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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 2.26.1
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10Security related changes:
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12 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
13 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
14 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
15 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
16 script.)
17
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18The following bugs are resolved with this release:
19
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2aa1a7a8 21 [21242] assert: Suppress pedantic warning caused by statement expression
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22 [21780] posix: Set p{read,write}v2 to return ENOTSUP
23 [21871] x86-64: Use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F
dc258ce6 24 [21885] getaddrinfo: Release resolver context on error in gethosts
a71a3374 25 [21915] getaddrinfo: incorrect result handling for NSS service modules
79663315 26 [21922] getaddrinfo with AF_INET(6) returns EAI_NONAME, not EAI_NODATA
c2921b17 27 [21930] Do not use __builtin_types_compatible_p in C++ mode
30243468 28 [21932] Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r implementation
3aeab55e 29 [21941] powerpc: Restrict xssqrtqp operands to Vector Registers
fb9a781e 30 [21972] assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
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31 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
32 occur with -O3
33 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
05155f07 34 [22078] nss_files performance issue in hosts multi mode
905a6129 35 [22095] resolv: Fix memory leak with OOM during resolv.conf parsing
27233446 36 [22096] resolv: __resolv_conf_attach must not free passed conf object
d5c6dea2 37 [22111] malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
d37c951f 38 [22146] Let fpclassify use the builtin when optimizing for size in C++ mode
fdf58ebc 39 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3b10c5d2 40 [22235] Add C++ versions of iscanonical for ldbl-96 and ldbl-128ibm
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42Version 2.26
43
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44Major new features:
45
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46* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
47 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
48 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
49 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
50 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
51 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
52 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
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54* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
55 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 56 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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57 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
58 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
59 are rendered with pango, see for example:
60 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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62* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
63 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
64 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 65
2b2ccd0c 66* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 67
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68 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
69 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
70 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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72 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
73 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
74 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
75 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
76 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 77
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78 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
79 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
80 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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82* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
83 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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85* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
86 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
87 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
88 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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90* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
91 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
92 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
93 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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95* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
96 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
97 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
98 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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100* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
101 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
102 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 103
2b2ccd0c 104* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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105 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
106 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
107 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 109 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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110 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
111 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
112 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
113 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
114
115 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
116 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
117 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
118 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
119 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
120 interfaces should be used instead.
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122Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
123
124* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
125 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
126 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
127 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
128 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
129 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
130 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
131 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
132
133* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
134 removed.
135
136* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 137 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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138 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
139 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
140
141* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
142 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
143 default.
144
145 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
146 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
147 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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148 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
149 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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150
151 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
152 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
153 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
154 name service modules, to be built and installed.
155
156* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
157 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
158 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
159 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
160
161* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
162 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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164* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
165 exported by accident.
166
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167* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
168 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
169 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
170
171* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
172 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
173 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
174 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
175
176* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
177
178* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
179
180* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
181 free instead.
182
183* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
184 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
185
186* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
187 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
188
189* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
190 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
191 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
192 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
193 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
194 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
195 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
196 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
197
198* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
199 synced with the kernel:
200
201 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
202 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
203
204 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
205 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
206 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
207
208 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
209 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
210
211Changes to build and runtime requirements:
212
213* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
214 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
215 x86-32 and x86-64.)
216
7e368000 217* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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219* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
220 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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222 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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223 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
224 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
225 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 226 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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228Security related changes:
229
e14a2772 230* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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231 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
232
233* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
234 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
235
236* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
237 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
238 (CVE-2010-3192).
239
240* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
241 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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243The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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245 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
246 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
247 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
248 fields
249 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
250 (CVE-2010-3192)
251 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
252 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
253 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
254 ld.bfd is available
255 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
256 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
257 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
258 x86 and other generic code
259 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
260 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
261 incorrect
262 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
263 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
264 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
265 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
266 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
267 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
268 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
269 resolver
270 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
271 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
272 order of 0D36 and 0D37
273 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
274 chillu characters
275 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
276 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
277 receiving data
278 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
279 whitespace
280 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
281 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
282 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
283 for Peru
284 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
285 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
286 failures consistently
287 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
288 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
289 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
290 frame-pointer on i386
291 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
292 register
293 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
294 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
295 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
296 generic c code is used
297 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
298 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
299 around 4000
300 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
301 (CVE-2017-12133)
302 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
303 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
304 with -lieee
305 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
306 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
307 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
308 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
309 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
310 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
311 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
312 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
313 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
314 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
315 remove()
316 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
317 checked for errors.
318 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
319 new posix_spawn implementation
320 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
321 leads to lower CPU frequency
322 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
323 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
324 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
325 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
326 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
327 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
328 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
329 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
330 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
331 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
332 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
333 not support gethostbyname4_r
334 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
335 switching
336 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
337 arenas
338 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
339 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
340 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
341 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
342 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
343 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
344 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
345 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
346 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
347 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
348 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
349 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
350 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
351 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
352 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
353 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
354 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
355 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
356 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
357 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
358 retry value
359 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
360 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
361 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
362 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
363 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
364 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
365 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
366 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
367 [21537] libc:
368 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
369 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
370 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
371 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
372 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
373 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
374 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
375 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
376 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
377 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
378 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
379 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
380 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
381 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
382 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
383 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
384 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
385 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
386 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
387 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
388 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
389 issue on x86-64
390 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
391 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
392 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
393 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
394 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
395 construction
396 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
397 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
398 between_2_3
399 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
400 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
401 conditions
402 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
403 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
404 Hindi Locale
405 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
406 posix/sched_cpucount.c
407 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
408 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
409 locale
410 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
411 leading to relocation crash
412 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
413 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
414 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
415 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
416 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
417 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
418 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
419 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
420 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
421 locale
422 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
423 locale
424 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
425 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
426 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
427 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
428 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
429 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
430 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
431 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
432 strings
433 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
434 protector=all
435 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
436 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
437 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
438 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
439 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
440 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
441 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
442 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
443 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
444 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
445 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
446 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
447 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
448 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
449 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
450 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
451 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
452 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
453 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
454 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
455 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
456 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
457 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
458 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
459 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
460 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
461 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
462 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
463 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
464 with unicode 9.0
465 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
466 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
467 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
468 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
469 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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473
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474* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
475 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
476 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
477 Library.
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479* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
480 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 481 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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482 the GNU C Library.
483
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484* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
485 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
486 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
487 the GNU C Library.
488
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489* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
490 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
491 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
492 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
493 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
494 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
495 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
496 will not.
497
498 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
499 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
500 many years.
501
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502* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
503 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
504 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
505
506 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
507 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
508 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
509 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
510 problem.
511
ec94343f 512* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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514 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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517 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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519 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
520 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
521 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
522 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
523 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
524 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
525 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
526 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
527 WINT_WIDTH.
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529* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
530
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532
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533 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
534 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
535 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 536
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537 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
538 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
539
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540 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
541 fminmagf, fminmagl.
542
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543 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
544
29cb9293 545 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 546
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547 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
548 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 549
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551
eb3c12c7 552 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 553 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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556 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
557
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559 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
560 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
561
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562* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
563 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
564 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
565 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
566 effects of the memory clear).
567
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568* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
569 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
570 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
571 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
572
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573* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
574 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
575 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
576 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
577 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
578 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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580* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
581 have been added.
582
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583* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
584 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
585 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
586 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
587 as large as several megabytes.
588
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589* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
590 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
591 been removed.
592
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593* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
594 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
595 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
596 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
597 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
598 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
599 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
600
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601* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
602 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
603 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
604 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
605
099191b1 606* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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607 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
608 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
609 Internet.
610
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611* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
612 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
613 They were already unimplemented.
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615* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
616 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
617 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
618 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
619
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620* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
621 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
622 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
623 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
624 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
625
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626* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
627 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
628 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
629 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
630 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
631
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632* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
633 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
634 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
635 did not reflect that.
636
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638 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
639 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
640 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
641 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
642 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
643 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
644 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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647 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
648 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
649 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
650
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652 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
653 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
654 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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657 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
658 guarantees.
659
660* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
661 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
662 make state changes.
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665
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668 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
669 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 670 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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673 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
674 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
675 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
676 (CVE-2015-5180)
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679
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680 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
681 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
682 protector-all
683 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
684 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
685 before it started waiting
686 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
687 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
688 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
689 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
690 wrong type
691 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
692 library linked with pthread
693 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
694 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
695 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
696 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
697 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
698 after being __libc_memalign()'d
699 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
700 when it shouldnt
701 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
702 not
703 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
704 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
705 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
706 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
707 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
708 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
709 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
710 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
711 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
712 termination
713 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
714 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
715 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
716 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
717 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
718 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
719 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
720 causes a segmentation fault
721 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
722 linking
723 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
724 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
725 uninitialized GOT
726 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
727 versions
728 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
729 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
730 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
731 is always true.
732 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
733 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
734 modes
735 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
736 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
737 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
738 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
739 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
740 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
741 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
742 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
743 libpthread.a
744 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
745 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
746 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
747 _res_hconf
748 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
749 information.
750 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
751 penalty
752 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
753 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
754 cause transition penalty
755 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
756 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
757 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
758 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
759 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
760 mcount.oS)
761 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
762 Checking
763 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
764 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
765 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
766 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
767 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
768 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
769 multi-arch
770 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
771 (RES_USEBSTRING)
772 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
773 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
774 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
775 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
776 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
777 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
778 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
779 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
780 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
781 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
782 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
783 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
784 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
785 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
786 glibc
787 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
788 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
789 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
790 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
791 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
792 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
793 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
794 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
795 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
796 U+20AC), not same as GBK
797 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
798 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
799 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
800 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
801 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
802 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
803 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
804 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
805 RES_USE_INET6
806 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
807 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
808 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
809 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
810 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
811 wrong condition
812 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
813 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
814 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
815 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
816 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
817 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
818 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
819 clang
820 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
821 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
822 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
823 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
824 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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829 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
830 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
831 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
832 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
833 architectures.
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836 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
837 been included in previous releases.
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840 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
841
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842* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
843 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
844 instead of “union wait”.
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846* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
847 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
848 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
849 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
850 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
851 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
852 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
853
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855 API.
856
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857* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
858 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
859 drop it.
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861* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
862 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
863 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
864 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
865 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
866 extensions.
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870* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
871 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
872 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
873
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874* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
875 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
876 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
877 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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879* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
880 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
881 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
882
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883* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
884 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
885 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
886
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887* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
888 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
889 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
890 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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894 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
895 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
896 of MS-DOS.
897 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
898 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
899 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
900 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
901 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
902 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
903 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
904 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
905 CLDR data
906 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
907 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
908 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
909 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
910 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
911 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
912 romanisation
913 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
914 and +/-
915 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
916 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
917 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
918 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
919 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
920 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
921 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
922 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
923 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
924 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
925 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
926 all locales
927 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
928 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
929 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
930 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
931 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
932 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
933 execute
934 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
935 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
936 -Wsystem-headers
937 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
938 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
939 Romanian locale data
940 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
941 symbol
942 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
943 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
944 language
945 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
946 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
947 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
948 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
949 machine
950 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
951 description
952 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
953 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
954 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
955 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
956 when using RTLD_NEXT
957 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
958 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
959 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
960 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
961 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
962 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
963 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
964 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
965 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
966 Excavator core
967 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
968 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
969 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
970 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
971 double range
972 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
973 part zero incorrect
974 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
975 equality tests
976 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
977 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
978 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
979 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
980 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
981 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
982 glibc-2.22
983 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
984 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
985 'tst-numeric.c'
986 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
987 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
988 low part
989 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
990 result
991 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
992 unaligned stack
993 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
994 pointers and lengths in error-case.
995 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
996 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
997 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
998 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
999 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1000 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1001 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1002 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1003 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1004 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1005 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1006 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1007 modes
1008 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1009 server addresses
1010 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1011 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1012 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1013 response to getaddrinfo
1014 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1015 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1016 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1017 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1018 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1019 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1020 sometimes incorrect
1021 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1022 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1023 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1024 record types
1025 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1026 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1027 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1028 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1029 (CVE-2016-3075)
1030 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1031 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1032 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1033 resolving symbols
1034 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1035 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1036 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1037 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1038 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1039 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1040 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1041 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1042 gethosts
1043 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1044 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1045 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1046 (CVE-2016-3706)
1047 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1048 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1049 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1050 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1051 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1052 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1053 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1054 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1055 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1056 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1057 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1058 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1059 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1060 executable
1061 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1062 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1063 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1064 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1065 XPG3
1066 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1067 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1068 (CVE-2016-4429)
1069 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1070 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1071 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1072 AS not supporting AVX512
1073 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1074 sNaN argument
1075 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1076 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1077 argument
1078 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1079 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1080 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1081 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1082 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1083 eax=0x80000001
1084 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1085 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1086 subnormals
1087 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1088 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1089 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1090 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1091 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1092 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1093 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1094 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1095 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1096 input
1097 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1098 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1099 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1100 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1101 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1102 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1103 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1104 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1105 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1106 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1107 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1108 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1109 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1110 double rounding
1111 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1112 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1113 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1114 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1115 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1116 (Only arm/linux)
1117 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1118 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1119 fallbacks
1120 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1121 "invalid" exceptions
1122 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1123 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1124 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1125 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1126 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1127 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1128 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1129 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1130 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 1131\f
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1132Version 2.23
1133
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1134* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1135 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1136 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1137 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1138 89, 16061, and 18568.
1139
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1140* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1141 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1142 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1143 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1144 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1145 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1146 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1147
8b7b7f75
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1148* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1149 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1150 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1151
2eecc8af
FW
1152* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1153 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1154 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1155 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1156 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1157 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1158 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1159
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1160* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1161 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1162 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1163 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1164 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1165 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
1166 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1167 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 1168
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1169* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1170 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1171 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1172 independent of the GNU C Library.
1173
1c70b6f1
ZW
1174* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1175 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 1176
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1177* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1178 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1179 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1180 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1181 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1182 Linux kernel.
1183
1efad39b
SL
1184* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1185 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 1186
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1187* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1188 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1189 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1190 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1191 defining their own copy.
1192
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1193* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1194 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1195 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 1196
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1197Security related changes:
1198
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1199* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1200 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1201
1202* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1203 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1204 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1205 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1206 (CVE-2015-8777)
1207
1208* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1209 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1210
1211* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1212 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1213
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1214* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1215 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1216 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 1217
e9db92d3
CD
1218* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1219 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1220 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1221 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1222 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1223 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1224 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1225 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1226 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1227 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1228 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1229 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1230 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1231
ad372e29 1232The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1234 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1235 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1236 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1237 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1238 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1239 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1240 use `mkstemp'
1241 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1242 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1243 overflow/underflow errors
1244 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1245 overflow/underflow
1246 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1247 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1248 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1249 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1250 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1251 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1252 are not contiguous
1253 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1254 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1255 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1256 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1257 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1258 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1259 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1260 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1261 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1262 all exceptions
1263 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1264 arguments
1265 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1266 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1267 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1268 should include
1269 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1270 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1271 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1272 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1273 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1274 GNU/Linux
1275 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1276 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1277 arguments
1278 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1279 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1280 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1281 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1282 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1283 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1284 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1285 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1286 rounding results
1287 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1288 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1289 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1290 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1291 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1292 fails
1293 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1294 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1295 block boundary
1296 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1297 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1298 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1299 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1300 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1301 4.7?
1302 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1303 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1304 (related to lock elision)
1305 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1306 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1307 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1308 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1309 (CVE-2015-8779)
1310 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1311 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1312 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1313 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1314 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1315 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1316 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1317 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1318 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1319 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1320 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1321 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1322 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1323 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1324 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1325 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1326 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1327 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1328 contains a vector instruction exception.
1329 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1330 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1331 locales
1332 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1333 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1334 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1335 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1336 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1337 missing break ?
1338 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1339 32bit processes
1340 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1341 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1342 infinity
1343 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1344 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1345 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1346 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1347 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1348 be forced unloaded
1349 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1350 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1351 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1352 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1353 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1354 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1355 statically too large
1356 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1357 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1358 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1359 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1360 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1361 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1362 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1363 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1364 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1365 FUTEX_SHARED
1366 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1367 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1368 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1369 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1370 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1371 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1372 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1373 opendir()
1374 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1375 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1376 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1377 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1378 signgam
1379 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1380 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1381 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1382 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1383 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1384 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1385 dependencies
1386 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1387 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1388 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1389 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1390 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1391 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1392 (CVE-2015-8776)
1393 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1394 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1395 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1396 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1397 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1398 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1399 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1400 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1401 contention
1402 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1403 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1404 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1405 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1406 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1407 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1408 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1409 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1410 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1411 rounding modes
1412 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1413 ILP32
1414 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1415 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1416 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1417 threshold
1418 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1419 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1420 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1421 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1422 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1423 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1424 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1425 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1426 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1427 pthread_setaffinity_np
1428 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1429 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1430 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1431 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1432 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1433 prelink
1434 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1435 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1436 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1437 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1438 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1439 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1440 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1441 bits/mathcalls.h
1442 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1443 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1444 for C99-based standards
1445 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1446 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1447 math-only
1448 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1449 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1450 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1451 disabled
1452 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1453 "inexact" exceptions
1454 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1455 arguments
1456 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1457 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1458 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1459 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1460 rules
1461 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1462 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1463 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1464 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1465 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1466 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1467 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1468 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1469 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1470 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1471 from 32bit
1472 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1473 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1474 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1475 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1476 subnormals
1477 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1478 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1479 error on 32-bit architectures
1480 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1481 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1482 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1483 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1484 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1485 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1486 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1487 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1488 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1489 -Os
1490 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1491 CPU's.
1492 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1493 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1494 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1495 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1496 architectures
1497 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1499Version 2.22
1500
1501* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1502
3df5cd98 1503 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1504 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1505 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1506 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1507 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1508 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1509 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1510 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1511 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1512 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1513 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1514 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1515 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1516 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1517 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1518 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1519 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1520 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1521 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1522 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1524* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1525 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1526
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1527* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1528 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1529 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1530 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1531 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1532 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1534* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1535 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1536 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1537 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1538 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1539
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1540* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1541 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1542 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1543
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1544* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1545 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1546 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1547 17998.
1548
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1549* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1550 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1551 condition in some applications.
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1552
1553* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1554 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1555 pow, powf.
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1556 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1557 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1558 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1559 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1560 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1561
1562* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1563 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1564 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1565 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1566
1567* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1568 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1569 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1570
1571* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1572 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1573
1574* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1575 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1576 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1577
a03ba363 1578 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1579 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1580 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1582Version 2.21
1583
1584* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1585
042e1521 1586 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1587 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1588 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1589 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1590 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1591 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1592 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1593 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1594 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1595 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1596 17892.
1597
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1598* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1599 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1600 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1601 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1602 intended.
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1604* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1605 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1606 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1607 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1608 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1609 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1611* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1612
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1613* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1614 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1615 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1617* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1618 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1619 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1620 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1621 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1622 effects being visible outside transactions.
1623
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1624* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1625 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1627* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1628
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1629* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1630 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1631 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1632 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1633 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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1635* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1636 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1637
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1638* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1639 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1640 format.
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1642* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1643 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1644 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1645
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1646* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1647 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1648
0d560bbf 1649* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1650
1651* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1652 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1653 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1654 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1655
1656* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1657 with newer versions of bison.
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1658
1659* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1660 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1661 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1662 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1663 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1664 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1665 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1666 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1667 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1668 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1669 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1670 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1671 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1672
1673 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1674 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1675 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1676 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1677 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1679Version 2.20
1680
1681* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1682
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1683 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1684 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1685 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1686 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1687 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1688 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1689 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1690 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1691 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1692 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1693 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1694 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1695 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1696 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1697 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1698
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1699* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1700 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1701 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1702 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1703 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1704 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1705 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1706 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1707 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1708 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1709
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1710* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1711 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1712 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1713 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1714 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1715
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1716* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1717
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1718* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1719 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1720
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1721* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1722 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1723 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1724 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1725 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1726 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1727
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1728* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1729 from ports.
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1730
1731* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1732 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1733 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1734 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1735 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1736 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1737 test macros defined.
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1738
1739* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1740
1741* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1742 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1743 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1744 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1745 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1746 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1747 is not built.
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1749* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1750 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1751 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1752 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1753 invocation.
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1754
1755* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1756 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1757 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1759* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1760 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1761 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1762 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1763
1764* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1765 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1766 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1767 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1768 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1769 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1770 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1771 additional checks.
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1772
1773* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1774 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1775 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1776 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1777 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1778 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1779 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1780 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1781 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1782
1783* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1784 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1785 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1786 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1787 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1788 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1789
1790* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1791 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1792 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1793 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1795Version 2.19
1796
1797* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1798
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1799 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1800 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1801 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1802 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1803 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1804 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1805 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1806 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1807 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1808 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1809 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1810 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1811 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1812 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1813 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1814 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1815 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1816 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1817
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1818* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1819 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1820
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1821* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1822 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1823 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1824 extension which uses __block.
1825
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1826* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1827 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1828 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1829 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1830 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1831
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1832* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1833 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1834 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1835 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1836 if malloc fails.
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1837
1838* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1839 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1840 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1841 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1842 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1843
1844* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1845 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1846 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1847
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1848* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1849 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1850 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1851 #15856, #15857).
1852
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1853* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1854 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1855
82bab04b 1856* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1857 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1859* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1860
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1861* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1862 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1863
3e181dda 1864* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
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1866* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1867
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1868* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1869 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1870 for which the C library was built.
1871
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1872* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1873 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1874 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1875 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1876 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1877 in the following circumstances:
1878
1879 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1880
1881 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1882 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1883
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1884* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1885 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1886
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1887* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1888 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1889
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1890* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1891
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1892* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1893 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1894
8b7d57cd 1895* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1896
1897* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1898
fd712ef3 1899* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1900
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1901* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1902 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1903 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1904 disable some of those declarations.
1905
7011c262 1906* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1907 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1908 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1909
1910* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1911 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1912
1913* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1914 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1915 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1916 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1917 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1918 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1919 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1920 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1921 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1922 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1923 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1924 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1925 require recompilation.
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1927Version 2.18
1928
1929* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1930
17db6e8d 1931 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1932 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1933 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1934 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1935 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1936 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1937 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1938 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1939 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1940 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1941 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1942 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1943 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1944 15755, 15759.
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1945
1946* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1947 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1948 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1949 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1950 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1951 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1952
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1953* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1954 #15078).
1955
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1956* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1957 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1958
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1959* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1960 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1961 destructor calls to glibc.
1962
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1963* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1964 output.
1965
1966* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1967 non-x86 architectures.
1968
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1969* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1970
1971* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1972
1973* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1974 Richard Henderson.
1975
1976* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1977
1978* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1979 Richard Henderson.
1980
1981* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1982 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1983
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1984* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1985
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1986* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1987 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 1988
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1989* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1990 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 1991
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1992* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1993 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1994 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1995
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1996* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1997 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1998 attributes of a process.
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1999
2000* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2001 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2002 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2003 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2004 mutexes.
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2005
2006* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2007 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2008
2009* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2010\f
2011Version 2.17
2012
2013* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2014
80ceeaee 2015 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2016 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2017 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2018 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2019 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2020 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2021 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2022 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2023 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2024 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2025 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2026 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2027 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2028 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2029 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2030
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2031* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2032
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2033* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2034 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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2036* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2037 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2038
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2039* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2040
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2041* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2042 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2043 zEnterprise z196.
2044 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2045
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2046* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2047 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2048 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2049
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2050* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2051 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2052
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2053* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2054 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2055
7aab07e4 2056* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2057 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2058
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2059* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2060 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2061
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2062* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2063 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2064 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2065 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
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2067* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2068 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2069
85429b1a 2070* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2071 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2073
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2074* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2075 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2076 information in --help and --version output.
2077
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2078* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2079 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2080 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2081
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2082* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2083 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2084 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2085 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2086 when the mode is enabled.
2087
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2088* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2089 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2090 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2091 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2092 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2093 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2094 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2095
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2096* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2097 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2099Version 2.16
2100
2101* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2102
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2103 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2104 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2105 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2106 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2107 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2108 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2109 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2110 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2111 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2112 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2113 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2114 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2115 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2116 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2117 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2118 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2119 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2120 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2121 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2122 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2123 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2124 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2125 14277, 14278.
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2128 configuring glibc with:
2129 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2130 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2131 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2132
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2134
2135 + define static_assert
2136
2137 + do not declare gets
2138
2139 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2140
2141 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2142 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2143 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2144 implementation.
8d44e150 2145
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2148 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2149
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2150 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2151
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2152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2153
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2156* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2158* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2161* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2164* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2165 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2166 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2167 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2168 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2169
21708942 2170* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2171 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2172 before 2.6.
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2174* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2175 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2176 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2177
83678f76 2178* New locales: mag_IN
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2179
2180* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2181 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2182 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2183 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2184 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2185
2186* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2187
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2188* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2189 and Will Schmidt.
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2190
2191* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2192
2193* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2194 without a previously built glibc.
2195
2196* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2197 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2198
2199* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2200 now supported for ARM processors.
2201
2202* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2203 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2204 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2205
2206* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2208* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2209 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2210 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2211 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2213* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2214 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2215 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2216 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2218* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2219 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2220 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2221 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2222 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2223
2224* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2225 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2226 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2227 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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2232
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2233 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2234 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2235 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2236 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2237 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2238 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2239 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2241* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2242 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2244* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2245 and support for initgroups lookups.
2246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2248* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2249 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2251* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2252 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2254* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2255 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2256 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2257
d42964a0 2258* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2259 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2260
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2261* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2262 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2263 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2264
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2265* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2266 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2267
2268* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2270
2271* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2273
2274* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2275 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2276
2277* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2278 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2279
2280* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2283* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2284
2285* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2286 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2288* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2289 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2290
6b64057b 2291* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2295* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2296
553149f6 2297 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2298 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2299 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2300 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2302 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2303 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2304 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2305 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2306 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2309 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2310 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2311 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2312
2313 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2314 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2315 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2317
c6489db3 2318* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2319 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2320
72d1dddb 2321* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2322 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2324* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2325
2326* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2327 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2328
2329* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2330 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2331 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2332 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2335
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2336* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2337
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2338 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2339 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2340 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2341 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2342 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2343
10b3bedc 2344* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2345
ac2b484c 2346* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 2347
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2348* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2349 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2352Version 2.12
2353
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2354* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2355
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2356 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2357 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2358 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2359 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2360 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2361 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2362 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2363 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2364
2365* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2366
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2367* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2368
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2369* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2370
2371* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2372 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2374
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2375* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2376 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2377 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2378 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2379 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2380
d36b9613 2381* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2383Version 2.11
2384
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2385* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2386
2387 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2388 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2389 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2390 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2391 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2392 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2393
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2394* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2395 mkostemps64
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2396 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2397
24ab9c76 2398* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2399 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2400
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2401* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2402 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2403
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2404* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2405
0122f28e 2406* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2407 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2408 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2409 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2410
9d36a6c4 2411 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2413
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2414* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2415 strstr, strcasestr.
2416 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2417
2418* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2419 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2420
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2421* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2422 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2423
2424* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2425 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2426
2427* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2428 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2429 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2430 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2431 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2432 necessity is every process again.
2433 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2434
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2435* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2436 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2437
2438* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2439 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2440
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2441* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2442 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2443 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2444
9dd5b8a1 2445* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2447Version 2.10
2448
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2449* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2450
2451 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2452 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2453 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2454 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2455 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2456
bb066545 2457* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2459
425ce2ed 2460* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2461 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2462
1fdd89a7 2463* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2464 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2466* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2467 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2468
1f04d005 2469* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2472* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2474
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2475* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2476 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2477
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2478* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2479 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2480
2481* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2482 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2484
735be400 2485* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2486
84aa52d7 2487* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2489
2490* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2491 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2493
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2494* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2496
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2497* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2498 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2499 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2500 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2501 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2505
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2506* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2507
2508 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2509 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2510 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2511 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2512 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2513
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2515 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2516
2517* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2518 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2520* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2521 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2523* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2524 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2526
2527* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2528 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2532* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2533 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2535* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2536 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2537 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2538 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2539
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2540* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2541 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2543* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2544 Sinhala)
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2547* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2550
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2552
2553 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2554 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2555 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2556 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2557 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2558 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2559 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2560
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77751669 2563* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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2565* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2566 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2567
2568* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2569
2570* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2572
2573* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2574 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2575
2576* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2577 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2578 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2579
2580* Faster memset for x86-64.
2581 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2582
2583* Faster memcpy on x86.
2584 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2585
2586* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2589* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2590 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2593
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2595
2596 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2597 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2598 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2599 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2600 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2601
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2603 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2604
2605* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2606
2607* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2608 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2609 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2610
2611* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2612 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2613
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2615 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2616
2617* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2618
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2620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2621
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2622* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2623 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2624
2625* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2626 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2627
2628* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2629
2630* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2633* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2634 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2635 yo_NG.
2636
2637+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2638 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2643
2644 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2645 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2646 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2647 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2648 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2649 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2650 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2651 4702, 4858
2652
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2656
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2660
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2662
2663 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2664 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2665 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2666 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2667 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2668 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2669 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2670 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2671 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2672
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2675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2677* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2678 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2679
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2682* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2684* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2685 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2686 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 2687 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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2689
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2691 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2692 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2694
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2696 Ulrich Drepper.
2697
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2698* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2699
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2700* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2701 Ulrich Drepper.
2702
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2703* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2704
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2705* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2706 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2709
2710* More overflow detection functions.
2711
2712* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2713 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2715 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2716 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2717 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2718 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2719 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2720 by Masahide Washizawa.
2721
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2722* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2723 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2725* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2726 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2727 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2728 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2730* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2731 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2732
2733* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2734
2735* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2736 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2737 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2738
2739* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2740 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2741
2742* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2743 for compatibility with some other systems.
2744
2745* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2747Version 2.3.6
2748
2749* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2750
2751 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2752 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2753 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2754 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2755 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2756 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2757
2758 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2759
2760* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2761
2762* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2764Version 2.3.5
2765
2766* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2767
2768 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2769 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2770 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2771 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2772
2773 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2775Version 2.3.4
2776
2777* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2779
2780* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2781 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2783
2784* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2785 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2786
0325dd20 2787* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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2788 efficiently.
2789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2790
2791* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2792 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2793 handling data.
2794
2795* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2796 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2797 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2798
2799* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2801
2802* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2803 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2804 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2805 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2806
2807* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2808 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2809 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2810 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2811
2812* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2813 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2814 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2815 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2816 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2818Version 2.3.3
2819
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2820* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2821 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2822
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2823* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2824 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 2826* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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2828
2829* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2832* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2833 by Roland McGrath.
2834
c5af724c 2835* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2837
2838* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2839 RFC 3484.
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2841Version 2.3.2
2842
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2843* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2844 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2845 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2846 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2847 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2848 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2849 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2850 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2851 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2852
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2853* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2854 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2855 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2856
2857* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2859* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2860 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2862* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2863 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2864
52a16e58 2865* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2867* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2868 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2870* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2871 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2872 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2873 of weak definition in ld.so.
2874
2875* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2876 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2877
2878* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2879 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2883* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2884 charsets.
2885
2886* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2887 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2889* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2890 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2892* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2893 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2894
bb0ec5bd 2895* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2896 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2897 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2899* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2900 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2901
bb0ec5bd 2902* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2903 implementation of regex.
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2905* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2906 Unicode 3.2.
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2908* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2909 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2911* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2912 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2913 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2915* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2917
2918* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2919 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2920 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2922* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2923 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2925* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2926 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2927 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2929* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2932
2933* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2934 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2935
2936* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2937 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2940
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2941* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2942 128-bit long double format.
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2944* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2945 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2946
ad2e4f18 2947* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2950
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2951* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2952 as well.
2953
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2954* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2955 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2957* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2959Version 2.2.4
2960
2995f70e 2961* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2962 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2964* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2965 support Unicode 3.1.
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2967* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2968 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2969
69d5f925 2970* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2971
69d5f925 2972* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2974 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2975
2976* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2977 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2978
2979* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2980 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2982* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2985
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2987 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2988 in float, double, and long double format.
2989
f128331c 2990* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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2992 128-bit long double format.
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2994* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2995 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2996 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2997 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2998
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2999* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3000 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3001 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3002
3003* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3004 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3005
3006* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3007 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3008
3009* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3010 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3011 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3013* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3014 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3016* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3017 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3019* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3021Version 2.2.2
3022
464d97ec 3023* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3024 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3025 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3026 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3027 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3028 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3029 other headers.
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3030
3031* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3032 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3033
3034* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3035 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3036 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3037 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3038
3039* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3040 locales. While
3041
3042 locale -a
3043
3044 only lists the names of the supported locales
3045
3046 locale -a --verbose
3047
3048 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3049 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3051Version 2.2.1
3052
3053* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3054 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3055 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3056 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3057 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3058
3059 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3060
3061 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3062
3063 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3064
3065* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3066 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3067 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3068
3069* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3070 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3071
3072* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3073 changed from the default "C" locale.
3074
3075* The usual bug fixes.
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3077Version 2.2
3078
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3079* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3080 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3081 is in progress.
3082
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3083* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3084
793bd4d9 3085* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3087 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3088 obviously requires a database library being available.
3089
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3090* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3091
abbffdf9 3092* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3093
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3094* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3095 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3096
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3097* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3098
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3099* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3100 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3101 and Mark Kettenis.
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3102
3103 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3104 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3105 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3106
a00c3ca9 3107 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3108 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3109
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3110* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3111 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3112 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3113
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3114* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3115 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3116 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3117 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3118
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3119 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3120 structures for the wide character tables.
3121
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3122* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3123
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3124* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3125
3126* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3127
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3128* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3129 and Yutaka Niibe.
3130
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3131* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3132
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3133* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3134
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3135* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3136
3137* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3138
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3139* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3140
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3142 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3143 implemented for Linux.
3144
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3145* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3146 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3147 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3148 versions.
3149
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3150* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3151 Masahide Washizawa.
3152
8f3f1e09 3153* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3154\f
3155Version 2.1.3
3156
3157* bug fixes
3158
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3159\f
3160Version 2.1.2
3161
3162* bug fixes
3163
28f540f4 3164\f
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3165Version 2.1.1
3166
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3167* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3168
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3169* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3170
407d26b7 3171* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3172
3173* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3174
407d26b7 3175* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3176
407d26b7 3177* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3178
3179* Update timezone data files.
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3181* lots of charmaps corrections
3182
3183* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3184
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3186Version 2.1
3187
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3188* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3189 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3190 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3191 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3192 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3193 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3194
c84142e8 3195* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3196 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3197
1fb05e3d 3198* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3199 symbol level.
3200
3201* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3202 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3203
cbdee279 3204* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3205
3206* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3207 numbers.
377a515b 3208
cbdee279 3209* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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3211* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3212 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3213
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3214* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3215 library.
3216
e61abf83 3217* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3218 functions from ISO C 9X.
3219
3220* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3221 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3222
a5a0310d 3223* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3224
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3225* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3226
3227* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3228
440d13e2 3229* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3230
3231* Optimized string functions have been added.
3232
3233* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3234
3235* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3237* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3238 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3239
3240 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3241 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3242
0dee6738 3243 user system wall
48244d09 3244
0dee6738 3245 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3246
0dee6738 3247 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3248
0dee6738 3249 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3251 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3252
3253 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3254
3255 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3257 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3258 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3259 horribly slow.
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3261 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3262 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3263
3264* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3265
3266* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3267
3268* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3269 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3270
3271* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3273* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3274 Bambrough.
3275
3276* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3277 latest draft standards.
3278
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3279* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3280
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3281* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3282~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3285argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3286argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3287argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3288argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3289argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3290argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3291argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3292argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3293argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3294argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3295authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3296authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3297authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3298backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3299backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3300backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3301cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3302cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3303cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3304cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3305cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3306cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3307capget NEW: kernel
3308capset NEW: kernel
3309carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3310cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3311cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3312casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3313casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3314casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3315casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3316casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3317casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3318catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3319catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3320catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3321catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3322catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3323catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3325ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3326ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3327ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3328ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3329ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3330ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3331cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3332cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3333cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3334cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3335cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3336cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3337clearerr_locked REMOVED
3338clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3339clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3340clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3341clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3342clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3343clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3344clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3345conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3346conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3347conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3348cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3349cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3350cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3351cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3352cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3353cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3354creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3355crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3356creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3357creat64 NEW: LFS
3358csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3359csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3360csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3361csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3362csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3363csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3364csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3365csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3366csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3367ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3368ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3369ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3370ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3371ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3372ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3373des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3374ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3375endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3376exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3377exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3378exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3379exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3380exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3381exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3382fattach NEW: STREAMS
3383fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3384fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3385fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3387feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3388fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3389fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3390fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3391feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3392feof_locked REMOVED
3393feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3394ferror_locked REMOVED
3395fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3396fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3397fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3398fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3399feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3400fflush_locked REMOVED
3401ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3402ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3403fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3404fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3405fileno_locked REMOVED
3406fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3407fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3408fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3409fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3410fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3411fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3412fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3413fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3414fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3415fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3416fopen64 NEW: LFS
3417fputc_locked REMOVED
3418fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3419fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3420freopen64 NEW: LFS
3421fseeko NEW: Unix98
3422fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3423fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3424fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3425fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3426ftello NEW: Unix98
3427ftello64 NEW: LFS
3428ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3429ftw64 NEW: LFS
3430fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3431gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3432gamma_r REMOVED
3433gammaf_r REMOVED
3434gammal_r REMOVED
3435getchar_locked REMOVED
3436getdate NEW: Unix98
3437getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3438getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3439getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3440getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3443getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3444getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3445getutxent NEW: Unix98
3446getutxid NEW: Unix98
3447getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3448glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3449globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3450gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3451gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3452grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3453host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3454iconv NEW: iconv
3455iconv_close NEW: iconv
3456iconv_open NEW: iconv
3457if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3458if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3459if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3460if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3461in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3462in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3463inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3464isastream NEW: STREAMS
3465iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3466key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3467key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3468key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3469key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3470key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3471key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3472key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3473key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3474key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3475llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3476llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3477llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3478llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3479llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3480llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3481log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3482log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3483log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3484lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3485lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3486lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3487lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3488lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3489lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3490lseek64 NEW: LFS
3491makecontext NEW: Unix98
3492mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3493mmap64 NEW: LFS
3494moncontrol REMOVED
3495modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3496nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3497nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3498nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3499nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3500nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3501nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3503netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3504nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3505nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3506nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3508nftw64 NEW: LFS
3509open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3510passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3511pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3512pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3513pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3514pread NEW: Unix98
3515pread64 NEW: LFS
3516printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3517printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3518profil_counter REMOVED
3519pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3520pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3521ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3522ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3523putc_locked REMOVED
3524putchar_locked REMOVED
3525putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3526putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3527putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3528pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3529pwrite NEW: Unix98
3530pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3531readdir64 NEW: LFS
3532readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3533remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3534remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3535remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3536round NEW: ISO C 9x
3537roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3538roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3539rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3540scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3541scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3542scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3543scandir64 NEW: LFS
3544sendfile NEW: kernel
3545setcontext NEW: Unix98
3546setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3547setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3549sigignore NEW: Unix98
3550sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3551sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3552sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3553sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3554sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3555sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3556sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3557sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3558statfs64 NEW: LFS
3559statvfs NEW: Unix98
3560statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3561strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3562strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3563strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3564strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3565svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3566svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3567svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3568swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3569tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3570tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3571tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3572tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3573tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3574tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3575trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3576truncate64 NEW: LFS
3577truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3578truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3579umount2 NEW: kernel
3580unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3581updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3582user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3583utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3584versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3585versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3586waitid NEW: Unix98
3587wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3588wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3589wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3590wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3591wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3592wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3593wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3594wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3595wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3596wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3597write_profiling REMOVED
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3598xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3599xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3600xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3601xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3602xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3603xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3604xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3605xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3606xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3607xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3608xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3609xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3610xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3611xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3612xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3613~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3615Version 2.0.6
3616
3617* more bug fixes
3618
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3620Version 2.0.5
3621
3622* more bug fixes
3623
3624* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3625
3626* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3627
3628* rewrite of cbrt function
3629
3630* update of timezone data
3631\f
3632Version 2.0.4
3633
3634* more bug fixes
3635\f
3636Version 2.0.3
3637
3638* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3639\f
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3640Version 2.0.2
3641
3642* more bug fixes
3643
3644* add atoll function
3645
3646* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3647
3648* fix math functions
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3650Version 2.0.1
3651
3652* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3653
3654* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3655
3656* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3657 the ELF dynamic loader.
3658
3659* support for parallel builds is improved
3660\f
40a4b79f 3661Version 2.0
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3663* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3664 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3665 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3666
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3667* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3668 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3669 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3670 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3671 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3672 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3673 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3674 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3675 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3676 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3677 files in the ELF format.
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3678
3679* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3680 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3681
3682* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3683 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3684 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3685 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3686 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3687 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3688 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3689 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3690 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3691 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3692 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3694* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3695 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3696 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3697 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3698 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3699
f7eac6eb 3700* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3701 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3702 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3703 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3704 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3705
3706* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3708* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3709 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3710 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3711 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3712 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3713 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3714 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3715 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3716 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3717
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3718* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3719 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3720 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3721
3722* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3723 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3724 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3725
3726* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3727 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3728 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3729 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3730
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3731* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3732 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3733 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3734
3735* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3736 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3737 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3738
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3739* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3740 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3741
f7eac6eb 3742* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3743 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3744 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3745 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3746
3747* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3748 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3749 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3750
71733723 3751* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3752 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3753 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3754 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3755 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3756 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3757 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3758 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3759
3760* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3761 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3762 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3763 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3764 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3765 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3766 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3767
3768* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3769 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3770 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3771 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3772 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3773 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3774
3775* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3776 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3777
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3778* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3779 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3780 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3782* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3783
3784* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3785 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3786 their use is discouraged.
3787
3788* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3789 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3791* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3792 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3793
3794* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3795 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3796
3797* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3798 see <dirent.h>.
3799
3800* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3801 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3802 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3803 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3804 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3805
3806* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3807 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3808 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3809 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3810
3811* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3812 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3813
3814* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3815 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3816 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3817 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3818 number generator.
3819
3820* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3821 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3822
3823* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3824 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3825
71733723 3826* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3827 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3828 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3829 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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3831* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3832
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3833* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3834 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3835 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3836
3837* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3838 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3840* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3841 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3842 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3843 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3844
3845* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3846 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3847 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3848 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3849 programs already written to use it.)
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3850
3851* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3852 constants.
3853
3854* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3855 with 4.4 BSD.
3856
3857* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3858 a given effective group ID.
3859
3860* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3861 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3862 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3863 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3864
3865* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3866 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3867 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3868 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3869 doing the same thing.
3870
3871* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3872 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3873
3874* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3875 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3876
3877* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3878
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3879* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3880 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3881 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3882 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3883 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3884
3885* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3886 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3887
3888* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3889 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3890 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3891 function.
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3892
3893* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3894
3895* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3896 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3897 strings.
3898
3899* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3900 and writing the utmp file.
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3901
3902* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3903 Thorsten Kukuk.
3904
3905* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3906 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3907 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3908
3909* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3910 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3911
3912* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3913 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3914 specification.
3915
3916* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3917 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3918 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3919 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3920
3921* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3922 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3923 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3924
3925* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3926 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3927 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3928 expression matcher.
3929
3930* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3931 functionality.
3932
3933* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3934 by Ulrich Drepper.
3935
3936* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3937
3938* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3939 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3940 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3941\f
3942Version 1.09
3943
3944* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3945
3946* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3947 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3948
3949* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3950 want to put themselves in the background.
3951
3952* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3953 run without an operating system.
3954
3955* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3956 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3957
3958* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3959 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3960
3961* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3962
3963* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3964 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3965 have YP (aka NIS).
3966
3967* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3968 conventions.
3969
3970* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3971 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3972\f
3973Version 1.08
3974
3975* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3976 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3977 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3978
3979* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3980 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3981
3982* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3983 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3984
3985* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3986
3987* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3988
3989* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3990 compatibility.
3991
3992* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3993 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3994 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3995
3996* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3997
3998* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3999 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4000 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4001
4002* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4003 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4004 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4005 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4006 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4007 on a block).
4008
4009* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4010 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4011 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4012 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4013 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4014 cross-compiler.
4015
4016* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4017 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4018\f
4019Version 1.07
4020
4021* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4022 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4023
4024* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4025 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4026 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4027
4028* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4029 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4030 address of the last character written.
4031
4032* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4033 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4034
4035* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4036 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4037
4038* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4039 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4040 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4041 you dereference this pointer.
4042
4043* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4044 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4045
4046* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4047 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4048 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4049 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4050
4051* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4052 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4053 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4054 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4055\f
4056Version 1.06
4057
4058* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4059 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4060 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4061 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4062 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4063
4064* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4065
4066* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4067
4068* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4069 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4070
4071* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4072 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4073
4074* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4075 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4076
4077* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4078 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4079 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4080 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4081 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4082
4083* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4084 to the error code in `errno'.
4085
4086* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4087 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4088 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4089 malloc'd string.
4090
4091* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4092 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4093 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4094
4095* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4096 uniquely-named temporary file.
4097\f
4098Version 1.05
4099
4100* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4101 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4102 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4103
4104* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4105 characters.
4106
4107* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4108 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4109
4110* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4111\f
4112Version 1.04
4113
4114* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4115 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4116 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4117 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4118
4119* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4120 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4121 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4122
4123* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4124 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4125
4126* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4127 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4128 made itself into a shared library.
4129
4130* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4131 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4132
4133* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4134 with limited length.
4135
4136* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4137
4138* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4139
4140* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4141
4142* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4143 function for traversing a directory tree.
4144
4145* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4146 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4147 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4148 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4149
4150* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4151 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4152
4153* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4154
4155* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4156 things to your strings.
4157
4158* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4159
4160* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4161 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4162 supporting those systems.
4163
4164* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4165 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4166 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4167 configuration files.
4168
4169* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4170 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4171
4172* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4173 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4174 in <strings.h>.)
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4175
4176* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4177 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4178 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4179 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4180 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4181 required storage is not available.
4182
4183* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4184 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4185
4186* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4187 latest files released from Berkeley.
4188\f
4189----------------------------------------------------------------------
4190Copyright information:
4191
58b587c1 4192Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4193
4194 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4195 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4196 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4197 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4198
4199 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4200 of this document, or of portions of it,
4201 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4202 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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