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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.27
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10Major new features:
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12* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin and tan
13 with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu from Intel.
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15* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
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4ea49f4c 17* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f and powf.
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19* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
20 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
21 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
22 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
23 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
24 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
25 from a security and performance perspective.
26
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27Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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29* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
30 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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32* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
33 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
34 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
35 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
36 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
37 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
38 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
39
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40* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
41 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
42 exp10l for these functions instead.
43
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44* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
45 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
46 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
47
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48Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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50 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
51
52Security related changes:
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54 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
55 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
56 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
57 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
58 script.)
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60The following bugs are resolved with this release:
61
62 [The release manager will add the list generated by
63 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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66Version 2.26
67
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68Major new features:
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70* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
71 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
72 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
73 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
74 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
75 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
76 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
77
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78* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
79 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 80 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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81 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
82 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
83 are rendered with pango, see for example:
84 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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86* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
87 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
88 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 89
2b2ccd0c 90* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 91
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92 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
93 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
94 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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96 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
97 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
98 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
99 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
100 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 101
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102 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
103 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
104 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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106* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
107 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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109* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
110 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
111 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
112 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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114* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
115 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
116 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
117 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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119* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
120 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
121 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
122 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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124* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
125 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
126 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 127
2b2ccd0c 128* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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129 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
130 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
131 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 133 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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134 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
135 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
136 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
137 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
138
139 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
140 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
141 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
142 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
143 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
144 interfaces should be used instead.
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146Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
147
148* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
149 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
150 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
151 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
152 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
153 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
154 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
155 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
156
157* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
158 removed.
159
160* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 161 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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162 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
163 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
164
165* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
166 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
167 default.
168
169 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
170 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
171 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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172 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
173 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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175 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
176 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
177 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
178 name service modules, to be built and installed.
179
180* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
181 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
182 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
183 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
184
185* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
186 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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188* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
189 exported by accident.
190
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191* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
192 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
193 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
194
195* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
196 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
197 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
198 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
199
200* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
201
202* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
203
204* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
205 free instead.
206
207* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
208 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
209
210* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
211 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
212
213* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
214 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
215 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
216 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
217 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
218 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
219 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
220 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
221
222* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
223 synced with the kernel:
224
225 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
226 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
227
228 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
229 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
230 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
231
232 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
233 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
234
235Changes to build and runtime requirements:
236
237* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
238 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
239 x86-32 and x86-64.)
240
7e368000 241* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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243* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
244 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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246 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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247 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
248 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
249 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 250 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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252Security related changes:
253
e14a2772 254* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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255 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
256
257* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
258 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
259
260* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
261 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
262 (CVE-2010-3192).
263
264* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
265 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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267The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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269 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
270 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
271 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
272 fields
273 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
274 (CVE-2010-3192)
275 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
276 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
277 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
278 ld.bfd is available
279 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
280 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
281 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
282 x86 and other generic code
283 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
284 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
285 incorrect
286 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
287 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
288 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
289 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
290 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
291 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
292 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
293 resolver
294 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
295 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
296 order of 0D36 and 0D37
297 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
298 chillu characters
299 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
300 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
301 receiving data
302 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
303 whitespace
304 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
305 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
306 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
307 for Peru
308 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
309 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
310 failures consistently
311 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
312 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
313 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
314 frame-pointer on i386
315 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
316 register
317 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
318 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
319 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
320 generic c code is used
321 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
322 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
323 around 4000
324 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
325 (CVE-2017-12133)
326 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
327 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
328 with -lieee
329 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
330 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
331 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
332 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
333 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
334 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
335 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
336 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
337 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
338 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
339 remove()
340 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
341 checked for errors.
342 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
343 new posix_spawn implementation
344 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
345 leads to lower CPU frequency
346 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
347 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
348 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
349 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
350 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
351 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
352 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
353 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
354 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
355 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
356 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
357 not support gethostbyname4_r
358 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
359 switching
360 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
361 arenas
362 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
363 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
364 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
365 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
366 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
367 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
368 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
369 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
370 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
371 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
372 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
373 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
374 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
375 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
376 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
377 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
378 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
379 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
380 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
381 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
382 retry value
383 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
384 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
385 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
386 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
387 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
388 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
389 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
390 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
391 [21537] libc:
392 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
393 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
394 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
395 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
396 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
397 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
398 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
399 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
400 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
401 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
402 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
403 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
404 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
405 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
406 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
407 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
408 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
409 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
410 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
411 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
412 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
413 issue on x86-64
414 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
415 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
416 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
417 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
418 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
419 construction
420 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
421 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
422 between_2_3
423 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
424 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
425 conditions
426 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
427 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
428 Hindi Locale
429 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
430 posix/sched_cpucount.c
431 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
432 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
433 locale
434 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
435 leading to relocation crash
436 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
437 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
438 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
439 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
440 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
441 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
442 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
443 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
444 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
445 locale
446 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
447 locale
448 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
449 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
450 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
451 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
452 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
453 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
454 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
455 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
456 strings
457 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
458 protector=all
459 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
460 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
461 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
462 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
463 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
464 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
465 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
466 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
467 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
468 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
469 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
470 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
471 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
472 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
473 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
474 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
475 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
476 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
477 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
478 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
479 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
480 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
481 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
482 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
483 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
484 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
485 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
486 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
487 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
488 with unicode 9.0
489 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
490 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
491 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
492 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
493 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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497
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498* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
499 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
500 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
501 Library.
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503* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
504 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 505 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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507
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508* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
509 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
510 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
511 the GNU C Library.
512
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513* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
514 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
515 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
516 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
517 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
518 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
519 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
520 will not.
521
522 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
523 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
524 many years.
525
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527 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
528 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
529
530 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
531 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
532 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
533 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
534 problem.
535
ec94343f 536* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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538 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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541 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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542 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
543 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
544 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
545 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
546 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
547 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
548 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
549 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
550 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
551 WINT_WIDTH.
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553* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
554
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555 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
556
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557 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
558 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
559 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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561 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
562 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
563
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564 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
565 fminmagf, fminmagl.
566
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567 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
568
29cb9293 569 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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571 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
572 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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575
eb3c12c7 576 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 577 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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580 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
581
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583 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
584 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
585
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586* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
587 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
588 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
589 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
590 effects of the memory clear).
591
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592* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
593 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
594 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
595 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
596
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598 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
599 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
600 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
601 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
602 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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605 have been added.
606
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607* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
608 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
609 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
610 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
611 as large as several megabytes.
612
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614 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
615 been removed.
616
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617* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
618 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
619 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
620 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
621 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
622 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
623 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
624
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625* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
626 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
627 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
628 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
629
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631 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
632 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
633 Internet.
634
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635* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
636 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
637 They were already unimplemented.
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639* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
640 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
641 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
642 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
643
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644* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
645 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
646 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
647 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
648 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
649
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650* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
651 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
652 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
653 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
654 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
655
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657 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
658 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
659 did not reflect that.
660
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662 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
663 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
664 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
665 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
666 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
667 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
668 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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671 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
672 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
673 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
674
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676 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
677 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
678 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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681 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
682 guarantees.
683
684* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
685 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
686 make state changes.
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689
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691 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
692 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
693 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
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697 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
698 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
699 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
700 (CVE-2015-5180)
701
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704 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
705 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
706 protector-all
707 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
708 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
709 before it started waiting
710 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
711 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
712 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
713 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
714 wrong type
715 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
716 library linked with pthread
717 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
718 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
719 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
720 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
721 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
722 after being __libc_memalign()'d
723 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
724 when it shouldnt
725 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
726 not
727 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
728 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
729 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
730 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
731 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
732 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
733 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
734 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
735 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
736 termination
737 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
738 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
739 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
740 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
741 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
742 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
743 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
744 causes a segmentation fault
745 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
746 linking
747 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
748 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
749 uninitialized GOT
750 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
751 versions
752 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
753 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
754 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
755 is always true.
756 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
757 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
758 modes
759 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
760 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
761 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
762 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
763 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
764 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
765 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
766 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
767 libpthread.a
768 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
769 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
770 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
771 _res_hconf
772 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
773 information.
774 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
775 penalty
776 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
777 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
778 cause transition penalty
779 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
780 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
781 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
782 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
783 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
784 mcount.oS)
785 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
786 Checking
787 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
788 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
789 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
790 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
791 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
792 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
793 multi-arch
794 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
795 (RES_USEBSTRING)
796 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
797 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
798 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
799 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
800 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
801 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
802 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
803 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
804 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
805 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
806 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
807 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
808 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
809 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
810 glibc
811 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
812 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
813 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
814 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
815 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
816 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
817 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
818 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
819 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
820 U+20AC), not same as GBK
821 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
822 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
823 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
824 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
825 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
826 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
827 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
828 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
829 RES_USE_INET6
830 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
831 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
832 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
833 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
834 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
835 wrong condition
836 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
837 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
838 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
839 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
840 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
841 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
842 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
843 clang
844 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
845 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
846 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
847 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
848 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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853 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
854 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
855 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
856 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
857 architectures.
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860 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
861 been included in previous releases.
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864 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
865
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866* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
867 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
868 instead of “union wait”.
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870* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
871 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
872 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
873 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
874 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
875 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
876 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
877
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879 API.
880
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882 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
883 drop it.
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885* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
886 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
887 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
888 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
889 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
890 extensions.
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894* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
895 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
896 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
897
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898* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
899 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
900 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
901 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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903* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
904 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
905 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
906
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907* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
908 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
909 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
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911* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
912 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
913 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
914 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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918 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
919 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
920 of MS-DOS.
921 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
922 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
923 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
924 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
925 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
926 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
927 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
928 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
929 CLDR data
930 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
931 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
932 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
933 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
934 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
935 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
936 romanisation
937 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
938 and +/-
939 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
940 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
941 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
942 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
943 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
944 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
945 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
946 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
947 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
948 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
949 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
950 all locales
951 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
952 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
953 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
954 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
955 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
956 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
957 execute
958 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
959 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
960 -Wsystem-headers
961 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
962 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
963 Romanian locale data
964 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
965 symbol
966 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
967 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
968 language
969 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
970 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
971 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
972 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
973 machine
974 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
975 description
976 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
977 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
978 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
979 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
980 when using RTLD_NEXT
981 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
982 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
983 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
984 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
985 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
986 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
987 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
988 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
989 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
990 Excavator core
991 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
992 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
993 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
994 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
995 double range
996 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
997 part zero incorrect
998 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
999 equality tests
1000 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1001 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1002 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1003 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1004 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1005 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1006 glibc-2.22
1007 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1008 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1009 'tst-numeric.c'
1010 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1011 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1012 low part
1013 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1014 result
1015 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1016 unaligned stack
1017 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1018 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1019 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1020 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1021 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1022 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1023 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1024 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1025 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1026 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1027 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1028 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1029 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1030 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1031 modes
1032 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1033 server addresses
1034 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1035 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1036 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1037 response to getaddrinfo
1038 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1039 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1040 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1041 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1042 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1043 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1044 sometimes incorrect
1045 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1046 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1047 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1048 record types
1049 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1050 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1051 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1052 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1053 (CVE-2016-3075)
1054 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1055 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1056 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1057 resolving symbols
1058 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1059 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1060 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1061 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1062 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1063 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1064 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1065 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1066 gethosts
1067 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1068 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1069 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1070 (CVE-2016-3706)
1071 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1072 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1073 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1074 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1075 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1076 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1077 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1078 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1079 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1080 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1081 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1082 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1083 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1084 executable
1085 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1086 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1087 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1088 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1089 XPG3
1090 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1091 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1092 (CVE-2016-4429)
1093 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1094 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1095 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1096 AS not supporting AVX512
1097 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1098 sNaN argument
1099 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1100 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1101 argument
1102 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1103 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1104 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1105 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1106 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1107 eax=0x80000001
1108 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1109 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1110 subnormals
1111 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1112 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1113 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1114 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1115 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1116 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1117 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1118 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1119 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1120 input
1121 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1122 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1123 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1124 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1125 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1126 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1127 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1128 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1129 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1130 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1131 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1132 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1133 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1134 double rounding
1135 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1136 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1137 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1138 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1139 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1140 (Only arm/linux)
1141 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1142 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1143 fallbacks
1144 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1145 "invalid" exceptions
1146 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1147 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1148 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1149 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1150 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1151 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1152 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1153 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1154 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1156Version 2.23
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1158* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1159 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1160 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1161 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1162 89, 16061, and 18568.
1163
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1164* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1165 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1166 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1167 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1168 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1169 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1170 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1171
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1172* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1173 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1174 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1175
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1176* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1177 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1178 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1179 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1180 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1181 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1182 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1183
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1184* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1185 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1186 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1187 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1188 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1189 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1190 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1191 Ericsson.)
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1193* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1194 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1195 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1196 independent of the GNU C Library.
1197
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1198* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1199 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1201* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1202 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1203 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1204 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1205 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1206 Linux kernel.
1207
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1208* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1209 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1211* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1212 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1213 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1214 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1215 defining their own copy.
1216
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1217* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1218 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1219 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1221Security related changes:
1222
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1223* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1224 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1225
1226* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1227 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1228 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1229 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1230 (CVE-2015-8777)
1231
1232* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1233 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1234
1235* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1236 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1237
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1238* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1239 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1240 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1242* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1243 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1244 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1245 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1246 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1247 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1248 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1249 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1250 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1251 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1252 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1253 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1254 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1255
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1258 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1259 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1260 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1261 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1262 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1263 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1264 use `mkstemp'
1265 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1266 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1267 overflow/underflow errors
1268 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1269 overflow/underflow
1270 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1271 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1272 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1273 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1274 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1275 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1276 are not contiguous
1277 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1278 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1279 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1280 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1281 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1282 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1283 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1284 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1285 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1286 all exceptions
1287 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1288 arguments
1289 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1290 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1291 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1292 should include
1293 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1294 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1295 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1296 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1297 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1298 GNU/Linux
1299 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1300 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1301 arguments
1302 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1303 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1304 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1305 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1306 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1307 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1308 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1309 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1310 rounding results
1311 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1312 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1313 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1314 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1315 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1316 fails
1317 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1318 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1319 block boundary
1320 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1321 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1322 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1323 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1324 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1325 4.7?
1326 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1327 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1328 (related to lock elision)
1329 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1330 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1331 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1332 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1333 (CVE-2015-8779)
1334 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1335 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1336 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1337 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1338 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1339 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1340 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1341 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1342 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1343 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1344 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1345 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1346 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1347 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1348 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1349 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1350 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1351 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1352 contains a vector instruction exception.
1353 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1354 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1355 locales
1356 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1357 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1358 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1359 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1360 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1361 missing break ?
1362 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1363 32bit processes
1364 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1365 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1366 infinity
1367 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1368 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1369 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1370 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1371 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1372 be forced unloaded
1373 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1374 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1375 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1376 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1377 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1378 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1379 statically too large
1380 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1381 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1382 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1383 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1384 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1385 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1386 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1387 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1388 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1389 FUTEX_SHARED
1390 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1391 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1392 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1393 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1394 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1395 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1396 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1397 opendir()
1398 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1399 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1400 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1401 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1402 signgam
1403 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1404 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1405 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1406 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1407 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1408 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1409 dependencies
1410 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1411 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1412 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1413 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1414 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1415 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1416 (CVE-2015-8776)
1417 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1418 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1419 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1420 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1421 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1422 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1423 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1424 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1425 contention
1426 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1427 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1428 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1429 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1430 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1431 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1432 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1433 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1434 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1435 rounding modes
1436 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1437 ILP32
1438 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1439 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1440 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1441 threshold
1442 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1443 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1444 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1445 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1446 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1447 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1448 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1449 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1450 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1451 pthread_setaffinity_np
1452 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1453 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1454 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1455 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1456 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1457 prelink
1458 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1459 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1460 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1461 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1462 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1463 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1464 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1465 bits/mathcalls.h
1466 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1467 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1468 for C99-based standards
1469 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1470 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1471 math-only
1472 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1473 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1474 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1475 disabled
1476 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1477 "inexact" exceptions
1478 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1479 arguments
1480 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1481 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1482 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1483 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1484 rules
1485 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1486 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1487 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1488 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1489 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1490 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1491 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1492 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1493 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1494 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1495 from 32bit
1496 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1497 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1498 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1499 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1500 subnormals
1501 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1502 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1503 error on 32-bit architectures
1504 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1505 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1506 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1507 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1508 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1509 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1510 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1511 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1512 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1513 -Os
1514 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1515 CPU's.
1516 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1517 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1518 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1519 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1520 architectures
1521 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1523Version 2.22
1524
1525* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1526
3df5cd98 1527 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1528 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1529 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1530 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1531 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1532 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1533 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1534 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1535 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1536 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1537 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1538 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1539 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1540 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1541 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1542 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1543 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1544 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1545 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1546 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 1547
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1548* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1549 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1550
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1551* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1552 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1553 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1554 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1555 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1556 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 1557
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1558* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1559 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1560 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1561 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1562 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1563
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1564* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1565 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1566 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1567
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1568* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1569 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1570 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1571 17998.
1572
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1573* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1574 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1575 condition in some applications.
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AS
1576
1577* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1578 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1579 pow, powf.
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1580 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1581 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1582 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1583 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1584 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1585
1586* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1587 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1588 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1589 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1590
1591* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1592 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1593 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1594
1595* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1596 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1597
1598* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1599 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1600 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1601
a03ba363 1602 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1603 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1604 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1606Version 2.21
1607
1608* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1609
042e1521 1610 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1611 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1612 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1613 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1614 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1615 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1616 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1617 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1618 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1619 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1620 17892.
1621
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1622* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1623 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1624 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1625 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1626 intended.
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1627
1628* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1629 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1630 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1631 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1632 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1633 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1635* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1636
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1637* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1638 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1639 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1641* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1642 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1643 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1644 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1645 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1646 effects being visible outside transactions.
1647
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1648* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1649 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 1650
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1651* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1652
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1653* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1654 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1655 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1656 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1657 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 1658
a5357b7c
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1659* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1660 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1661
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1662* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1663 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1664 format.
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1666* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1667 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1668 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1669
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1670* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1671 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1672
0d560bbf 1673* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1674
1675* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1676 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1677 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1678 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1679
1680* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1681 with newer versions of bison.
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1682
1683* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1684 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1685 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1686 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1687 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1688 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1689 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1690 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1691 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1692 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1693 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1694 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1695 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1696
1697 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1698 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1699 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1700 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1701 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1703Version 2.20
1704
1705* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1706
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1707 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1708 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1709 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1710 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1711 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1712 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1713 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1714 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1715 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1716 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1717 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1718 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1719 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1720 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1721 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1722
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1723* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1724 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1725 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1726 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1727 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1728 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1729 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1730 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1731 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1732 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1733
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1734* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1735 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1736 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1737 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1738 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1739
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1740* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1741
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1742* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1743 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1744
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1745* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1746 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1747 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1748 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1749 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1750 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1751
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1752* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1753 from ports.
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1754
1755* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1756 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1757 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1758 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1759 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1760 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1761 test macros defined.
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1762
1763* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1764
1765* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1766 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1767 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1768 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1769 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1770 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1771 is not built.
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1772
1773* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1774 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1775 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1776 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1777 invocation.
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1778
1779* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1780 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1781 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1783* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1784 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1785 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1786 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1787
1788* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1789 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1790 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1791 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1792 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1793 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1794 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1795 additional checks.
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1797* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1798 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1799 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1800 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1801 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1802 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1803 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1804 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1805 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1806
1807* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1808 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1809 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1810 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1811 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1812 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1813
1814* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1815 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1816 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1817 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1819Version 2.19
1820
1821* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1822
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1823 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1824 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1825 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1826 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1827 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1828 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1829 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1830 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1831 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1832 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1833 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1834 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1835 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1836 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1837 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1838 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1839 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1840 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1841
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1842* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1843 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1844
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1845* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1846 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1847 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1848 extension which uses __block.
1849
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1850* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1851 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1852 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1853 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1854 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1855
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1856* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1857 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1858 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1859 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1860 if malloc fails.
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1862* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1863 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1864 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1865 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1866 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1867
1868* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1869 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1870 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1871
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1872* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1873 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1874 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1875 #15856, #15857).
1876
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1877* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1878 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1879
82bab04b 1880* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1881 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1883* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1884
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1885* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1886 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1887
3e181dda 1888* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1889
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1890* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1891
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1892* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1893 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1894 for which the C library was built.
1895
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1896* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1897 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1898 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1899 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1900 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1901 in the following circumstances:
1902
1903 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1904
1905 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1906 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1907
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1908* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1909 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1910
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1911* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1912 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1913
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1914* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1915
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1916* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1917 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1918
8b7d57cd 1919* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1920
1921* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1922
fd712ef3 1923* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1924
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1925* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1926 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1927 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1928 disable some of those declarations.
1929
7011c262 1930* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1931 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1932 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1933
1934* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1935 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1936
1937* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1938 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1939 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1940 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1941 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1942 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1943 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1944 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1945 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1946 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1947 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1948 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1949 require recompilation.
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1951Version 2.18
1952
1953* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1954
17db6e8d 1955 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1956 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1957 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1958 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1959 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1960 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1961 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1962 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1963 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1964 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1965 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1966 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1967 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1968 15755, 15759.
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1970* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1971 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1972 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1973 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1974 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1975 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1976
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1977* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1978 #15078).
1979
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1980* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1981 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1982
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1983* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1984 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1985 destructor calls to glibc.
1986
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1987* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1988 output.
1989
1990* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1991 non-x86 architectures.
1992
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1993* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1994
1995* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1996
1997* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1998 Richard Henderson.
1999
2000* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2001
2002* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2003 Richard Henderson.
2004
2005* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2006 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2007
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2008* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2009
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TS
2010* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2011 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2012
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2013* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2014 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2015
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PE
2016* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2017 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2018 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2019
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2020* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2021 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2022 attributes of a process.
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2023
2024* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2025 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2026 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2027 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2028 mutexes.
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2029
2030* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2031 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2032
2033* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2035Version 2.17
2036
2037* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2038
80ceeaee 2039 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2040 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2041 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2042 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2043 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2044 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2045 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2046 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2047 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2048 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2049 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2050 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2051 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2052 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2053 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
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2055* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2056
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2057* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2058 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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2060* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2061 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2062
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2063* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2064
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2065* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2066 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2067 zEnterprise z196.
2068 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2069
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2070* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2071 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2072 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2073
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2074* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2075 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2076
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2077* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2078 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2079
7aab07e4 2080* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2081 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2082
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2083* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2084 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2085
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2086* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2087 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2088 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2089 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2090
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2091* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2092 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2093
85429b1a 2094* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2095 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2097
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2098* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2099 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2100 information in --help and --version output.
2101
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2102* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2103 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2104 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2105
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2106* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2107 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2108 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2109 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2110 when the mode is enabled.
2111
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2112* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2113 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2114 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2115 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2116 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2117 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2118 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2119
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2120* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2121 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2123Version 2.16
2124
2125* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2126
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2127 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2128 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2129 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2130 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2131 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2132 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2133 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2134 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2135 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2136 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2137 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2138 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2139 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2140 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2141 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2142 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2143 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2144 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2145 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2146 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2147 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2148 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2149 14277, 14278.
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2152 configuring glibc with:
2153 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2154 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2155 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2156
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2158
2159 + define static_assert
2160
2161 + do not declare gets
2162
2163 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2164
2165 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2166 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2167 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2168 implementation.
8d44e150 2169
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2172 + uchar.h support added
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2174 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2175
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2176 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2177
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2180* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2182* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2184
2185* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2187
2188* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2189 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2190 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2191 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2192 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2193
21708942 2194* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2196 before 2.6.
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2198* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2199 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2200 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2201
83678f76 2202* New locales: mag_IN
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2203
2204* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2205 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2206 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2207 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2208 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2209
2210* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2211
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2212* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2213 and Will Schmidt.
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2215* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2216
2217* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2218 without a previously built glibc.
2219
2220* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2221 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2222
2223* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2224 now supported for ARM processors.
2225
2226* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2227 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2228 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2229
2230* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2231
2232* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2233 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2234 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2235 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2237* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2238 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2239 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2240 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2242* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2243 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2244 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2245 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2246 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2247
2248* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2249 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2250 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2251 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 2253Version 2.15
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2256
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2257 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2258 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2259 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2260 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2261 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2262 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2263 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2265* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2266 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2268* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2269 and support for initgroups lookups.
2270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2272* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2273 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2275* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2276 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2279 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2280 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2281
d42964a0 2282* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2283 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2284
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2285* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2286 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2288
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2289* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2291
2292* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2293 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2294
2295* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2297
2298* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2300
2301* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2302 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2303
2304* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2307* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2309* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2312* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2313 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2314
6b64057b 2315* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2319* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2320
553149f6 2321 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2322 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2323 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2324 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2326 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2327 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2328 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2329 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2330 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2332* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2333 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2334 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2335 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2336
2337 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2338 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2339 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2341
c6489db3 2342* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2343 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2344
72d1dddb 2345* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2346 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2347
2348* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2349
2350* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2352
2353* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2354 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2355 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2356 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2358Version 2.13
2359
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2360* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2361
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2362 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2363 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2364 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2365 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2366 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2367
10b3bedc 2368* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2369
ac2b484c 2370* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2372* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2373 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2376Version 2.12
2377
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2378* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2379
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2380 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2381 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2382 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2383 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2384 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2385 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2386 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2387 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2388
2389* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2390
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2391* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2392
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2393* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2394
2395* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2396 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2398
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2399* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2400 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2401 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2402 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2403 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2404
d36b9613 2405* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2407Version 2.11
2408
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2409* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2410
2411 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2412 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2413 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2414 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2415 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2416 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2417
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2418* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2419 mkostemps64
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2420 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2421
24ab9c76 2422* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2423 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2424
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2425* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2426 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2427
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2428* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2429
0122f28e 2430* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2431 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2432 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2434
9d36a6c4 2435 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2437
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2438* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2439 strstr, strcasestr.
2440 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2441
2442* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2443 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2444
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2445* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2446 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2447
2448* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2449 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2450
2451* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2452 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2453 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2454 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2455 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2456 necessity is every process again.
2457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2458
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2459* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2460 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2461
2462* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2463 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2464
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2465* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2466 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2467 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2468
9dd5b8a1 2469* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2471Version 2.10
2472
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2473* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2474
2475 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2476 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2477 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2478 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2479 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2480
bb066545 2481* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2483
425ce2ed 2484* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2485 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2486
1fdd89a7 2487* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2488 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2490* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2491 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2492
1f04d005 2493* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 2495
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2496* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2498
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2499* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2500 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2501
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2502* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2503 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2504
2505* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2506 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2508
735be400 2509* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2510
84aa52d7 2511* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2513
2514* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2515 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2517
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2518* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2520
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2521* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2522 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2523 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2524 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2525 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2526 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2529
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2531
2532 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2533 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2534 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2535 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2536 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2537
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2539 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2540
2541* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2542 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2544* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2547* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2548 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2549 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2550
2551* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2552 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2556* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2557 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2560 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2561 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2562 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2563
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2564* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2565 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2567* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2568 Sinhala)
48b22986 2569 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2571* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2574
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2576
2577 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2578 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2579 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2580 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2581 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2582 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2583 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2584
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77751669 2587* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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2589* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2590 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2591
2592* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2593
2594* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2596
2597* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2598 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2599
2600* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2601 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2602 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2603
2604* Faster memset for x86-64.
2605 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2606
2607* Faster memcpy on x86.
2608 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2609
2610* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2611 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2613* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
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2617
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2618* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2619
2620 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2621 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2622 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2623 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2624 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2625
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2626* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2627 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2628
2629* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2630
2631* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2632 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2633 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2634
2635* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2636 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2637
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2640
2641* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2642
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2643* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2644 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2645
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2646* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2647 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2648
2649* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2650 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2651
2652* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2653
2654* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2657* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2658 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2659 yo_NG.
2660
2661+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2662 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2667
2668 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2669 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2670 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2671 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2672 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2673 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2674 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2675 4702, 4858
2676
bce20b9a 2677* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2680
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2684
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2685* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2686
2687 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2688 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2689 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2690 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2691 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2692 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2693 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2694 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2695 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2696
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2698 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2699 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2701* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2703
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2706* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2708* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2709 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2710 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2713
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2715 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2716 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2718
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2720 Ulrich Drepper.
2721
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2722* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2723
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2724* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2725 Ulrich Drepper.
2726
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2727* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2728
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2729* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2730 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2733
2734* More overflow detection functions.
2735
2736* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2737 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2739 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2740 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2741 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2742 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2743 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2744 by Masahide Washizawa.
2745
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2746* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2747 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2748
2749* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2750 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2751 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2752 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2754* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2755 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2756
2757* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2758
2759* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2760 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2761 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2762
2763* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2764 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2765
2766* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2767 for compatibility with some other systems.
2768
2769* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2771Version 2.3.6
2772
2773* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2774
2775 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2776 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2777 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2778 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2779 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2780 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2781
2782 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2783
2784* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2785
2786* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2788Version 2.3.5
2789
2790* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2791
2792 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2793 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2794 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2795 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2796
2797 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2799Version 2.3.4
2800
2801* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2804* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2805 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2806 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2807
2808* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2809 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2810
0325dd20 2811* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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2812 efficiently.
2813 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2814
2815* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2816 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2817 handling data.
2818
2819* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2820 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2821 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2822
2823* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2824 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2825
2826* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2827 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2828 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2829 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2830
2831* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2832 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2833 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2834 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2835
2836* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2837 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2838 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2839 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2840 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2842Version 2.3.3
2843
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2844* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2845 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2846
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2847* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2848 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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2851 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2852
2853* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2856* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2857 by Roland McGrath.
2858
c5af724c 2859* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2860 and Ulrich Drepper.
2861
2862* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2863 RFC 3484.
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2865Version 2.3.2
2866
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2867* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2868 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2869 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2870 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2871 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2872 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2873 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2874 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2875 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2876
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2877* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2878 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2879 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2880
2881* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2882
2883* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2884 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2886* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2887 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2888
52a16e58 2889* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2891* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2892 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2894* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2895 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2896 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2897 of weak definition in ld.so.
2898
2899* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2900 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2901
2902* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2903 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2907* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2908 charsets.
2909
2910* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2911 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2913* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2914 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2916* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2917 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2918
bb0ec5bd 2919* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2920 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2921 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2923* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2924 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2925
bb0ec5bd 2926* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2927 implementation of regex.
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2929* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2930 Unicode 3.2.
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2932* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2933 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2935* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2936 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2937 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2939* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2941
2942* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2943 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2944 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2946* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2947 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2949* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2950 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2951 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2953* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2955Version 2.2.6
2956
2957* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2958 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2959
2960* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2961 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2964
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2965* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2966 128-bit long double format.
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2968* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2969 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2970
ad2e4f18 2971* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2974
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2976 as well.
2977
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2978* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2979 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2981* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2984
2995f70e 2985* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2986 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2988* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2989 support Unicode 3.1.
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2991* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2992 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2993
69d5f925 2994* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2995
69d5f925 2996* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2998 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2999
3000* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3001 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3002
3003* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3004 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3006* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3009
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3011 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3012 in float, double, and long double format.
3013
f128331c 3014* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3015 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3016 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 3017
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3018* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3019 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3020 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3021 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3022
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3023* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3024 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3025 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3026
3027* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3028 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3029
3030* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3031 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3032
3033* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3034 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3035 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3036
3037* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3038 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3040* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3041 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3043* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3045Version 2.2.2
3046
464d97ec 3047* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3048 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3049 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3050 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3051 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3052 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3053 other headers.
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3054
3055* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3056 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3057
3058* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3059 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3060 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3061 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3062
3063* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3064 locales. While
3065
3066 locale -a
3067
3068 only lists the names of the supported locales
3069
3070 locale -a --verbose
3071
3072 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3073 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3075Version 2.2.1
3076
3077* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3078 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3079 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3080 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3081 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3082
3083 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3084
3085 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3086
3087 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3088
3089* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3090 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3091 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3092
3093* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3094 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3095
3096* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3097 changed from the default "C" locale.
3098
3099* The usual bug fixes.
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3101Version 2.2
3102
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3103* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3104 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3105 is in progress.
3106
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3107* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3108
793bd4d9 3109* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3111 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3112 obviously requires a database library being available.
3113
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3114* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115
abbffdf9 3116* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3117
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3118* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3119 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3120
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3121* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3122
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3123* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3124 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3125 and Mark Kettenis.
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3126
3127 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3128 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3129 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3130
a00c3ca9 3131 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3132 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3133
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3134* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3135 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3136 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3137
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3138* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3139 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3140 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3142
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3143 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3144 structures for the wide character tables.
3145
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3146* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3147
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3148* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3149
3150* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3151
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3152* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3153 and Yutaka Niibe.
3154
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3155* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3156
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3157* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3158
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3159* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3160
3161* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3162
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3163* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3164
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3165* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3166 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3167 implemented for Linux.
3168
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3169* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3170 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3171 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3172 versions.
3173
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3174* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3175 Masahide Washizawa.
3176
8f3f1e09 3177* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3178\f
3179Version 2.1.3
3180
3181* bug fixes
3182
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3183\f
3184Version 2.1.2
3185
3186* bug fixes
3187
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3189Version 2.1.1
3190
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3191* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3192
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3193* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3194
407d26b7 3195* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3196
3197* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3198
407d26b7 3199* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3200
407d26b7 3201* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3202
3203* Update timezone data files.
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3205* lots of charmaps corrections
3206
3207* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3208
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3210Version 2.1
3211
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3212* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3213 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3214 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3215 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3216 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3217 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3218
c84142e8 3219* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3220 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3221
1fb05e3d 3222* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3223 symbol level.
3224
3225* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3226 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3227
cbdee279 3228* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3229
3230* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3231 numbers.
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cbdee279 3233* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3234
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3235* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3236 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3237
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3238* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3239 library.
3240
e61abf83 3241* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3242 functions from ISO C 9X.
3243
3244* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3245 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3246
a5a0310d 3247* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3248
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3249* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3250
3251* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3252
440d13e2 3253* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3254
3255* Optimized string functions have been added.
3256
3257* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3258
3259* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3261* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3262 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3263
3264 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3265 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3266
0dee6738 3267 user system wall
48244d09 3268
0dee6738 3269 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3270
0dee6738 3271 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3272
0dee6738 3273 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3275 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3276
3277 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3278
3279 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3281 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3282 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3283 horribly slow.
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3285 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3286 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3287
3288* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3289
3290* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3291
3292* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3293 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3294
3295* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3297* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3298 Bambrough.
3299
3300* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3301 latest draft standards.
3302
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3303* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3304
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3305* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3306~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3307addseverity NEW: Unix98
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3309argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3310argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3311argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3312argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3313argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3314argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3315argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3316argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3317argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3318argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3319authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3320authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3321authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3322backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3323backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3324backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3325cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3326cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3327cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3328cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3329cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3330cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3331capget NEW: kernel
3332capset NEW: kernel
3333carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3334cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3335cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3336casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3337casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3338casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3339casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3340casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3341casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3342catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3343catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3344catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3345catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3346catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3347catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3349ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3350ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3351ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3352ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3353ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3354ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3355cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3356cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3357cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3358cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3359cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3360cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3361clearerr_locked REMOVED
3362clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3363clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3364clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3365clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3366clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3367clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3368clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3369conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3370conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3371conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3372cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3373cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3374cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3375cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3376cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3377cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3378creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3379crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3380creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3381creat64 NEW: LFS
3382csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3383csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3384csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3385csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3387csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3388csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3389csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3390csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3391ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3392ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3393ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3394ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3395ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3396ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3397des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3398ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3399endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3400exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3401exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3402exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3403exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3404exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3405exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3406fattach NEW: STREAMS
3407fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3408fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3409fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3410fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3411feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3412fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3413fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3414fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3415feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3416feof_locked REMOVED
3417feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3418ferror_locked REMOVED
3419fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3420fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3421fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3422fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3423feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3424fflush_locked REMOVED
3425ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3426ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3427fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3428fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3429fileno_locked REMOVED
3430fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3431fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3432fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3433fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3434fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3435fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3436fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3437fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3438fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3439fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3440fopen64 NEW: LFS
3441fputc_locked REMOVED
3442fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3443fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3444freopen64 NEW: LFS
3445fseeko NEW: Unix98
3446fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3447fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3448fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3449fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3450ftello NEW: Unix98
3451ftello64 NEW: LFS
3452ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3453ftw64 NEW: LFS
3454fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3455gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3456gamma_r REMOVED
3457gammaf_r REMOVED
3458gammal_r REMOVED
3459getchar_locked REMOVED
3460getdate NEW: Unix98
3461getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3462getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3463getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3464getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3467getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3468getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3469getutxent NEW: Unix98
3470getutxid NEW: Unix98
3471getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3472glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3473globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3474gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3475gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3476grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3477host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3478iconv NEW: iconv
3479iconv_close NEW: iconv
3480iconv_open NEW: iconv
3481if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3482if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3483if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3484if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3485in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3486in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3487inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3488isastream NEW: STREAMS
3489iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3490key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3491key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3492key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3493key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3494key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3495key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3496key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3497key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3498key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3499llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3500llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3501llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3502llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3503llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3504llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3505log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3506log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3507log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3508lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3509lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3510lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3511lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3512lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3513lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3514lseek64 NEW: LFS
3515makecontext NEW: Unix98
3516mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3517mmap64 NEW: LFS
3518moncontrol REMOVED
3519modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3520nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3521nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3522nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3523nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3524nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3525nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3526netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3527netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3528nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3529nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3530nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3531nftw NEW: Unix98
3532nftw64 NEW: LFS
3533open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3534passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3535pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3536pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3537pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3538pread NEW: Unix98
3539pread64 NEW: LFS
3540printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3541printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3542profil_counter REMOVED
3543pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3544pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3545ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3546ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3547putc_locked REMOVED
3548putchar_locked REMOVED
3549putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3550putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3551putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3552pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3553pwrite NEW: Unix98
3554pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3555readdir64 NEW: LFS
3556readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3557remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3558remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3559remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3560round NEW: ISO C 9x
3561roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3562roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3563rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3564scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3565scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3566scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3567scandir64 NEW: LFS
3568sendfile NEW: kernel
3569setcontext NEW: Unix98
3570setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3571setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3573sigignore NEW: Unix98
3574sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3575sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3576sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3577sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3578sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3579sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3580sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3581sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3582statfs64 NEW: LFS
3583statvfs NEW: Unix98
3584statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3585strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3586strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3587strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3588strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3589svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3590svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3591svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3592swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3593tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3594tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3595tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3596tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3597tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3598tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3599trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3600truncate64 NEW: LFS
3601truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3602truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3603umount2 NEW: kernel
3604unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3605updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3606user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3607utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3608versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3609versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3610waitid NEW: Unix98
3611wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3612wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3613wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3614wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3615wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3616wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3617wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3618wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3619wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3620wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3621write_profiling REMOVED
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3622xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3623xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3624xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3625xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3626xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3627xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3628xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3629xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3630xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3631xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3632xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3633xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3634xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3635xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3636xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3637~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3639Version 2.0.6
3640
3641* more bug fixes
3642
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3644Version 2.0.5
3645
3646* more bug fixes
3647
3648* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3649
3650* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3651
3652* rewrite of cbrt function
3653
3654* update of timezone data
3655\f
3656Version 2.0.4
3657
3658* more bug fixes
3659\f
3660Version 2.0.3
3661
3662* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3663\f
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3664Version 2.0.2
3665
3666* more bug fixes
3667
3668* add atoll function
3669
3670* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3671
3672* fix math functions
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3674Version 2.0.1
3675
3676* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3677
3678* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3679
3680* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3681 the ELF dynamic loader.
3682
3683* support for parallel builds is improved
3684\f
40a4b79f 3685Version 2.0
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3687* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3688 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3689 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3690
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3691* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3692 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3693 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3694 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3695 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3696 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3697 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3698 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3699 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3700 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3701 files in the ELF format.
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3702
3703* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3704 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3705
3706* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3707 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3708 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3709 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3710 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3711 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3712 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3713 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3714 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3715 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3716 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3718* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3719 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3720 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3721 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3722 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3723
f7eac6eb 3724* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3725 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3726 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3727 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3728 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3729
3730* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3732* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3733 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3734 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3735 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3736 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3737 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3738 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3739 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3740 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3741
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3742* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3743 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3744 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3745
3746* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3747 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3748 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3749
3750* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3751 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3752 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3753 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3754
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3755* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3756 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3757 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3758
3759* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3760 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3761 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3762
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3763* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3764 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3765
f7eac6eb 3766* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3767 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3768 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3769 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3770
3771* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3772 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3773 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3774
71733723 3775* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3776 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3777 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3778 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3779 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3780 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3781 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3782 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3783
3784* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3785 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3786 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3787 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3788 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3789 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3790 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3791
3792* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3793 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3794 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3795 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3796 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3797 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3798
3799* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3800 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3801
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3802* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3803 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3804 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3806* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3807
3808* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3809 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3810 their use is discouraged.
3811
3812* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3813 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3815* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3816 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3817
3818* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3819 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3820
3821* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3822 see <dirent.h>.
3823
3824* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3825 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3826 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3827 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3828 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3829
3830* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3831 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3832 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3833 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3834
3835* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3836 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3837
3838* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3839 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3840 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3841 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3842 number generator.
3843
3844* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3845 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3846
3847* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3848 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3849
71733723 3850* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3851 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3852 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3853 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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3855* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3856
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3857* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3858 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3859 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3860
3861* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3862 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 3863
c709e372 3864* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3865 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3866 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3867 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3868
3869* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3870 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3871 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3872 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3873 programs already written to use it.)
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3874
3875* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3876 constants.
3877
3878* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3879 with 4.4 BSD.
3880
3881* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3882 a given effective group ID.
3883
3884* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3885 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3886 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3887 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3888
3889* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3890 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3891 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3892 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3893 doing the same thing.
3894
3895* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3896 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3897
3898* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3899 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3900
3901* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3902
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3903* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3904 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3905 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3906 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3907 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3908
3909* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3910 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3911
3912* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3913 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3914 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3915 function.
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3916
3917* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3918
3919* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3920 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3921 strings.
3922
3923* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3924 and writing the utmp file.
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3925
3926* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3927 Thorsten Kukuk.
3928
3929* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3930 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3931 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3932
3933* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3934 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3935
3936* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3937 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3938 specification.
3939
3940* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3941 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3942 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3943 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3944
3945* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3946 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3947 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3948
3949* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3950 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3951 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3952 expression matcher.
3953
3954* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3955 functionality.
3956
3957* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3958 by Ulrich Drepper.
3959
3960* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3961
3962* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3963 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3964 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3966Version 1.09
3967
3968* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3969
3970* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3971 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3972
3973* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3974 want to put themselves in the background.
3975
3976* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3977 run without an operating system.
3978
3979* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3980 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3981
3982* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3983 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3984
3985* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3986
3987* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3988 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3989 have YP (aka NIS).
3990
3991* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3992 conventions.
3993
3994* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3995 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3996\f
3997Version 1.08
3998
3999* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4000 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4001 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4002
4003* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4004 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4005
4006* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4007 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4008
4009* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4010
4011* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4012
4013* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4014 compatibility.
4015
4016* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4017 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4018 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4019
4020* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4021
4022* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4023 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4024 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4025
4026* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4027 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4028 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4029 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4030 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4031 on a block).
4032
4033* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4034 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4035 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4036 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4037 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4038 cross-compiler.
4039
4040* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4041 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4042\f
4043Version 1.07
4044
4045* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4046 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4047
4048* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4049 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4050 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4051
4052* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4053 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4054 address of the last character written.
4055
4056* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4057 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4058
4059* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4060 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4061
4062* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4063 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4064 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4065 you dereference this pointer.
4066
4067* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4068 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4069
4070* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4071 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4072 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4073 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4074
4075* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4076 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4077 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4078 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4079\f
4080Version 1.06
4081
4082* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4083 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4084 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4085 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4086 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4087
4088* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4089
4090* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4091
4092* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4093 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4094
4095* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4096 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4097
4098* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4099 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4100
4101* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4102 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4103 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4104 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4105 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4106
4107* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4108 to the error code in `errno'.
4109
4110* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4111 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4112 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4113 malloc'd string.
4114
4115* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4116 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4117 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4118
4119* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4120 uniquely-named temporary file.
4121\f
4122Version 1.05
4123
4124* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4125 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4126 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4127
4128* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4129 characters.
4130
4131* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4132 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4133
4134* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4135\f
4136Version 1.04
4137
4138* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4139 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4140 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4141 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4142
4143* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4144 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4145 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4146
4147* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4148 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4149
4150* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4151 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4152 made itself into a shared library.
4153
4154* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4155 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4156
4157* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4158 with limited length.
4159
4160* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4161
4162* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4163
4164* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4165
4166* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4167 function for traversing a directory tree.
4168
4169* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4170 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4171 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4172 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4173
4174* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4175 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4176
4177* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4178
4179* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4180 things to your strings.
4181
4182* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4183
4184* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4185 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4186 supporting those systems.
4187
4188* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4189 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4190 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4191 configuration files.
4192
4193* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4194 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4195
4196* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4197 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4198 in <strings.h>.)
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4199
4200* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4201 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4202 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4203 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4204 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4205 required storage is not available.
4206
4207* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4208 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4209
4210* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4211 latest files released from Berkeley.
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4214Copyright information:
4215
58b587c1 4216Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4217
4218 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4219 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4220 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4221 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4222
4223 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4224 of this document, or of portions of it,
4225 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4226 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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4229version-control: never
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