 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1011 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1012 issue on x86-64
1013 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1014 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1015 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1016 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1017 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1018 construction
1019 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1020 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1021 between_2_3
1022 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1023 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1024 conditions
1025 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1026 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1027 Hindi Locale
1028 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1029 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1030 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1031 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1032 locale
1033 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1034 leading to relocation crash
1035 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1036 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1037 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1038 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1039 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1040 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1041 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1042 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1043 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1044 locale
1045 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1046 locale
1047 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1048 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1049 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1050 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1051 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1052 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1053 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1054 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1055 strings
1056 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1057 protector=all
1058 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1059 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1060 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1061 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1062 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1063 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1064 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1065 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1066 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1067 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1068 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1069 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1070 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1071 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1072 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1073 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1074 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1075 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1076 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1077 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1078 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1079 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1080 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1081 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1082 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1083 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1084 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1085 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1086 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1087 with unicode 9.0
1088 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1089 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1090 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1091 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1092 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1093
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1096
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1097* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1098 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1099 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1100 Library.
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1102* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1103 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1104 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1105 the GNU C Library.
1106
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1107* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1108 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1109 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1110 the GNU C Library.
1111
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1112* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1113 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1114 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1115 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1116 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1117 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1118 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1119 will not.
1120
1121 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1122 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1123 many years.
1124
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1125* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1126 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1127 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1128
1129 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1130 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1131 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1132 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1133 problem.
1134
ec94343f 1135* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1136 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1137 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1139* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1140 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1141 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1142 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1143 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1144 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1145 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1146 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1147 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1148 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1149 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1150 WINT_WIDTH.
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1152* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1153
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1154 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1155
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1156 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1157 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1158 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1159
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1160 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1161 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1162
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1163 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1164 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1165
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1166 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1167
29cb9293 1168 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1169
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1170 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1171 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1172
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1173 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1174
eb3c12c7 1175 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1176 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1177
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1178* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1179 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1180
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1181* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1182 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1183 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1184
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1185* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1186 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1187 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1188 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1189 effects of the memory clear).
1190
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1191* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1192 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1193 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1194 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1195
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1196* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1197 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1198 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1199 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1200 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1201 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1203* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1204 have been added.
1205
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1206* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1207 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1208 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1209 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1210 as large as several megabytes.
1211
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1212* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1213 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1214 been removed.
1215
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1216* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1217 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1218 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1219 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1220 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1221 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1222 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1223
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1224* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1225 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1226 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1227 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1228
099191b1 1229* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1230 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1231 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1232 Internet.
1233
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1234* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1235 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1236 They were already unimplemented.
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1238* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1239 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1240 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1241 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1242
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1243* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1244 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1245 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1246 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1247 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1248
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1249* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1250 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1251 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1252 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1253 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1254
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1255* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1256 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1257 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1258 did not reflect that.
1259
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1260* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1261 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1262 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1263 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1264 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1265 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1266 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1267 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1268
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1269* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1270 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1271 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1272 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1273
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1274* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1275 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1276 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1277 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1278
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1279* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1280 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1281 guarantees.
1282
1283* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1284 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1285 make state changes.
1286
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1288
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1290 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1291 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1292 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1293 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1295* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1296 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1297 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1298 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1299 (CVE-2015-5180)
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1302
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1303 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1304 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1305 protector-all
1306 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1307 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1308 before it started waiting
1309 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1310 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1311 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1312 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1313 wrong type
1314 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1315 library linked with pthread
1316 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1317 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1318 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1319 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1320 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1321 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1322 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1323 when it shouldnt
1324 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1325 not
1326 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1327 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1328 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1329 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1330 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1331 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1332 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1333 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1334 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1335 termination
1336 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1337 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1338 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1339 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1340 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1341 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1342 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1343 causes a segmentation fault
1344 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1345 linking
1346 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1347 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1348 uninitialized GOT
1349 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1350 versions
1351 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1352 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1353 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1354 is always true.
1355 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1356 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1357 modes
1358 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1359 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1360 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1361 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1362 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1363 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1364 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1365 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1366 libpthread.a
1367 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1368 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1369 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1370 _res_hconf
1371 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1372 information.
1373 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1374 penalty
1375 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1376 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1377 cause transition penalty
1378 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1379 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1380 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1381 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1382 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1383 mcount.oS)
1384 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1385 Checking
1386 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1387 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1388 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1389 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1390 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1391 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1392 multi-arch
1393 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1394 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1395 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1396 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1397 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1398 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1399 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1400 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1401 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1402 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1403 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1404 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1405 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1406 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1407 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1408 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1409 glibc
1410 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1411 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1412 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1413 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1414 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1415 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1416 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1417 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1418 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1419 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1420 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1421 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1422 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1423 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1424 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1425 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1426 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1427 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1428 RES_USE_INET6
1429 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1430 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1431 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1432 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1433 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1434 wrong condition
1435 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1436 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1437 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1438 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1439 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1440 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1441 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1442 clang
1443 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1444 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1445 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1446 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1447 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1448\f
11fca961
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1449Version 2.24
1450
5b4ecd3f
JM
1451* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1452 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1453 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1454 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1455 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1456 architectures.
1457
b6ebba70
MF
1458* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1459 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1460 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1461
7584a3f9
FW
1462* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1463 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1464
b49ab5f4
FW
1465* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1466 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1467 instead of “union wait”.
1468
ced8f893
SG
1469* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1470 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1471 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1472 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1473 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1474 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1475 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1476
2ba3cfa1
FW
1477* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1478 API.
1479
b7a9b7b0
MF
1480* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1481 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1482 drop it.
6a54bcda 1483
41a359e2
RS
1484* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1485 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1486 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1487 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1488 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1489 extensions.
1490
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1491Security related changes:
1492
f5b3338d
FW
1493* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1494 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1495 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1496
4ab2ab03
FW
1497* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1498 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1499 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1500 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1501
5171f307
FW
1502* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1503 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1504 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1505
bc779a1a
FW
1506* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1507 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1508 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1509
fab38231
FW
1510* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1511 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1512 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1513 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1514
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1515The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1516
3c4f81ec
CD
1517 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1518 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1519 of MS-DOS.
1520 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1521 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1522 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1523 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1524 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1525 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1526 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1527 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1528 CLDR data
1529 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1530 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1531 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1532 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1533 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1534 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1535 romanisation
1536 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1537 and +/-
1538 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1539 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1540 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1541 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1542 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1543 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1544 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1545 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1546 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1547 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1548 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1549 all locales
1550 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1551 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1552 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1553 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1554 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1555 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1556 execute
1557 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1558 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1559 -Wsystem-headers
1560 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1561 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1562 Romanian locale data
1563 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1564 symbol
1565 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1566 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1567 language
1568 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1569 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1570 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1571 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1572 machine
1573 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1574 description
1575 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1576 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1577 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1578 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1579 when using RTLD_NEXT
1580 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1581 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1582 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1583 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1584 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1585 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1586 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1587 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1588 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1589 Excavator core
1590 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1591 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1592 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1593 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1594 double range
1595 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1596 part zero incorrect
1597 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1598 equality tests
1599 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1600 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1601 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1602 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1603 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1604 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1605 glibc-2.22
1606 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1607 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1608 'tst-numeric.c'
1609 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1610 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1611 low part
1612 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1613 result
1614 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1615 unaligned stack
1616 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1617 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1618 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1619 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1620 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1621 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1622 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1623 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1624 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1625 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1626 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1627 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1628 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1629 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1630 modes
1631 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1632 server addresses
1633 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1634 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1635 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1636 response to getaddrinfo
1637 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1638 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1639 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1640 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1641 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1642 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1643 sometimes incorrect
1644 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1645 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1646 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1647 record types
1648 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1649 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1650 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1651 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1652 (CVE-2016-3075)
1653 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1654 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1655 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1656 resolving symbols
1657 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1658 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1659 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1660 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1661 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1662 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1663 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1664 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1665 gethosts
1666 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1667 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1668 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1669 (CVE-2016-3706)
1670 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1671 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1672 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1673 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1674 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1675 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1676 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1677 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1678 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1679 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1680 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1681 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1682 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1683 executable
1684 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1685 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1686 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1687 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1688 XPG3
1689 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1690 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1691 (CVE-2016-4429)
1692 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1693 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1694 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1695 AS not supporting AVX512
1696 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1697 sNaN argument
1698 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1699 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1700 argument
1701 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1702 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1703 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1704 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1705 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1706 eax=0x80000001
1707 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1708 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1709 subnormals
1710 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1711 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1712 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1713 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1714 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1715 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1716 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1717 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1718 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1719 input
1720 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1721 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1722 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1723 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1724 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1725 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1726 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1727 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1728 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1729 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1730 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1731 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1732 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1733 double rounding
1734 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1735 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1736 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1737 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1738 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1739 (Only arm/linux)
1740 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1741 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1742 fallbacks
1743 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1744 "invalid" exceptions
1745 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1746 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1747 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1748 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1749 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1750 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1751 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1752 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1753 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1755Version 2.23
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1757* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1758 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1759 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1760 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1761 89, 16061, and 18568.
1762
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1763* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1764 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1765 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1766 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1767 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1768 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1769 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1770
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1771* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1772 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1773 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1774
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1775* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1776 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1777 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1778 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1779 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1780 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1781 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1782
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1783* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1784 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1785 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1786 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1787 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1788 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1789 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1790 Ericsson.)
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1792* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1793 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1794 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1795 independent of the GNU C Library.
1796
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1797* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1798 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1800* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1801 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1802 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1803 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1804 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1805 Linux kernel.
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1808 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1810* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1811 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1812 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1813 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1814 defining their own copy.
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1816* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1817 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1818 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1820Security related changes:
1821
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1822* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1823 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1824
1825* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1826 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1827 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1828 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1829 (CVE-2015-8777)
1830
1831* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1832 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1833
1834* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1835 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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1837* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1838 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1839 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1841* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1842 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1843 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1844 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1845 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1846 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1847 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1848 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1849 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1850 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1851 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1852 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1853 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1854
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1857 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1858 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1859 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1860 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1861 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1862 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1863 use `mkstemp'
1864 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1865 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1866 overflow/underflow errors
1867 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1868 overflow/underflow
1869 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1870 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1871 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1872 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1873 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1874 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1875 are not contiguous
1876 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1877 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1878 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1879 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1880 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1881 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1882 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1883 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1884 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1885 all exceptions
1886 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1887 arguments
1888 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1889 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1890 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1891 should include
1892 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1893 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1894 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1895 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1896 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1897 GNU/Linux
1898 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1899 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1900 arguments
1901 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1902 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1903 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1904 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1905 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1906 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1907 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1908 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1909 rounding results
1910 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1911 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1912 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1913 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1914 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1915 fails
1916 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1917 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1918 block boundary
1919 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1920 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1921 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1922 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1923 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1924 4.7?
1925 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1926 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1927 (related to lock elision)
1928 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1929 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1930 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1931 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1932 (CVE-2015-8779)
1933 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1934 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1935 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1936 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1937 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1938 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1939 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1940 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1941 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1942 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1943 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1944 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1945 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1946 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1947 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1948 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1949 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1950 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1951 contains a vector instruction exception.
1952 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1953 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1954 locales
1955 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1956 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1957 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1958 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1959 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1960 missing break ?
1961 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1962 32bit processes
1963 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1964 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1965 infinity
1966 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1967 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1968 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1969 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1970 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1971 be forced unloaded
1972 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1973 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1974 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1975 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1976 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1977 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1978 statically too large
1979 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1980 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1981 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1982 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1983 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1984 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1985 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1986 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1987 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1988 FUTEX_SHARED
1989 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1990 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1991 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1992 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1993 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1994 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1995 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1996 opendir()
1997 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1998 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1999 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2000 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2001 signgam
2002 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2003 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2004 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2005 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2006 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2007 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2008 dependencies
2009 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2010 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2011 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2012 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2013 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2014 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2015 (CVE-2015-8776)
2016 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2017 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2018 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2019 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2020 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2021 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2022 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2023 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2024 contention
2025 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2026 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2027 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2028 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2029 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2030 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2031 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2032 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2033 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2034 rounding modes
2035 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2036 ILP32
2037 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2038 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2039 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2040 threshold
2041 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2042 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2043 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2044 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2045 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2046 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2047 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2048 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2049 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2050 pthread_setaffinity_np
2051 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2052 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2053 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2054 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2055 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2056 prelink
2057 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2058 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2059 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2060 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2061 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2062 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2063 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2064 bits/mathcalls.h
2065 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2066 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2067 for C99-based standards
2068 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2069 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2070 math-only
2071 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2072 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2073 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2074 disabled
2075 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2076 "inexact" exceptions
2077 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2078 arguments
2079 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2080 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2081 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2082 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2083 rules
2084 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2085 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2086 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2087 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2088 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2089 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2090 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2091 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2092 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2093 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2094 from 32bit
2095 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2096 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2097 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2098 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2099 subnormals
2100 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2101 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2102 error on 32-bit architectures
2103 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2104 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2105 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2106 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2107 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2108 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2109 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2110 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2111 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2112 -Os
2113 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2114 CPU's.
2115 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2116 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2117 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2118 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2119 architectures
2120 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2123
2124* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2125
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2127 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2128 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2129 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2130 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2131 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2132 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2133 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2134 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2135 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2136 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2137 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2138 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2139 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2140 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2141 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2142 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2143 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
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2144 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2145 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2146
f7fba805
SL
2147* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2148 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2149
2959eda9
AS
2150* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2151 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2152 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2153 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2154 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2155 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2156
42261ad7
FW
2157* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2158 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2159 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2160 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2161 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2162
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AM
2163* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2164 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2165 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2166
4a4839c9
AO
2167* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2168 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2169 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2170 17998.
2171
b13b96ca
AS
2172* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2173 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2174 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2175
2176* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2177 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2178 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2179 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2180 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2181 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2182 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2183 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2184
2185* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2186 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2187 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2188 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2189
2190* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2191 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2192 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2193
2194* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2195 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2196
2197* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2198 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2199 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2200
a03ba363 2201 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2202 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2203 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2205Version 2.21
2206
2207* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2208
042e1521 2209 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2210 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2211 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2212 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2213 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2214 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2215 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2216 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2217 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2218 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2219 17892.
2220
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FW
2221* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2222 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2223 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2224 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2225 intended.
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2226
2227* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2228 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2229 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2230 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2231 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2232 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2233
522e6ee3
CLT
2234* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2235
d3b00f46
AZ
2236* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2237 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2238 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2239
8d2c0a59
AZ
2240* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2241 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2242 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2243 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2244 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2245 effects being visible outside transactions.
2246
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RE
2247* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2248 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2249
0f9dfe04
L
2250* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2251
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2252* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2253 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2254 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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2255 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2256 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2257
a5357b7c
JL
2258* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2259 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2260
e54db0ea
AM
2261* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2262 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2263 format.
11e3417a 2264
4863355a
JM
2265* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2266 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2267 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2268
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JM
2269* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2270 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2271
0d560bbf 2272* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2273
2274* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2275 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2276 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2277 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2278
2279* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2280 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2281
2282* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2283 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2284 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2285 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2286 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2287 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2288 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2289 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2290 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2291 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2292 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2293 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2294 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2295
2296 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2297 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2298 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2299 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2300 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2301\f
d5b396c1
AM
2302Version 2.20
2303
2304* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2305
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2306 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2307 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2308 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2309 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2310 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2311 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2312 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2313 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2314 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2315 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2316 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2317 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2318 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2319 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2320 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2321
95ee7fb1
SL
2322* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2323 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2324 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2325 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2326 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2327 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2328 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2329 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2330 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2331 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2332
0961f7e1
JL
2333* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2334 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2335 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2336 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2337 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2338
f940b965
RE
2339* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2340
d0f5b3f8
JM
2341* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2342 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2343
d6fe5e58
JM
2344* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2345 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2346 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2347 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2348 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2349 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2350
464263cc
JM
2351* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2352 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2353
2354* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2355 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2356 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2357 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2358 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2359 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2360 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2361
2362* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2363
2364* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2365 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2366 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2367 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2368 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2369 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2370 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2371
2372* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2373 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2374 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2375 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2376 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2377
2378* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2379 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2380 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2381
2382* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2383 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2384 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2385 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2386
2387* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2388 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2389 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2390 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2391 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2392 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2393 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2394 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2395
2396* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2397 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2398 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2399 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2400 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2401 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2402 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2403 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2404 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2405
2406* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2407 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2408 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2409 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2410 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2411 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2412
2413* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2414 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2415 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2416 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2417\f
2418Version 2.19
2419
2420* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2421
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JM
2422 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2423 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2424 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2425 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2426 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2427 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2428 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2429 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2430 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2431 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2432 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2433 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2434 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2435 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2436 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2437 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2438 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2439 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2440
11520a57
CD
2441* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2442 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2443
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CD
2444* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2445 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2446 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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CD
2447 extension which uses __block.
2448
303e567a
SP
2449* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2450 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2451 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2452 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2453 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2454
141f3a77
SP
2455* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2456 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2457 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2458 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2459 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2460
2461* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2462 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2463 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2464 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2465 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2466
2467* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2468 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2469 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2470
ba0d798c
WN
2471* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2472 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2473 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2474 #15856, #15857).
2475
7cbcdb36
SP
2476* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2477 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2478
82bab04b 2479* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2480 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2481
c5f840fd
MB
2482* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2483
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CD
2484* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2485 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2486
3e181dda 2487* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2488
8a05c252
CL
2489* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2490
6055173a
JM
2491* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2492 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2493 for which the C library was built.
2494
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JM
2495* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2496 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2497 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2498 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2499 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2500 in the following circumstances:
2501
2502 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2503
2504 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2505 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2506
d4f66d37
JM
2507* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2508 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2509
3e181dda
CD
2510* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2511 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2512
ffb89e53
AO
2513* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2514
5d29ccce
SP
2515* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2516 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2517
8b7d57cd 2518* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2519
2520* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2521
fd712ef3 2522* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2523
c688b419
JM
2524* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2525 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2526 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2527 disable some of those declarations.
2528
7011c262 2529* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
2530 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2531 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2532
2533* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2534 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2535
2536* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2537 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2538 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2539 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2540 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2541 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2542 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2543 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2544 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2545 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2546 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2547 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2548 require recompilation.
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2550Version 2.18
2551
2552* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2553
17db6e8d 2554 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
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2555 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2556 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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2557 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2558 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2559 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2560 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2561 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2562 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2563 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2564 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2565 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2566 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2567 15755, 15759.
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2568
2569* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2570 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2571 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2572 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2573 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2574 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2575
5b535ac4
AS
2576* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2577 #15078).
2578
1cef1b19
AS
2579* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2580 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2581
55e4107b
SP
2582* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2583 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2584 destructor calls to glibc.
2585
e5c74c63
SP
2586* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2587 output.
2588
2589* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2590 non-x86 architectures.
2591
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2592* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2593
2594* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2595
2596* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2597 Richard Henderson.
2598
2599* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2600
2601* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2602 Richard Henderson.
2603
2604* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2605 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2606
8cfdb7e0
SP
2607* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2608
57267616
TS
2609* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2610 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2611
c204ab28
SP
2612* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2613 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2614
0748546f
PE
2615* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2616 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2617 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2618
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2619* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2620 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2621 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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2622
2623* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2624 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2625 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2626 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2627 mutexes.
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2628
2629* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2630 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2631
2632* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2633\f
2634Version 2.17
2635
2636* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2637
80ceeaee 2638 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
2639 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2640 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2641 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2642 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2643 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2644 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2645 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2646 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2647 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2648 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2649 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2650 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2651 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2652 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2653
95b4f1b6
SE
2654* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2655
14bc93a9
JL
2656* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2657 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2658
b54eb3cb
JM
2659* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2660 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2661
7e2bd01f
MS
2662* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2663
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AK
2664* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2665 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2666 zEnterprise z196.
2667 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2668
84b3fd84
FW
2669* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2670 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2671 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2672
815e6fa3
GB
2673* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2674 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2675
400726de
MK
2676* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2677 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2678
7aab07e4 2679* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2680 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2681
15d0da8c
WS
2682* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2683 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2684
3cc3ef96
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2685* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2686 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2687 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2688 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2689
b54eb3cb
JM
2690* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2691 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2692
85429b1a 2693* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2694 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2695 default.
2696
b54eb3cb
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2697* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2698 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2699 information in --help and --version output.
2700
050af9c4
SP
2701* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2702 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2703 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2704
89a3ad0b
AO
2705* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2706 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2707 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2708 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2709 when the mode is enabled.
2710
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2711* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2712 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2713 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2714 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2715 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2716 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2717 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2718
d9286582
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2719* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2720 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2721\f
2722Version 2.16
2723
2724* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2725
a8133e19
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2726 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2727 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2728 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2729 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2730 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2731 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2732 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2733 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2734 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2735 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2736 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2737 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2738 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2739 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2740 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2741 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2742 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2743 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2744 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2745 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2746 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2747 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2748 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2749
a086b4d6
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2750* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2751 configuring glibc with:
2752 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2753 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2754 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2755
380d7e87
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2756* ISO C11 support:
2757
2758 + define static_assert
2759
2760 + do not declare gets
2761
2762 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2763
2764 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2765 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2766 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2767 implementation.
8d44e150 2768
74033a25 2769 + timespec_get added
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2770
2771 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2772
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2773 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2774
16dd419d
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2775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2776
9dc4e1fb 2777* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2778
2779* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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2780
2781* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2783
2784* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2786
2787* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2788 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2789 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2790 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2791 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2792
21708942 2793* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2794 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2795 before 2.6.
83678f76 2796
edb00e4d
RH
2797* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2798 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2799 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2800
83678f76 2801* New locales: mag_IN
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2802
2803* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2804 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2805 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2806 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2807 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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2808
2809* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2810
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2811* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2812 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2813
2814* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2815
2816* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2817 without a previously built glibc.
2818
2819* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2820 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2821
2822* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2823 now supported for ARM processors.
2824
2825* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2826 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2827 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2828
2829* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2830
2831* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2832 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2833 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2834 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
2835
2836* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2837 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2838 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2839 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2840
2841* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2842 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2843 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2844 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2845 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2846
2847* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2848 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2849 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2850 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2851\f
e80fab37 2852Version 2.15
11988f8f 2853
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2854* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2855
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2856 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2857 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2858 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2859 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2860 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2861 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2862 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2863
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2864* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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2866
2867* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2868 and support for initgroups lookups.
2869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
2870
2871* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2872 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2873
2874* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2875 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2876
fc2ee42a
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2877* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2878 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2879 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2880
d42964a0 2881* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2882 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2883
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2884* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2885 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2886 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2887
c55fbd1e
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2888* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2889 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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2890
2891* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2893
2894* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2896
2897* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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2899
2900* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2901 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2902
2903* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2905
2906* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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2907
2908* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2909 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2910
f0b264f1
AZ
2911* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2912 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2913
6b64057b 2914* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 2915\f
dded88cd 2916Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 2917
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2918* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2919
553149f6 2920 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2921 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2922 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2923 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2924 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2925 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2926 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2927 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2928 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2929 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2930
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2931* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2932 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2933 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2934 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2935
2936 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2937 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2938 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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2939 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2940
c6489db3 2941* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2942 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2943
72d1dddb 2944* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2945 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2946
2947* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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2948
2949* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2950 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2951
2952* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2953 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2954 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2955 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2957Version 2.13
2958
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2960
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2961 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2962 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2963 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2964 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2965 12378, 12394, 12397
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10b3bedc 2967* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2968
ac2b484c 2969* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2971* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2972 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2975Version 2.12
2976
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2977* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2978
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2979 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2980 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2981 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2982 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2983 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2984 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2985 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2986 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2988* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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2990* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2991
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2992* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2993
2994* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2995 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2997
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2998* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2999 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3000 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3001 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3002 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3003
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3006Version 2.11
3007
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3008* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3009
3010 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3011 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3012 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3013 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3014 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3015 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
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3017* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3018 mkostemps64
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3019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3020
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3022 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3023
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3024* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3025 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3026
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3027* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3028
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9d36a6c4 3030 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3031 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3032 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3033
9d36a6c4 3034 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3036
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3037* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3038 strstr, strcasestr.
3039 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3040
3041* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3042 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3043
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3044* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3045 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3046
3047* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3048 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3049
3050* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3051 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3052 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3053 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3054 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3055 necessity is every process again.
3056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3057
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3058* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3059 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3060
3061* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3062 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3063
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3064* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3065 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3067
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3070Version 2.10
3071
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3072* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3073
3074 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3075 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3076 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3077 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3078 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3079
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3081 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3082
425ce2ed 3083* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3085
1fdd89a7 3086* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3087 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3089* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3090 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3091
1f04d005 3092* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3095* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3096 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3097
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3098* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3099 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3100
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3101* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3102 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3103
3104* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3105 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3106 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3107
735be400 3108* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3110* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3112
3113* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3114 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3116
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3117* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3118 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3120* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3121 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3122 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3123 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3124 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3125 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3127Version 2.9
3128
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3129* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3130
3131 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3132 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3133 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3134 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3135 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3136
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3138 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3139
3140* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3141 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3142
3143* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3145
3146* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3147 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3149
3150* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3151 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3154
3155* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3156 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3158* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3159 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3160 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3161 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3162
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3163* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3164 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3166* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3167 Sinhala)
48b22986 3168 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3170* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3172Version 2.8
3173
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3174* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3175
3176 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3177 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3178 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3179 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3180 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3181 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3182 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3183
e038616f 3184* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3185
77751669 3186* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3188* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3189 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3190
3191* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3192
3193* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3195
3196* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
3199* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3200 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3201 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3202
3203* Faster memset for x86-64.
3204 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3205
3206* Faster memcpy on x86.
3207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3208
3209* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3210 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3212* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3213 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3215Version 2.7
3216
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3217* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3218
3219 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3220 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3221 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3222 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3223 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3224
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3225* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3226 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3227
3228* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3229
3230* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3231 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3232 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3233
3234* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3235 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3236
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3238 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3239
3240* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3241
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3242* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3244
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3245* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3246 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3247
3248* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3249 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3250
3251* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3252
3253* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3254 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3255
3256* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3257 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3258 yo_NG.
3259
3260+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3265* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3266
3267 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3268 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3269 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3270 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3271 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3272 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3273 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3274 4702, 4858
3275
bce20b9a 3276* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3278* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3279
b21fa963 3280* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3282Version 2.5
3283
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3284* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3285
3286 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3287 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3288 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3289 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3290 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3291 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3292 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3293 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3294 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3295
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3297 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3300* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3302
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3305* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3307* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3308 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3309 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3311 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3312
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3314 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3315 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3317
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3318* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3319 Ulrich Drepper.
3320
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3321* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3322
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3323* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3324 Ulrich Drepper.
3325
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3326* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3327
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3328* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3329 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3332
3333* More overflow detection functions.
3334
3335* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3336 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3338 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3339 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3340 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3341 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3342 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3343 by Masahide Washizawa.
3344
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3345* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3346 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3348* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3349 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3350 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3351 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3353* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3354 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3355
3356* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3357
3358* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3359 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3360 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3361
3362* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3363 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3364
3365* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3366 for compatibility with some other systems.
3367
3368* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3370Version 2.3.6
3371
3372* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3373
3374 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3375 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3376 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3377 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3378 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3379 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3380
3381 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3382
3383* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3384
3385* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3387Version 2.3.5
3388
3389* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3390
3391 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3392 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3393 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3394 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3395
3396 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3398Version 2.3.4
3399
3400* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3401 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3402
3403* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3404 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3405 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3406
3407* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3408 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3409
0325dd20 3410* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3411 efficiently.
3412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3413
3414* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3415 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3416 handling data.
3417
3418* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3419 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3420 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3421
3422* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3423 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3424
3425* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3426 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3427 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3428 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3429
3430* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3431 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3432 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3433 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3434
3435* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3436 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3437 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3438 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3439 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3441Version 2.3.3
3442
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3443* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3444 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3445
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3446* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3447 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3448
69be6aaf 3449* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3450 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3451
3452* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3455* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3456 by Roland McGrath.
3457
c5af724c 3458* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3459 and Ulrich Drepper.
3460
3461* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3462 RFC 3484.
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3464Version 2.3.2
3465
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3466* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3467 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3468 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3469 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3470 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3471 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3472 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3473 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3474 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3475
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3476* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3477 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3478 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3479
3480* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3481
3482* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3483 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3484
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3485* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3486 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3487
52a16e58 3488* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3490* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3491 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3492
3493* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3494 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3495 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3496 of weak definition in ld.so.
3497
3498* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3499 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3500
3501* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3502 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3506* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3507 charsets.
3508
3509* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3510 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3511
bb0ec5bd 3512* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3513 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3514
3515* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3516 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3517
bb0ec5bd 3518* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3519 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3520 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3521
3522* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3523 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3524
bb0ec5bd 3525* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3526 implementation of regex.
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3527
3528* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3529 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3530
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3531* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3532 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3533
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3534* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3535 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3536 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3537
3538* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3539 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3540
3541* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3542 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3543 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3544
3545* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3546 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3547
3548* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3549 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3550 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3551
3552* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3554Version 2.2.6
3555
3556* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3557 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3558
3559* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3560 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3562Version 2.2.5
3563
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3564* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3565 128-bit long double format.
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3567* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3568 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3569
ad2e4f18 3570* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3571
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3572* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3573
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3574* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3575 as well.
3576
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3577* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3578 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3579
3580* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3582Version 2.2.4
3583
2995f70e 3584* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3585 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3586
3587* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3588 support Unicode 3.1.
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3589
3590* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3591 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3592
69d5f925 3593* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3594
69d5f925 3595* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3596 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3597 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3598
3599* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3600 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3601
3602* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3603 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3604
3605* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3607Version 2.2.3
3608
1746f2b0 3609* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3610 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3611 in float, double, and long double format.
3612
f128331c 3613* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3614 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3615 128-bit long double format.
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3617* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3618 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3619 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3620 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3621
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3622* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3623 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3624 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3625
3626* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3627 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3628
3629* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3630 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3631
3632* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3633 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3634 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3635
3636* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3637 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3638
3639* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3640 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3641
3642* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3644Version 2.2.2
3645
464d97ec 3646* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3647 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3648 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3649 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3650 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3651 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3652 other headers.
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3653
3654* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3655 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3656
3657* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3658 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3659 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3660 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3661
3662* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3663 locales. While
3664
3665 locale -a
3666
3667 only lists the names of the supported locales
3668
3669 locale -a --verbose
3670
3671 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3672 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3674Version 2.2.1
3675
3676* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3677 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3678 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3679 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3680 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3681
3682 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3683
3684 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3685
3686 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3687
3688* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3689 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3690 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3691
3692* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3693 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3694
3695* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3696 changed from the default "C" locale.
3697
3698* The usual bug fixes.
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3700Version 2.2
3701
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3702* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3703 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3704 is in progress.
3705
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3706* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3707
793bd4d9 3708* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3710 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3711 obviously requires a database library being available.
3712
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3713* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3714
abbffdf9 3715* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3716
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3717* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3718 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3719
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3720* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3721
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3722* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3723 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3724 and Mark Kettenis.
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3725
3726 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3727 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3728 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3729
a00c3ca9 3730 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3731 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3732
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3733* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3734 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3735 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3736
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3737* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3738 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3739 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3741
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3742 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3743 structures for the wide character tables.
3744
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3745* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3746
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3747* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3748
3749* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3750
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3751* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3752 and Yutaka Niibe.
3753
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3754* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3755
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3756* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3757
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3758* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3759
3760* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3761
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3762* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3763
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3764* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3765 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3766 implemented for Linux.
3767
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3768* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3769 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3770 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3771 versions.
3772
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3773* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3774 Masahide Washizawa.
3775
8f3f1e09 3776* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3778Version 2.1.3
3779
3780* bug fixes
3781
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3783Version 2.1.2
3784
3785* bug fixes
3786
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3788Version 2.1.1
3789
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3790* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3791
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3792* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3793
407d26b7 3794* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3795
3796* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3797
407d26b7 3798* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3799
407d26b7 3800* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3801
3802* Update timezone data files.
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3804* lots of charmaps corrections
3805
3806* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3807
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3810
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3811* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3812 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3813 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3814 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3815 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3816 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3817
c84142e8 3818* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3819 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3820
1fb05e3d 3821* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3822 symbol level.
3823
3824* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3825 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3826
cbdee279 3827* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3828
3829* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3830 numbers.
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cbdee279 3832* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3833
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3834* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3835 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3836
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3837* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3838 library.
3839
e61abf83 3840* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3841 functions from ISO C 9X.
3842
3843* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3844 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3845
a5a0310d 3846* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3848* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3849
3850* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3851
440d13e2 3852* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3853
3854* Optimized string functions have been added.
3855
3856* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3857
3858* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3860* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3861 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3862
3863 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3864 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3865
0dee6738 3866 user system wall
48244d09 3867
0dee6738 3868 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3869
0dee6738 3870 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3871
0dee6738 3872 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3874 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3875
3876 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3877
3878 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3880 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3881 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3882 horribly slow.
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3884 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3885 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3887* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3888
3889* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3890
3891* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3892 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3893
3894* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3896* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3897 Bambrough.
3898
3899* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3900 latest draft standards.
3901
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3903
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3905~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3906addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3907alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3908argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3909argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3910argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3911argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3912argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3913argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3914argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3915argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3916argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3917argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3918authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3919authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3920authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3921backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3922backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3923backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3924cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3925cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3926cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3927cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3928cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3929cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3930capget NEW: kernel
3931capset NEW: kernel
3932carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3933cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3934cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3935casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3936casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3937casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3938casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3939casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3940casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3941catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3942catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3943catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3944catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3945catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3946catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3948ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3949ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3950ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3951ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3952ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3953ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3954cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3955cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3956cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3957cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3958cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3959cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3960clearerr_locked REMOVED
3961clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3962clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3963clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3964clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3965clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3966clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3967clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3968conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3969conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3970conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3971cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3972cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3973cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3974cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3975cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3976cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3977creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3978crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3979creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3980creat64 NEW: LFS
3981csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3982csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3983csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3984csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3985csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3986csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3987csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3988csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3989csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3990ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3991ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3992ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3993ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3994ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3995ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3996des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3997ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3998endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3999exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4000exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4001exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4002exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4003exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4004exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4005fattach NEW: STREAMS
4006fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4007fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4008fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4009fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4010feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4011fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4012fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4013fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4014feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4015feof_locked REMOVED
4016feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4017ferror_locked REMOVED
4018fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4019fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4020fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4021fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4022feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4023fflush_locked REMOVED
4024ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4025ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4026fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4027fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4028fileno_locked REMOVED
4029fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4030fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4031fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4032fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4033fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4034fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4035fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4036fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4037fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4038fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4039fopen64 NEW: LFS
4040fputc_locked REMOVED
4041fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4042fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4043freopen64 NEW: LFS
4044fseeko NEW: Unix98
4045fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4046fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4047fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4048fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4049ftello NEW: Unix98
4050ftello64 NEW: LFS
4051ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4052ftw64 NEW: LFS
4053fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4054gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4055gamma_r REMOVED
4056gammaf_r REMOVED
4057gammal_r REMOVED
4058getchar_locked REMOVED
4059getdate NEW: Unix98
4060getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4061getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4062getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4063getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4064getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4065getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4066getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4067getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4068getutxent NEW: Unix98
4069getutxid NEW: Unix98
4070getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4071glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4072globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4073gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4074gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4075grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4076host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4077iconv NEW: iconv
4078iconv_close NEW: iconv
4079iconv_open NEW: iconv
4080if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4081if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4082if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4083if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4084in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4085in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4086inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4087isastream NEW: STREAMS
4088iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4089key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4090key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4091key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4092key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4093key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4094key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4095key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4096key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4097key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4098llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4099llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4100llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4101llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4102llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4103llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4104log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4105log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4106log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4107lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4108lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4109lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4110lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4111lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4112lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4113lseek64 NEW: LFS
4114makecontext NEW: Unix98
4115mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4116mmap64 NEW: LFS
4117moncontrol REMOVED
4118modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4119nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4120nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4121nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4122nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4123nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4124nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4125netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4126netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4127nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4128nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4129nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4130nftw NEW: Unix98
4131nftw64 NEW: LFS
4132open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4133passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4134pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4135pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4136pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4137pread NEW: Unix98
4138pread64 NEW: LFS
4139printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4140printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4141profil_counter REMOVED
4142pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4143pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4144ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4145ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4146putc_locked REMOVED
4147putchar_locked REMOVED
4148putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4149putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4150putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4151pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4152pwrite NEW: Unix98
4153pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4154readdir64 NEW: LFS
4155readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4156remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4157remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4158remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4159round NEW: ISO C 9x
4160roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4161roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4162rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4163scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4164scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4165scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4166scandir64 NEW: LFS
4167sendfile NEW: kernel
4168setcontext NEW: Unix98
4169setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4170setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4171sighold NEW: Unix98
4172sigignore NEW: Unix98
4173sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4174sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4175sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4176sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4177sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4178sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4179sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4180sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4181statfs64 NEW: LFS
4182statvfs NEW: Unix98
4183statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4184strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4185strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4186strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4187strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4188svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4189svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4190svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4191swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4192tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4193tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4194tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4195tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4196tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4197tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4198trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4199truncate64 NEW: LFS
4200truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4201truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4202umount2 NEW: kernel
4203unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4204updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4205user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4206utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4207versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4208versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4209waitid NEW: Unix98
4210wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4211wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4212wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4213wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4214wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4215wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4216wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4217wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4218wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4219wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4220write_profiling REMOVED
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4221xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4222xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4223xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4224xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4225xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4226xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4227xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4228xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4229xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4230xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4231xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4232xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4233xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4234xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4235xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4236~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4237\f
4238Version 2.0.6
4239
4240* more bug fixes
4241
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4242\f
4243Version 2.0.5
4244
4245* more bug fixes
4246
4247* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4248
4249* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4250
4251* rewrite of cbrt function
4252
4253* update of timezone data
4254\f
4255Version 2.0.4
4256
4257* more bug fixes
4258\f
4259Version 2.0.3
4260
4261* more bug fixes
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4263Version 2.0.2
4264
4265* more bug fixes
4266
4267* add atoll function
4268
4269* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4270
4271* fix math functions
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4272\f
4273Version 2.0.1
4274
4275* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4276
4277* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4278
4279* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4280 the ELF dynamic loader.
4281
4282* support for parallel builds is improved
4283\f
40a4b79f 4284Version 2.0
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4286* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4287 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4288 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4289
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4290* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4291 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4292 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4293 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4294 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4295 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4296 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4297 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4298 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4299 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4300 files in the ELF format.
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4301
4302* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4303 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4304
4305* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4306 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4307 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4308 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4309 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4310 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4311 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4312 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4313 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4314 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4315 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4317* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4318 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4319 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4320 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4321 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4322
f7eac6eb 4323* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4324 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4325 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4326 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4327 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4328
4329* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4331* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4332 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4333 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4334 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4335 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4336 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4337 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4338 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4339 NSS services available.
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4341* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4342 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4343 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4344
4345* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4346 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4347 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4348
4349* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4350 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4351 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4352 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4353
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4354* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4355 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4356 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4357
4358* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4359 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4360 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4361
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4362* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4363 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4364
f7eac6eb 4365* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4366 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4367 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4368 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4369
4370* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4371 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4372 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4373
71733723 4374* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4375 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4376 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4377 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4378 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4379 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4380 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4381 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4382
4383* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4384 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4385 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4386 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4387 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4388 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4389 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4390
4391* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4392 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4393 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4394 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4395 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4396 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4397
4398* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4399 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4400
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4401* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4402 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4403 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4405* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4406
4407* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4408 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4409 their use is discouraged.
4410
4411* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4412 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4414* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4415 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4416
4417* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4418 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4419
4420* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4421 see <dirent.h>.
4422
4423* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4424 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4425 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4426 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4427 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4428
4429* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4430 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4431 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4432 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4433
4434* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4435 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4436
4437* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4438 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4439 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4440 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4441 number generator.
4442
4443* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4444 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4445
4446* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4447 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4448
71733723 4449* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4450 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4451 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4452 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4454* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4455
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4456* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4457 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4458 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4459
4460* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4461 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4463* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4464 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4465 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4466 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4467
4468* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4469 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4470 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4471 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4472 programs already written to use it.)
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4473
4474* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4475 constants.
4476
4477* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4478 with 4.4 BSD.
4479
4480* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4481 a given effective group ID.
4482
4483* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4484 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4485 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4486 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4487
4488* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4489 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4490 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4491 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4492 doing the same thing.
4493
4494* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4495 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4496
4497* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4498 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4499
4500* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4501
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4502* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4503 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4504 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4505 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4506 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4507
4508* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4509 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4510
4511* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4512 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4513 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4514 function.
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4515
4516* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4517
4518* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4519 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4520 strings.
4521
4522* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4523 and writing the utmp file.
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4524
4525* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4526 Thorsten Kukuk.
4527
4528* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4529 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4530 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4531
4532* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4533 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4534
4535* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4536 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4537 specification.
4538
4539* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4540 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4541 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4542 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4543
4544* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4545 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4546 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4547
4548* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4549 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4550 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4551 expression matcher.
4552
4553* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4554 functionality.
4555
4556* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4557 by Ulrich Drepper.
4558
4559* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4560
4561* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4562 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4563 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4564\f
4565Version 1.09
4566
4567* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4568
4569* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4570 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4571
4572* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4573 want to put themselves in the background.
4574
4575* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4576 run without an operating system.
4577
4578* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4579 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4580
4581* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4582 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4583
4584* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4585
4586* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4587 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4588 have YP (aka NIS).
4589
4590* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4591 conventions.
4592
4593* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4594 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4595\f
4596Version 1.08
4597
4598* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4599 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4600 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4601
4602* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4603 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4604
4605* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4606 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4607
4608* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4609
4610* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4611
4612* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4613 compatibility.
4614
4615* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4616 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4617 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4618
4619* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4620
4621* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4622 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4623 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4624
4625* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4626 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4627 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4628 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4629 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4630 on a block).
4631
4632* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4633 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4634 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4635 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4636 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4637 cross-compiler.
4638
4639* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4640 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4641\f
4642Version 1.07
4643
4644* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4645 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4646
4647* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4648 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4649 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4650
4651* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4652 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4653 address of the last character written.
4654
4655* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4656 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4657
4658* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4659 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4660
4661* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4662 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4663 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4664 you dereference this pointer.
4665
4666* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4667 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4668
4669* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4670 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4671 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4672 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4673
4674* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4675 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4676 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4677 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4678\f
4679Version 1.06
4680
4681* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4682 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4683 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4684 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4685 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4686
4687* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4688
4689* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4690
4691* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4692 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4693
4694* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4695 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4696
4697* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4698 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4699
4700* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4701 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4702 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4703 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4704 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4705
4706* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4707 to the error code in `errno'.
4708
4709* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4710 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4711 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4712 malloc'd string.
4713
4714* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4715 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4716 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4717
4718* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4719 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4721Version 1.05
4722
4723* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4724 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4725 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4726
4727* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4728 characters.
4729
4730* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4731 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4732
4733* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4734\f
4735Version 1.04
4736
4737* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4738 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4739 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4740 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4741
4742* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4743 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4744 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4745
4746* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4747 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4748
4749* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4750 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4751 made itself into a shared library.
4752
4753* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4754 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4755
4756* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4757 with limited length.
4758
4759* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4760
4761* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4762
4763* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4764
4765* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4766 function for traversing a directory tree.
4767
4768* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4769 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4770 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4771 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4772
4773* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4774 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4775
4776* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4777
4778* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4779 things to your strings.
4780
4781* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4782
4783* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4784 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4785 supporting those systems.
4786
4787* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4788 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4789 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4790 configuration files.
4791
4792* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4793 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4794
4795* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4797 in <strings.h>.)
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4798
4799* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4800 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4801 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4802 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4803 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4804 required storage is not available.
4805
4806* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4807 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4808
4809* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4810 latest files released from Berkeley.
4811\f
4812----------------------------------------------------------------------
4813Copyright information:
4814
09533208 4815Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4816
4817 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4818 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4819 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4820 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4821
4822 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4823 of this document, or of portions of it,
4824 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4825 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4826\f
4827Local variables:
4828version-control: never
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