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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28.1
9
10The following bugs are resolved with this release:
11
1e5c5303 12 [19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
5473739a 13 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
fc0e3393 14 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
df11de91 15 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
4b25485f 16 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3e8d8dd5 17 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
2f498f3d 18 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
aa8a3e4c 19 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
69d1e73d 20 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
58559f14 21 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
044c96f0 22 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2339d6a5 23 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
85262025 24 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
e7d22db2 25 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
65010329 26 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
3a67c72c 27 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
aff9b377 28 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
5256ffc5 29 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
ce6ba630 30 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
5f1ae50a 31 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
bee4baf6 32 [24018] gettext may return NULL
be62bbb6 33 [24022] riscv may lack <asm/syscalls.h>
198bfee8 34 [24024] strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-error
8f83d095 35 [24027] malloc: Integer overflow in realloc
2a8612b2 36 [24034] tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when using GCC 8
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38Security related changes:
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40 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
41 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
42 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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44Version 2.28
45
46Major new features:
47
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48* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
49 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
50 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
51 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
52 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
53 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
54 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
55 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
56 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
57 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
58 archive or binary locales.
59
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60* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
61 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
62 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
63 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
64 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
65 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
66 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
67 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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68 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
69 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
70 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
71 validated for i686.
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73* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
74 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
75 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
76 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
77 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
78 field) to indicate such support is required.
79
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80* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
81 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
82 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
83
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84* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
85 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
86
87 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
88 fMxaddfNx functions.
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90 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
91 fMxsubfNx functions.
92
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93 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
94 fMxmulfNx functions.
95
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96 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
97 fMxdivfNx functions.
98
e607a352 99* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 100 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 101 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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102 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
103 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 105* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 106 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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108* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
109 patches.
110
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111* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
112 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
113 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
114 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
115 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
116 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
117 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
118 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
119
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120* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
121 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
122 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
123 the fstatat64 function.
124
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125* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
126 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
127 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
128 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
129 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
130 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
131 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
132 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
133 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
134
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135* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
136 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
137 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
138 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
139 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
140 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
141 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
142 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
143 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
144 results in a load failure now.
145
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146* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
147 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
148 <threads.h>:
149
150 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
151 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
152
153 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
154 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
155
156 - call_once for function call synchronization.
157
158 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
159 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
160
161 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
162
163 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
164
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165Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
166
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167* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
168 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
169 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
170
171* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
172 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
173 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
174 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
175 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
176 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
177
178* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
179 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
180 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
181 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
182 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
183 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
184 (Bug #1190.)
185
186* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
187 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
188 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
189 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
190 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
191 further explanation.
192
193 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
194 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
195 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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197* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
198
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199* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
200 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
201 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
202
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203* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
204 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
205 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
206 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
207
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208* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
209 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
210 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
211 for this function instead.
212
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213* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
214 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
215 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
216
217* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
218 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
219 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
220 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
221
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222* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
223 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
224 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
225 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
226 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
227
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228* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
229 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
230 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
231 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
232 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
233 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
234 such as libgcrypt.
235
236* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
237 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
238 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
239 enabled.
240
241* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
242 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
243 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
244
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245* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
246 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
247 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
248 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
249 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
250 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
251
252 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
253 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
254 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
255 behavior in a future release.
256
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257Changes to build and runtime requirements:
258
f2873d2d 259 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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260
261Security related changes:
262
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263 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
264 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
265 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
266 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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268 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
269 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
270
271 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
272 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
273 Izbyshev.
274
275 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
276 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
277 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
278
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279The following bugs are resolved with this release:
280
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281 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
282 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
283 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
284 when __WORDSIZE != 64
285 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
286 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
287 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
288 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
289 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
290 14651
291 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
292 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
293 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
294 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
295 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
296 conversion is given
297 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
298 date
299 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
300 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
301 scope with -O1 and higher
302 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
303 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
304 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
305 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
306 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
307 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
308 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
309 horrible machine code)
310 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
311 last constant.
312 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
313 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
314 symbols
315 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
316 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
317 defined
318 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
319 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
320 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
321 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
322 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
323 fpscr.c'
324 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
325 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
326 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
327 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
328 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
329 the base address
330 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
331 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
332 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
333 open_verify
334 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
335 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
336 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
337 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
338 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
339 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
340 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
341 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
342 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
343 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
344 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
345 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
346 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
347 dlopen
348 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
349 AT_SECURE=1
350 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
351 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
352 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
353 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
354 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
355 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
356 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
357 for Spanish with CLDR
358 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
359 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
360 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
361 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
362 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
363 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
364 es_BO
365 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
366 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
367 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
368 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
369 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
370 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
371 dlopen failures
372 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
373 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
374 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
375 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
376 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
377 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
378 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
379 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
380 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
381 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
382 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
383 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
384 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
385 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
386 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
387 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
388 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
389 makecontext
390 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
391 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
392 required
393 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
394 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
395 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
396 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
397 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
398 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
399 disabled
400 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
401 failure
402 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
403 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
404 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
405 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
406 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
407 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
408 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
409 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
410 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
411 and libc build with -Os)
412 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
413 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
414 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
415 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
416 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
417 that changes /etc/passwd
418 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
419 (CVE-2018-11237)
420 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
421 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
422 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
423 posix/regcomp.c
424 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
425 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
426 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
427 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
428 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
429 AT_SECURE
430 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
431 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
432 parser.c
433 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
434 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
435 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
436 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
437 directed rounding
438 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
439 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
440 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
441 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
442 lookup
443 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
444 interposition
445 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
446 DSO boundaries.
447 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
448 <linux/time.h>
449 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
450 checking
451 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
452 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
453 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
454 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
455 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
456 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
457 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
458 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
459 processors
460 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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463Version 2.27
464
465Major new features:
466
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467* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
468 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 469 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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470 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
471 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
472 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
473 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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474 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
475 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 476
ac817e08 477* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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478 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
479 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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481* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
482
4cf82d23 483* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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485* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
486 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
487 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
488 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
489 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
490 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
491 from a security and performance perspective.
492
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493* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
494 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
495 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
496 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
497
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500 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
501 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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502 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
503
a23aa5b7 504* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 505 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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506 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
507 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
508 _Float128.
509
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510* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
511 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
512 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 513
4bab0224 514* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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516* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
517 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
518 pkey_get.
519
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520* The copy_file_range function was added.
521
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522* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
523
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524* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
525 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
526 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
527
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529 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
530 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
531 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
532 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
533 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
534 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
535
536 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
537 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
538 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
539 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
540 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
541 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
542 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
543
544 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
545 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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547 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
548 respectively.
549
550 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
551 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
552 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
553 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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555 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
556 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
557 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
558
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560 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 561 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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564 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
565 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
566
567 - rv64imac lp64
568 - rv64imafdc lp64
569 - rv64imafdc lp64d
570
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573* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
574 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 575 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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576 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
577 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
578 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
579 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
580 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
581 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
582 fix this.
583
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584* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
585 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
586 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
587
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588* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
589 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
590 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
591 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
592 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
593 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
594 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
595 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
596 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
597 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
598 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
599 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
600 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
601 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
602 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
603 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
604 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
605 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
606 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
607 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
608 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
609 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
610 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
611 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
612 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
613 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
614
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616 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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619 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
620 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
621 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
622 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
623 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
624 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
625
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626* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
627 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
628 exp10l for these functions instead.
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630* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
631 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
632 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
633
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634* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
635 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
636 ignored.
637
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638* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
639 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
640 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
641 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
642
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643* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
644 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
645
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646* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
647 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
648
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649* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
650 programs.
651
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652* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
653
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654* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
655 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
656 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
657 instead.
658
659 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
660 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
661 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
662 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
663 use, but predates the bits convention.
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666
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667* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
668 subdirectory.
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670Security related changes:
671
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672 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
673 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
674 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
675 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
676 script.)
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678 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
679 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
680 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
681 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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683 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
684 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
685 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
686 of service.
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689 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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690 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
691
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692 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
693 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
694 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
695 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
696
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697 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
698 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
699 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
700 Qualys.
701
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702 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
703 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
704 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
705 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
706 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
707
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708 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
709 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
710 current directory.
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712 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
713 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
714 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
715
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716 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
717 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
718 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
719
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720 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
721 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
722 small, instead of NULL.
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726 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
727 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
728 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
729 locale
730 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
731 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
732 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
733 cases
734 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
735 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
736 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
737 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
738 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
739 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
740 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
741 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
742 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
743 "Bangla"
744 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
745 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
746 width Latin characters
747 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
748 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
749 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
750 letters
751 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
752 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
753 (CVE-2009-5064)
754 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
755 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
756 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
757 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
758 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
759 if malloc succeeded
760 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
761 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
762 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
763 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
764 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
765 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
766 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
767 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
768 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
769 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
770 U+309A
771 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
772 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
773 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
774 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
775 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
776 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
777 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
778 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
779 for Nicaragua
780 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
781 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
782 are not found.
783 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
784 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
785 access
786 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
787 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
788 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
789 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
790 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
791 __regcall calling convention
792 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
793 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
794 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
795 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
796 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
797 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
798 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
799 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
800 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
801 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
802 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
803 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
804 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
805 locale
806 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
807 protector=all
808 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
809 wcwidth
810 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
811 consistency check failures
812 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
813 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
814 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
815 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
816 PIE
817 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
818 locales
819 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
820 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
821 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
822 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
823 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
824 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
825 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
826 on memory allocation failure
827 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
828 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
829 the suspect)
830 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
831 default (i386)
832 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
833 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
834 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
835 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
836 instead of EAI_NODATA
837 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
838 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
839 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
840 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
841 implementation
842 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
843 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
844 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
845 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
846 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
847 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
848 allocation in syscall loops)
849 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
850 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
851 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
852 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
853 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
854 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
855 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
856 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
857 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
858 occur with -O3
859 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
860 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
861 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
862 amounts)
863 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
864 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
865 niu_NZ
866 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
867 checks
868 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
869 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
870 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
871 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
872 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
873 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
874 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
875 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
876 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
877 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
878 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
879 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
880 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
881 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
882 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
883 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
884 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
885 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
886 parsing after OOM
887 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
888 object
889 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
890 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
891 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
892 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
893 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
894 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
895 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
896 ppc64le
897 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
898 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
899 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
900 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
901 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
902 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
903 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
904 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
905 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
906 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
907 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
908 math_force_eval
909 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
910 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
911 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
912 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
913 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
914 the svid compat wrapper
915 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
916 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
917 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
918 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
919 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
920 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
921 --verbose.
922 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
923 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
924 to 2.26
925 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
926 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
927 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
928 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
929 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
930 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
931 (CVE-2017-15804)
932 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
933 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
934 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
935 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
936 failure."
937 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
938 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
939 -m32
940 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
941 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
942 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
943 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
944 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
945 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
946 inside the ASCII printable range
947 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
948 -mlong-double-64
949 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
950 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
951 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
952 Internet
953 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
954 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
955 backslash
956 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
957 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
958 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
959 heaps in an arena
960 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
961 networking interface
962 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
963 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
964 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
965 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
966 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
967 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
968 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
969 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
970 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
971 order
972 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
973 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
974 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
975 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
976 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
977 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
978 same as for Croatian
979 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
980 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
981 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
982 for initial thread"
983 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
984 SC_SSIZE_MAX
985 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
986 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
987 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
988 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
989 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
990 (CVE-2017-1000408)
991 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
992 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
993 modified in case of success
994 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
995 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
996 success
997 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
998 stack-protector=all
999 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1000 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1001 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1002 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1003 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1004 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1005 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1006 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1007 adding it on top
1008 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1009 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1010 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1011 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1012 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1013 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1014 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1015 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1016 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1017 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1018 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1019 elision and tunables
1020 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1021 "invalid" exception
1022 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1023 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1024 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1025 exception
1026 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1027 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1028 power4
1029 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1030 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1031 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1032 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1033 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1034 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1035 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1036 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1037 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1040Version 2.26
1041
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1042Major new features:
1043
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1044* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1045 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1046 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1047 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1048 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1049 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1050 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1051
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1052* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1053 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1054 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1055 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1056 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1057 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1058 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1060* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1061 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1062 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1063
2b2ccd0c 1064* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1066 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1067 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1068 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1070 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1071 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1072 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1073 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1074 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1076 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1077 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1078 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1080* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1081 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 1082
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1083* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1084 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1085 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1086 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1088* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1089 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1090 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1091 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1093* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1094 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1095 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1096 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1098* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1099 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1100 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1101
2b2ccd0c 1102* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1103 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1104 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1105 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1106
2b2ccd0c 1107 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1108 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1109 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1110 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1111 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1112
1113 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1114 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1115 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1116 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1117 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1118 interfaces should be used instead.
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1120Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1121
1122* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1123 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1124 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1125 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1126 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1127 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1128 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1129 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1130
1131* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1132 removed.
1133
1134* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1135 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1136 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1137 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1138
1139* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1140 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1141 default.
1142
1143 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1144 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1145 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1146 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1147 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1149 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1150 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1151 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1152 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1153
1154* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1155 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1156 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1157 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1158
1159* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1160 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1162* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1163 exported by accident.
1164
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1165* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1166 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1167 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1168
1169* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1170 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1171 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1172 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1173
1174* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1175
1176* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1177
1178* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1179 free instead.
1180
1181* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1182 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1183
1184* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1185 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1186
1187* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1188 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1189 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1190 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1191 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1192 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1193 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1194 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1195
1196* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1197 synced with the kernel:
1198
1199 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1200 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1201
1202 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1203 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1204 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1205
1206 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1207 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1208
1209Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1210
1211* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1212 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1213 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1214
7e368000 1215* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1218 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1220 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1221 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1222 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1223 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1224 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1227
e14a2772 1228* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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1229 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1230
1231* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1232 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1233
1234* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1235 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1236 (CVE-2010-3192).
1237
1238* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1239 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1241The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1243 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1244 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1245 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1246 fields
1247 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1248 (CVE-2010-3192)
1249 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1250 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1251 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1252 ld.bfd is available
1253 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1254 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1255 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1256 x86 and other generic code
1257 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1258 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1259 incorrect
1260 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1261 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1262 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1263 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1264 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1265 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1266 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1267 resolver
1268 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1269 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1270 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1271 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1272 chillu characters
1273 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1274 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1275 receiving data
1276 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1277 whitespace
1278 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1279 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1280 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1281 for Peru
1282 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1283 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1284 failures consistently
1285 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1286 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1287 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1288 frame-pointer on i386
1289 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1290 register
1291 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1292 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1293 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1294 generic c code is used
1295 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1296 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1297 around 4000
1298 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1299 (CVE-2017-12133)
1300 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1301 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1302 with -lieee
1303 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1304 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1305 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1306 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1307 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1308 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1309 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1310 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1311 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1312 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1313 remove()
1314 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1315 checked for errors.
1316 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1317 new posix_spawn implementation
1318 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1319 leads to lower CPU frequency
1320 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1321 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1322 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1323 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1324 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1325 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1326 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1327 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1328 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1329 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1330 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1331 not support gethostbyname4_r
1332 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1333 switching
1334 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1335 arenas
1336 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1337 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1338 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1339 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1340 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1341 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1342 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1343 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1344 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1345 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1346 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1347 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1348 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1349 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1350 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1351 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1352 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1353 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1354 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1355 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1356 retry value
1357 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1358 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1359 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1360 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1361 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1362 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1363 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1364 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1365 [21537] libc:
1366 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1367 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1368 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1369 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1370 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1371 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1372 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1373 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1374 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1375 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1376 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1377 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1378 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1379 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1380 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1381 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1382 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1383 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1384 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1385 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1386 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1387 issue on x86-64
1388 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1389 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1390 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1391 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1392 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1393 construction
1394 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1395 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1396 between_2_3
1397 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1398 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1399 conditions
1400 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1401 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1402 Hindi Locale
1403 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1404 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1405 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1406 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1407 locale
1408 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1409 leading to relocation crash
1410 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1411 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1412 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1413 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1414 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1415 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1416 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1417 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1418 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1419 locale
1420 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1421 locale
1422 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1423 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1424 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1425 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1426 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1427 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1428 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1429 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1430 strings
1431 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1432 protector=all
1433 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1434 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1435 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1436 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1437 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1438 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1439 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1440 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1441 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1442 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1443 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1444 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1445 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1446 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1447 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1448 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1449 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1450 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1451 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1452 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1453 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1454 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1455 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1456 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1457 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1458 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1459 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1460 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1461 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1462 with unicode 9.0
1463 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1464 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1465 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1466 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1467 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1471
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1472* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1473 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1474 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1475 Library.
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1477* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1478 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1479 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1480 the GNU C Library.
1481
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1482* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1483 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1484 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1485 the GNU C Library.
1486
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1487* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1488 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1489 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1490 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1491 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1492 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1493 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1494 will not.
1495
1496 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1497 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1498 many years.
1499
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1500* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1501 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1502 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1503
1504 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1505 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1506 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1507 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1508 problem.
1509
ec94343f 1510* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1511 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1512 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1514* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1515 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1516 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1517 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1518 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1519 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1520 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1521 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1522 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1523 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1524 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1525 WINT_WIDTH.
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1527* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1528
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1529 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1530
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1531 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1532 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1533 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1534
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1535 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1536 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1537
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1538 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1539 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1540
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1541 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1542
29cb9293 1543 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1545 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1546 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1547
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1548 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1549
eb3c12c7 1550 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1551 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1552
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1553* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1554 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1555
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1556* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1557 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1558 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1559
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1560* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1561 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1562 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1563 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1564 effects of the memory clear).
1565
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1566* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1567 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1568 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1569 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1570
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1571* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1572 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1573 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1574 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1575 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1576 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1578* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1579 have been added.
1580
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1581* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1582 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1583 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1584 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1585 as large as several megabytes.
1586
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1587* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1588 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1589 been removed.
1590
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1591* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1592 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1593 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1594 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1595 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1596 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1597 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1598
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1599* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1600 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1601 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1602 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1603
099191b1 1604* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1605 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1606 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1607 Internet.
1608
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1609* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1610 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1611 They were already unimplemented.
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1613* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1614 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1615 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1616 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1617
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1618* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1619 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1620 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1621 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1622 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1623
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1624* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1625 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1626 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1627 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1628 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1629
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1630* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1631 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1632 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1633 did not reflect that.
1634
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1635* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1636 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1637 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1638 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1639 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1640 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1641 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1642 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1643
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1644* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1645 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1646 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1647 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1648
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1649* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1650 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1651 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1652 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1653
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1654* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1655 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1656 guarantees.
1657
1658* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1659 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1660 make state changes.
1661
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1662Security related changes:
1663
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1665 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1666 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1667 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1668 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1670* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1671 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1672 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1673 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1674 (CVE-2015-5180)
1675
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1676The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1677
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1678 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1679 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1680 protector-all
1681 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1682 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1683 before it started waiting
1684 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1685 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1686 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1687 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1688 wrong type
1689 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1690 library linked with pthread
1691 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1692 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1693 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1694 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1695 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1696 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1697 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1698 when it shouldnt
1699 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1700 not
1701 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1702 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1703 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1704 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1705 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1706 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1707 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1708 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1709 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1710 termination
1711 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1712 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1713 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1714 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1715 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1716 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1717 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1718 causes a segmentation fault
1719 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1720 linking
1721 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1722 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1723 uninitialized GOT
1724 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1725 versions
1726 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1727 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1728 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1729 is always true.
1730 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1731 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1732 modes
1733 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1734 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1735 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1736 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1737 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1738 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1739 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1740 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1741 libpthread.a
1742 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1743 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1744 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1745 _res_hconf
1746 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1747 information.
1748 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1749 penalty
1750 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1751 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1752 cause transition penalty
1753 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1754 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1755 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1756 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1757 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1758 mcount.oS)
1759 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1760 Checking
1761 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1762 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1763 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1764 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1765 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1766 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1767 multi-arch
1768 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1769 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1770 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1771 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1772 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1773 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1774 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1775 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1776 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1777 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1778 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1779 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1780 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1781 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1782 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1783 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1784 glibc
1785 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1786 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1787 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1788 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1789 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1790 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1791 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1792 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1793 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1794 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1795 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1796 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1797 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1798 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1799 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1800 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1801 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1802 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1803 RES_USE_INET6
1804 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1805 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1806 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1807 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1808 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1809 wrong condition
1810 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1811 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1812 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1813 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1814 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1815 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1816 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1817 clang
1818 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1819 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1820 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1821 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1822 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1826* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1827 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1828 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1829 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1830 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1831 architectures.
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1833* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1834 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1835 been included in previous releases.
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1837* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1838 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1839
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1840* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1841 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1842 instead of “union wait”.
1843
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1844* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1845 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1846 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1847 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1848 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1849 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1850 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1851
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1852* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1853 API.
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1855* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1856 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1857 drop it.
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1859* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1860 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1861 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1862 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1863 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1864 extensions.
1865
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1867
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1868* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1869 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1870 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1871
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1872* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1873 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1874 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1875 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1877* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1878 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1879 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1880
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1881* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1882 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1883 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1884
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1885* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1886 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1887 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1888 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1891
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1892 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1893 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1894 of MS-DOS.
1895 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1896 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1897 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1898 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1899 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1900 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1901 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1902 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1903 CLDR data
1904 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1905 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1906 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1907 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1908 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1909 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1910 romanisation
1911 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1912 and +/-
1913 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1914 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1915 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1916 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1917 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1918 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1919 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1920 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1921 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1922 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1923 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1924 all locales
1925 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1926 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1927 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1928 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1929 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1930 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1931 execute
1932 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1933 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1934 -Wsystem-headers
1935 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1936 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1937 Romanian locale data
1938 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1939 symbol
1940 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1941 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1942 language
1943 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1944 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1945 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1946 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1947 machine
1948 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1949 description
1950 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1951 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1952 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1953 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1954 when using RTLD_NEXT
1955 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1956 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1957 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1958 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1959 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1960 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1961 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1962 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1963 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1964 Excavator core
1965 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1966 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1967 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1968 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1969 double range
1970 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1971 part zero incorrect
1972 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1973 equality tests
1974 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1975 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1976 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1977 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1978 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1979 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1980 glibc-2.22
1981 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1982 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1983 'tst-numeric.c'
1984 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1985 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1986 low part
1987 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1988 result
1989 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1990 unaligned stack
1991 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1992 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1993 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1994 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1995 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1996 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1997 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1998 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1999 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2000 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2001 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2002 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2003 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2004 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2005 modes
2006 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2007 server addresses
2008 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2009 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2010 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2011 response to getaddrinfo
2012 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2013 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2014 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2015 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2016 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2017 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2018 sometimes incorrect
2019 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2020 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2021 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2022 record types
2023 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2024 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2025 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2026 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2027 (CVE-2016-3075)
2028 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2029 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2030 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2031 resolving symbols
2032 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2033 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2034 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2035 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2036 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2037 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2038 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2039 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2040 gethosts
2041 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2042 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2043 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2044 (CVE-2016-3706)
2045 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2046 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2047 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2048 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2049 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2050 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2051 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2052 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2053 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2054 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2055 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2056 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2057 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2058 executable
2059 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2060 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2061 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2062 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2063 XPG3
2064 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2065 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2066 (CVE-2016-4429)
2067 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2068 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2069 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2070 AS not supporting AVX512
2071 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2072 sNaN argument
2073 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2074 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2075 argument
2076 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2077 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2078 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2079 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2080 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2081 eax=0x80000001
2082 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2083 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2084 subnormals
2085 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2086 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2087 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2088 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2089 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2090 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2091 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2092 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2093 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2094 input
2095 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2096 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2097 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2098 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2099 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2100 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2101 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2102 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2103 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2104 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2105 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2106 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2107 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2108 double rounding
2109 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2110 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2111 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2112 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2113 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2114 (Only arm/linux)
2115 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2116 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2117 fallbacks
2118 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2119 "invalid" exceptions
2120 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2121 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2122 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2123 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2124 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2125 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2126 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2127 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2128 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2131
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2132* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2133 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2134 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2135 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2136 89, 16061, and 18568.
2137
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2138* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2139 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2140 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2141 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2142 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2143 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2144 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2145
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2146* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2147 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2148 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2149
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2150* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2151 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2152 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2153 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2154 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2155 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2156 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2157
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2158* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2159 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2160 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2161 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2162 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2163 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2164 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2165 Ericsson.)
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2167* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2168 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2169 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2170 independent of the GNU C Library.
2171
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2172* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2173 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2175* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2176 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2177 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2178 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2179 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2180 Linux kernel.
2181
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2182* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2183 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2185* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2186 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2187 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2188 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2189 defining their own copy.
2190
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2191* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2192 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2193 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2195Security related changes:
2196
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2197* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2198 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2199
2200* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2201 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2202 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2203 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2204 (CVE-2015-8777)
2205
2206* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2207 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2208
2209* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2210 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2211
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2212* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2213 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2214 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2216* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2217 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2218 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2219 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2220 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2221 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2222 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2223 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2224 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2225 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2226 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2227 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2228 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2229
ad372e29 2230The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2232 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2233 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2234 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2235 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2236 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2237 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2238 use `mkstemp'
2239 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2240 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2241 overflow/underflow errors
2242 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2243 overflow/underflow
2244 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2245 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2246 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2247 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2248 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2249 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2250 are not contiguous
2251 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2252 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2253 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2254 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2255 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2256 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2257 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2258 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2259 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2260 all exceptions
2261 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2262 arguments
2263 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2264 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2265 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2266 should include
2267 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2268 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2269 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2270 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2271 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2272 GNU/Linux
2273 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2274 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2275 arguments
2276 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2277 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2278 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2279 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2280 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2281 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2282 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2283 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2284 rounding results
2285 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2286 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2287 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2288 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2289 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2290 fails
2291 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2292 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2293 block boundary
2294 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2295 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2296 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2297 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2298 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2299 4.7?
2300 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2301 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2302 (related to lock elision)
2303 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2304 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2305 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2306 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2307 (CVE-2015-8779)
2308 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2309 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2310 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2311 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2312 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2313 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2314 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2315 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2316 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2317 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2318 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2319 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2320 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2321 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2322 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2323 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2324 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2325 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2326 contains a vector instruction exception.
2327 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2328 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2329 locales
2330 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2331 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2332 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2333 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2334 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2335 missing break ?
2336 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2337 32bit processes
2338 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2339 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2340 infinity
2341 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2342 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2343 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2344 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2345 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2346 be forced unloaded
2347 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2348 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2349 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2350 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2351 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2352 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2353 statically too large
2354 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2355 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2356 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2357 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2358 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2359 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2360 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2361 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2362 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2363 FUTEX_SHARED
2364 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2365 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2366 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2367 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2368 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2369 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2370 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2371 opendir()
2372 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2373 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2374 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2375 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2376 signgam
2377 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2378 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2379 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2380 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2381 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2382 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2383 dependencies
2384 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2385 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2386 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2387 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2388 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2389 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2390 (CVE-2015-8776)
2391 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2392 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2393 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2394 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2395 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2396 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2397 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2398 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2399 contention
2400 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2401 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2402 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2403 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2404 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2405 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2406 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2407 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2408 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2409 rounding modes
2410 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2411 ILP32
2412 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2413 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2414 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2415 threshold
2416 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2417 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2418 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2419 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2420 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2421 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2422 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2423 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2424 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2425 pthread_setaffinity_np
2426 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2427 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2428 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2429 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2430 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2431 prelink
2432 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2433 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2434 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2435 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2436 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2437 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2438 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2439 bits/mathcalls.h
2440 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2441 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2442 for C99-based standards
2443 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2444 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2445 math-only
2446 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2447 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2448 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2449 disabled
2450 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2451 "inexact" exceptions
2452 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2453 arguments
2454 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2455 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2456 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2457 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2458 rules
2459 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2460 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2461 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2462 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2463 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2464 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2465 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2466 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2467 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2468 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2469 from 32bit
2470 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2471 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2472 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2473 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2474 subnormals
2475 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2476 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2477 error on 32-bit architectures
2478 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2479 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2480 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2481 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2482 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2483 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2484 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2485 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2486 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2487 -Os
2488 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2489 CPU's.
2490 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2491 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2492 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2493 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2494 architectures
2495 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2497Version 2.22
2498
2499* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2500
3df5cd98 2501 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2502 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2503 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2504 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2505 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2506 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2507 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2508 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2509 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2510 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2511 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2512 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2513 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2514 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2515 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2516 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2517 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2518 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2519 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2520 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2522* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2523 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2524
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2525* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2526 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2527 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2528 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2529 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2530 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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2532* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2533 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2534 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2535 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2536 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2537
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2538* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2539 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2540 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2541
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2542* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2543 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2544 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2545 17998.
2546
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2547* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2548 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2549 condition in some applications.
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2550
2551* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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2552 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2553 pow, powf.
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2554 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2555 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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AS
2556 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2557 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2558 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2559
2560* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2561 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2562 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2563 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2564
2565* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2566 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2567 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2568
2569* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2570 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2571
2572* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2573 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2574 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2575
a03ba363 2576 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2577 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2578 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2579\f
58b930ae
SP
2580Version 2.21
2581
2582* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2583
042e1521 2584 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2585 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2586 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2587 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2588 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2589 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2590 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2591 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2592 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2593 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2594 17892.
2595
46d54873
FW
2596* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2597 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2598 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2599 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2600 intended.
042e1521
CD
2601
2602* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2603 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2604 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2605 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2606 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2607 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2608
522e6ee3
CLT
2609* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2610
d3b00f46
AZ
2611* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2612 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2613 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2614
8d2c0a59
AZ
2615* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2616 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2617 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2618 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2619 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2620 effects being visible outside transactions.
2621
dc400d7b
RE
2622* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2623 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2624
0f9dfe04
L
2625* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2626
a39208bd
CD
2627* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2628 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2629 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2630 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2631 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2632
a5357b7c
JL
2633* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2634 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2635
e54db0ea
AM
2636* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2637 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2638 format.
11e3417a 2639
4863355a
JM
2640* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2641 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2642 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2643
a4ecc9eb
JM
2644* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2645 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2646
0d560bbf 2647* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2648
2649* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2650 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2651 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2652 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2653
2654* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2655 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2656
2657* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2658 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2659 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2660 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2661 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2662 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2663 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2664 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2665 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2666 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2667 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2668 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2669 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2670
2671 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2672 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2673 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2674 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2675 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2676\f
d5b396c1
AM
2677Version 2.20
2678
2679* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2680
6a9350c8
JM
2681 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2682 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2683 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2684 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2685 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2686 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2687 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2688 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2689 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2690 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2691 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2692 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2693 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2694 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2695 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2696
95ee7fb1
SL
2697* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2698 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2699 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2700 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2701 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2702 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2703 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2704 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2705 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2706 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2707
0961f7e1
JL
2708* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2709 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2710 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2711 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2712 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2713
f940b965
RE
2714* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2715
d0f5b3f8
JM
2716* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2717 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2718
d6fe5e58
JM
2719* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2720 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2721 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2722 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2723 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2724 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2725
464263cc
JM
2726* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2727 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2728
2729* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2730 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2731 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2732 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2733 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2734 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2735 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2736
2737* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2738
2739* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2740 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2741 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2742 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2743 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2744 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2745 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2746
2747* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2748 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2749 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2750 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2751 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2752
2753* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2754 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2755 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2756
2757* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2758 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2759 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2760 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2761
2762* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2763 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2764 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2765 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2766 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2767 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2768 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2769 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2770
2771* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2772 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2773 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2774 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2775 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2776 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2777 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2778 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2779 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2780
2781* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2782 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2783 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2784 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2785 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2786 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2787
2788* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2789 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2790 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2791 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2792\f
2793Version 2.19
2794
2795* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2796
fd2f9486
JM
2797 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2798 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2799 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2800 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2801 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2802 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2803 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2804 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2805 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2806 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2807 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2808 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2809 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2810 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2811 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2812 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2813 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2814 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2815
11520a57
CD
2816* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2817 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2818
2fe16229
CD
2819* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2820 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2821 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2822 extension which uses __block.
2823
303e567a
SP
2824* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2825 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2826 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2827 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2828 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2829
141f3a77
SP
2830* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2831 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2832 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2833 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2834 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2835
2836* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2837 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2838 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2839 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2840 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2841
2842* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2843 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2844 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2845
ba0d798c
WN
2846* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2847 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2848 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2849 #15856, #15857).
2850
7cbcdb36
SP
2851* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2852 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2853
82bab04b 2854* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2855 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2856
c5f840fd
MB
2857* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2858
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CD
2859* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2860 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2861
3e181dda 2862* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2863
8a05c252
CL
2864* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2865
6055173a
JM
2866* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2867 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2868 for which the C library was built.
2869
b125d3e5
JM
2870* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2871 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2872 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2873 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2874 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2875 in the following circumstances:
2876
2877 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2878
2879 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2880 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2881
d4f66d37
JM
2882* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2883 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2884
3e181dda
CD
2885* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2886 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2887
ffb89e53
AO
2888* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2889
5d29ccce
SP
2890* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2891 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2892
8b7d57cd 2893* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2894
2895* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2896
fd712ef3 2897* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2898
c688b419
JM
2899* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2900 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2901 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2902 disable some of those declarations.
2903
7011c262 2904* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2905 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2906 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2907
2908* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2909 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2910
2911* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2912 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2913 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2914 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2915 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2916 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2917 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2918 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2919 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2920 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2921 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2922 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2923 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2924\f
2925Version 2.18
2926
2927* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2928
17db6e8d 2929 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2930 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2931 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2932 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2933 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2934 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2935 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2936 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2937 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2938 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2939 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2940 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2941 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2942 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
2943
2944* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2945 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2946 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2947 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2948 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2949 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2950
5b535ac4
AS
2951* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2952 #15078).
2953
1cef1b19
AS
2954* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2955 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2956
55e4107b
SP
2957* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2958 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2959 destructor calls to glibc.
2960
e5c74c63
SP
2961* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2962 output.
2963
2964* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2965 non-x86 architectures.
2966
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2967* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2968
2969* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2970
2971* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2972 Richard Henderson.
2973
2974* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2975
2976* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2977 Richard Henderson.
2978
2979* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2980 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2981
8cfdb7e0
SP
2982* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2983
57267616
TS
2984* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2985 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2986
c204ab28
SP
2987* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2988 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2989
0748546f
PE
2990* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2991 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2992 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2993
61dd6208
SP
2994* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2995 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2996 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
2997
2998* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2999 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3000 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3001 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3002 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3003
3004* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3005 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3006
3007* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3008\f
3009Version 2.17
3010
3011* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3012
80ceeaee 3013 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3014 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3015 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3016 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3017 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3018 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3019 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3020 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3021 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3022 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3023 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3024 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3025 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3026 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3027 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3028
95b4f1b6
SE
3029* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3030
14bc93a9
JL
3031* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3032 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3033
b54eb3cb
JM
3034* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3035 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3036
7e2bd01f
MS
3037* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3038
08f43f9b
AK
3039* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3040 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3041 zEnterprise z196.
3042 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3043
84b3fd84
FW
3044* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3045 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3046 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3047
815e6fa3
GB
3048* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3049 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3050
400726de
MK
3051* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3052 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3053
7aab07e4 3054* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3055 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3056
15d0da8c
WS
3057* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3058 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3059
3cc3ef96
RM
3060* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3061 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3062 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3063 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3064
b54eb3cb
JM
3065* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3066 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3067
85429b1a 3068* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3069 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3070 default.
3071
b54eb3cb
JM
3072* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3073 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3074 information in --help and --version output.
3075
050af9c4
SP
3076* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3077 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3078 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3079
89a3ad0b
AO
3080* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3081 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3082 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3083 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3084 when the mode is enabled.
3085
6e6249d0
RM
3086* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3087 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3088 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3089 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3090 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3091 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3092 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3093
d9286582
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3094* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3095 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3096\f
3097Version 2.16
3098
3099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3100
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3101 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3102 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3103 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3104 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3105 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3106 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3107 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3108 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3109 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3110 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3111 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3112 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3113 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3114 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3115 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3116 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3117 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3118 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3119 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3120 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3121 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3122 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3123 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3124
a086b4d6
L
3125* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3126 configuring glibc with:
3127 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3128 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3129 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3130
380d7e87
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3131* ISO C11 support:
3132
3133 + define static_assert
3134
3135 + do not declare gets
3136
3137 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3138
3139 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3140 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3141 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3142 implementation.
8d44e150 3143
74033a25 3144 + timespec_get added
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3145
3146 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3147
ac097f5c
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3148 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3149
16dd419d
UD
3150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3151
9dc4e1fb 3152* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3153
3154* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3155
3156* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3158
3159* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3160 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3161
3162* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3163 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3164 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3165 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3166 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3167
21708942 3168* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3169 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3170 before 2.6.
83678f76 3171
edb00e4d
RH
3172* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3173 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3174 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3175
83678f76 3176* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3177
3178* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3179 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3180 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3181 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3182 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3183
3184* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3185
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3186* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3187 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3188
3189* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3190
3191* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3192 without a previously built glibc.
3193
3194* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3195 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3196
3197* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3198 now supported for ARM processors.
3199
3200* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3201 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3202 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3203
3204* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3205
3206* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3207 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3208 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3209 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3210
3211* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3212 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3213 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3214 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3215
3216* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3217 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3218 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3219 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3220 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3221
3222* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3223 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3224 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3225 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3226\f
e80fab37 3227Version 2.15
11988f8f 3228
c0244a9d
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3229* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3230
aebae053
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3231 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3232 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3233 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3234 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3235 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3236 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3237 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3238
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3239* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3241
3242* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3243 and support for initgroups lookups.
3244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3245
3246* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3247 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3248
3249* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3250 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3251
fc2ee42a
LD
3252* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3253 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3254 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3255
d42964a0 3256* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3257 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3258
1d3e4b61
UD
3259* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3260 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3261 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3262
c55fbd1e
UD
3263* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3265
3266* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3268
3269* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3270 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3271
3272* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3274
3275* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3276 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3277
3278* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3279 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
3280
3281* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3282
3283* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3285
f0b264f1
AZ
3286* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3287 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3288
6b64057b 3289* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3290\f
dded88cd 3291Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3292
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3293* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3294
553149f6 3295 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3296 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3297 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3298 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3299 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3300 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3301 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3302 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3303 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3304 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3305
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3306* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3307 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3308 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3309 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3310
3311 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3312 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3313 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3315
c6489db3 3316* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3317 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3318
72d1dddb 3319* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3320 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3321
3322* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3323
3324* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3325 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3326
3327* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3328 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3329 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3330 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3331\f
4828935d
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3332Version 2.13
3333
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3334* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3335
c30b7ee2
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3336 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3337 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3338 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3339 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3340 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3341
10b3bedc 3342* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3343
ac2b484c 3344* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3345
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3346* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3347 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3349\f
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3350Version 2.12
3351
d36b9613
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3352* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3353
2e0fb521
DL
3354 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3355 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3356 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3357 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3358 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3359 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3360 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3361 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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3362
3363* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3364
ee1a7fab
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3365* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3366
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3367* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3368
3369* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3370 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3372
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3373* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3374 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3375 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3376 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3377 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3378
d36b9613 3379* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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3380\f
3381Version 2.11
3382
d36b9613
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3383* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3384
3385 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3386 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3387 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3388 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3389 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3390 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3391
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3393 mkostemps64
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3395
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3397 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3398
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3399* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3400 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3401
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3403
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9d36a6c4 3405 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3406 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3408
9d36a6c4 3409 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3411
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3412* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3413 strstr, strcasestr.
3414 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3415
3416* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3417 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3418
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3419* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3420 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3421
3422* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3424
3425* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3426 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3427 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3428 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3429 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3430 necessity is every process again.
3431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3432
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3434 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3435
3436* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3437 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3438
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3439* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3440 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3441 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3442
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3446
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3448
3449 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3450 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3451 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3452 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3453 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3454
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3457
425ce2ed 3458* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3459 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3460
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735be400 3462 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3465 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3467* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3470* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3471 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3472
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3473* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3474 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3475
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3476* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3477 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3478
3479* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3480 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3482
735be400 3483* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3484
84aa52d7 3485* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3487
3488* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3489 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3491
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3492* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3494
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3495* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3496 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3497 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3498 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3499 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3503
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3505
3506 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3507 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3508 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3509 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3510 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3511
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3514
3515* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3516 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3518* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3521* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3522 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3524
3525* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3526 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3530* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3531 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3533* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3534 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3535 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3537
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3538* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3539 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3541* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3542 Sinhala)
48b22986 3543 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3545* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3548
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3550
3551 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3552 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3553 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3554 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3555 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3556 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3557 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3558
e038616f 3559* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3560
77751669 3561* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3563* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3564 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3565
3566* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3567
3568* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3570
3571* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3572 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3573
3574* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3575 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3576 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3577
3578* Faster memset for x86-64.
3579 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3580
3581* Faster memcpy on x86.
3582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3583
3584* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3585 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3587* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3588 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3591
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3592* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3593
3594 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3595 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3596 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3597 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3598 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3599
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3600* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3601 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3602
3603* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3604
3605* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3606 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3607 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3608
3609* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3610 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3611
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3613 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3614
3615* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3616
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3617* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3618 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3619
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3620* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3621 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3622
3623* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3624 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3625
3626* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3627
3628* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3629 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3631* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3632 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3633 yo_NG.
3634
3635+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3636 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3641
3642 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3643 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3644 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3645 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3646 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3647 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3648 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3649 4702, 4858
3650
bce20b9a 3651* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3654
b21fa963 3655* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3659* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3660
3661 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3662 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3663 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3664 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3665 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3666 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3667 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3668 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3669 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3670
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3672 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3675* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3677
871b9158 3678* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3680* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3682* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3683 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3684 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3685 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3687
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3689 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3690 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3692
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3693* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3694 Ulrich Drepper.
3695
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3696* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3697
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3698* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3699 Ulrich Drepper.
3700
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3701* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3702
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3703* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3704 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3707
3708* More overflow detection functions.
3709
3710* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3711 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3713 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3714 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3715 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3716 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3717 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3718 by Masahide Washizawa.
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3721 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3723* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3724 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3725 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3726 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3728* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3729 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3730
3731* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3732
3733* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3734 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3735 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3736
3737* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3738 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3739
3740* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3741 for compatibility with some other systems.
3742
3743* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3746
3747* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3748
3749 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3750 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3751 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3752 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3753 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3754 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3755
3756 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3757
3758* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3759
3760* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3763
3764* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3765
3766 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3767 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3768 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3769 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3770
3771 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3774
3775* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3778* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3779 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3781
3782* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3783 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3784
0325dd20 3785* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3786 efficiently.
3787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3788
3789* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3790 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3791 handling data.
3792
3793* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3794 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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3797* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3799
3800* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3801 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3802 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3803 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3804
3805* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3806 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3807 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3809
3810* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3811 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3812 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3813 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3814 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3817
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3819 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3820
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3821* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3822 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3823
69be6aaf 3824* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3825 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3826
3827* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3828 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3829
3830* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3831 by Roland McGrath.
3832
c5af724c 3833* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3834 and Ulrich Drepper.
3835
3836* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3837 RFC 3484.
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3839Version 2.3.2
3840
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3841* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3842 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3843 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3844 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3845 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3846 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3847 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3848 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3849 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3850
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3851* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3852 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3853 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3854
3855* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3856
3857* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3858 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3859
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3860* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3861 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3862
52a16e58 3863* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3864
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3865* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3866 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3867
3868* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3869 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3870 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3871 of weak definition in ld.so.
3872
3873* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3874 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3875
3876* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3877 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 3879Version 2.3
37fb1084 3880
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3881* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3882 charsets.
3883
3884* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3885 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3886
bb0ec5bd 3887* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3888 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3889
3890* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3891 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3892
bb0ec5bd 3893* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3894 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3895 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3896
3897* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3898 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3899
bb0ec5bd 3900* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3901 implementation of regex.
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3902
3903* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3904 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3905
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3906* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3907 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3908
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3909* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3910 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3911 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3912
3913* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3914 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3915
3916* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3917 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3918 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3919
3920* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3921 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3922
3923* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3924 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3925 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3926
3927* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3929Version 2.2.6
3930
3931* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3932 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3933
3934* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3935 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3937Version 2.2.5
3938
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3939* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3940 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3941
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3942* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3943 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3944
ad2e4f18 3945* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3946
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3947* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3948
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3949* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3950 as well.
3951
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3952* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3953 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3954
3955* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3957Version 2.2.4
3958
2995f70e 3959* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3960 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3961
3962* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3963 support Unicode 3.1.
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3964
3965* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3966 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3967
69d5f925 3968* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3969
69d5f925 3970* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3971 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3972 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3973
3974* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3975 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3976
3977* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3978 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3979
3980* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3982Version 2.2.3
3983
1746f2b0 3984* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3985 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3986 in float, double, and long double format.
3987
f128331c 3988* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3989 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3990 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 3991
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3992* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3993 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3994 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3995 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3996
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3997* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3998 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3999 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4000
4001* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4002 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4003
4004* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4005 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4006
4007* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4008 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4009 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4010
4011* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4012 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4013
4014* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4015 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4016
4017* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4019Version 2.2.2
4020
464d97ec 4021* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4022 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4023 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4024 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4025 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4026 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4027 other headers.
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4028
4029* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4030 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4031
4032* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4033 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4034 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4035 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4036
4037* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4038 locales. While
4039
4040 locale -a
4041
4042 only lists the names of the supported locales
4043
4044 locale -a --verbose
4045
4046 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4047 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4049Version 2.2.1
4050
4051* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4052 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4053 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4054 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4055 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4056
4057 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4058
4059 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4060
4061 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4062
4063* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4064 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4065 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4066
4067* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4068 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4069
4070* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4071 changed from the default "C" locale.
4072
4073* The usual bug fixes.
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4075Version 2.2
4076
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4077* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4078 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4079 is in progress.
4080
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4081* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4082
793bd4d9 4083* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4084
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4085 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4086 obviously requires a database library being available.
4087
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4088* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4089
abbffdf9 4090* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4091
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4092* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4093 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4094
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4095* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4096
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4097* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4098 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4099 and Mark Kettenis.
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4100
4101 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4102 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4103 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4104
a00c3ca9 4105 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4106 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4107
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4108* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4109 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4110 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4111
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4112* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4113 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4114 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4116
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4117 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4118 structures for the wide character tables.
4119
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4120* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4121
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4122* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4123
4124* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4125
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4126* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4127 and Yutaka Niibe.
4128
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4129* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4130
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4131* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4132
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4133* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4134
4135* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4136
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4137* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4138
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4139* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4140 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4141 implemented for Linux.
4142
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4143* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4144 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4145 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4146 versions.
4147
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4148* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4149 Masahide Washizawa.
4150
8f3f1e09 4151* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4152\f
4153Version 2.1.3
4154
4155* bug fixes
4156
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4157\f
4158Version 2.1.2
4159
4160* bug fixes
4161
28f540f4 4162\f
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4163Version 2.1.1
4164
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4165* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4166
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4167* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4168
407d26b7 4169* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4170
4171* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4172
407d26b7 4173* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4174
407d26b7 4175* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4176
4177* Update timezone data files.
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4179* lots of charmaps corrections
4180
4181* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4182
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4184Version 2.1
4185
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4186* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4187 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4188 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4189 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4190 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4191 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4192
c84142e8 4193* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4194 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4195
1fb05e3d 4196* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4197 symbol level.
4198
4199* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4200 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4201
cbdee279 4202* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4203
4204* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4205 numbers.
377a515b 4206
cbdee279 4207* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4208
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4209* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4210 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4211
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4212* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4213 library.
4214
e61abf83 4215* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4216 functions from ISO C 9X.
4217
4218* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4219 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4220
a5a0310d 4221* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4222
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4223* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4224
4225* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4226
440d13e2 4227* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4228
4229* Optimized string functions have been added.
4230
4231* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4232
4233* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4234
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4235* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4236 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4237
4238 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4239 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4240
0dee6738 4241 user system wall
48244d09 4242
0dee6738 4243 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4244
0dee6738 4245 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4246
0dee6738 4247 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4249 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4250
4251 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4252
4253 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 4254
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4255 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4256 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4257 horribly slow.
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4259 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4260 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4261
4262* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4263
4264* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4265
4266* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4267 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4268
4269* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4270
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4271* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4272 Bambrough.
4273
4274* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4275 latest draft standards.
4276
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4277* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4278
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4279* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4280~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4282alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4283argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4284argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4285argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4286argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4287argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4288argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4289argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4290argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4291argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4292argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4293authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4294authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4295authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4296backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4297backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4298backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4299cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4300cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4301cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4302cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4303cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4304cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4305capget NEW: kernel
4306capset NEW: kernel
4307carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4308cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4309cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4310casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4311casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4312casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4313casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4314casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4315casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4316catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4317catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4318catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4319catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4320catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4321catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4322cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4323ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4324ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4325ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4326ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4327ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4328ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4329cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4330cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4331cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4332cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4333cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4334cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4335clearerr_locked REMOVED
4336clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4337clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4338clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4339clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4340clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4341clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4342clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4343conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4344conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4345conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4346cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4347cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4348cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4349cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4350cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4351cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4352creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4353crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4354creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4355creat64 NEW: LFS
4356csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4357csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4358csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4359csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4360csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4361csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4362csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4363csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4364csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4365ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4366ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4367ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4368ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4369ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4370ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4372ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4373endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4375exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4376exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4377exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4378exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4379exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4380fattach NEW: STREAMS
4381fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4382fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4383fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4384fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4385feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4386fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4387fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4388fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4389feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4390feof_locked REMOVED
4391feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4392ferror_locked REMOVED
4393fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4394fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4395fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4396fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4397feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4398fflush_locked REMOVED
4399ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4400ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4401fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4402fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4403fileno_locked REMOVED
4404fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4405fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4406fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4407fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4408fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4409fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4410fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4411fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4412fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4413fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4415fputc_locked REMOVED
4416fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4417fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4418freopen64 NEW: LFS
4419fseeko NEW: Unix98
4420fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4421fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4422fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4423fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4424ftello NEW: Unix98
4425ftello64 NEW: LFS
4426ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4427ftw64 NEW: LFS
4428fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4429gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4430gamma_r REMOVED
4431gammaf_r REMOVED
4432gammal_r REMOVED
4433getchar_locked REMOVED
4434getdate NEW: Unix98
4435getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4436getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4437getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4438getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4441getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4442getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4444getutxid NEW: Unix98
4445getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4447globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4448gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4449gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4450grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4451host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4452iconv NEW: iconv
4453iconv_close NEW: iconv
4454iconv_open NEW: iconv
4455if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4456if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4457if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4458if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4459in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4460in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4461inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4462isastream NEW: STREAMS
4463iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4464key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4465key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4466key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4467key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4468key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4469key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4470key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4471key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4472key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4474llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4475llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4476llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4477llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4478llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4479log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4480log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4481log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4482lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4483lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4484lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4485lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4486lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4487lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4488lseek64 NEW: LFS
4489makecontext NEW: Unix98
4490mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4491mmap64 NEW: LFS
4492moncontrol REMOVED
4493modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4494nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4495nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4496nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4497nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4498nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4499nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4501netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4503nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4504nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4506nftw64 NEW: LFS
4507open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4508passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4510pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4511pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4512pread NEW: Unix98
4513pread64 NEW: LFS
4514printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4515printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4516profil_counter REMOVED
4517pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4518pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4519ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4520ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4521putc_locked REMOVED
4522putchar_locked REMOVED
4523putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4524putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4525putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4526pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4528pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4529readdir64 NEW: LFS
4530readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4531remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4532remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4533remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4534round NEW: ISO C 9x
4535roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4536roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4537rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4538scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4539scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4540scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4541scandir64 NEW: LFS
4542sendfile NEW: kernel
4543setcontext NEW: Unix98
4544setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4545setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4547sigignore NEW: Unix98
4548sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4549sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4550sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4551sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4552sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4553sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4554sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4555sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4556statfs64 NEW: LFS
4557statvfs NEW: Unix98
4558statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4559strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4561strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4562strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4563svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4564svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4565svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4566swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4567tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4568tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4569tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4570tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4571tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4572tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4573trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4574truncate64 NEW: LFS
4575truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4576truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4577umount2 NEW: kernel
4578unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4579updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4580user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4581utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4582versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4583versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4584waitid NEW: Unix98
4585wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4586wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4587wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4588wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4589wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4590wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4591wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4592wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4593wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4594wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4595write_profiling REMOVED
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4597xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4598xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4599xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4600xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4601xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4602xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4603xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4604xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4605xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4606xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4607xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4608xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4609xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 4611~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4613Version 2.0.6
4614
4615* more bug fixes
4616
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4618Version 2.0.5
4619
4620* more bug fixes
4621
4622* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4623
4624* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4625
4626* rewrite of cbrt function
4627
4628* update of timezone data
4629\f
4630Version 2.0.4
4631
4632* more bug fixes
4633\f
4634Version 2.0.3
4635
4636* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4637\f
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4638Version 2.0.2
4639
4640* more bug fixes
4641
4642* add atoll function
4643
4644* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4645
4646* fix math functions
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4647\f
4648Version 2.0.1
4649
4650* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4651
4652* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4653
4654* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4655 the ELF dynamic loader.
4656
4657* support for parallel builds is improved
4658\f
40a4b79f 4659Version 2.0
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4661* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4662 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4663 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4664
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4665* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4666 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4667 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4668 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4669 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4670 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4671 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4672 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4673 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4674 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4675 files in the ELF format.
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4676
4677* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4678 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4679
4680* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4681 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4682 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4683 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4684 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4685 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4686 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4687 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4688 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4689 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4690 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4692* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4693 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4694 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4695 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4696 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4697
f7eac6eb 4698* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4699 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4700 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4701 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4702 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4703
4704* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4706* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4707 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4708 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4709 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4710 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4711 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4712 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4713 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4714 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4715
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4716* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4717 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4718 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4719
4720* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4721 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4722 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4723
4724* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4725 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4726 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4727 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4728
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4729* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4730 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4731 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4732
4733* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4734 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4735 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4736
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4737* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4738 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4739
f7eac6eb 4740* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4741 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4742 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4743 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4744
4745* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4746 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4747 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4748
71733723 4749* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4750 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4751 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4752 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4753 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4754 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4755 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4756 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4757
4758* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4759 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4760 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4761 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4762 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4763 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4764 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4765
4766* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4767 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4768 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4769 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4770 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4771 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4772
4773* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4774 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4775
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4776* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4777 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4778 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4780* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4781
4782* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4783 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4784 their use is discouraged.
4785
4786* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4787 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4789* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4790 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4791
4792* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4793 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4794
4795* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4796 see <dirent.h>.
4797
4798* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4799 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4800 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4801 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4802 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4803
4804* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4805 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4806 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4807 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4808
4809* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4810 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4811
4812* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4813 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4814 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4815 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4816 number generator.
4817
4818* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4819 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4820
4821* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4822 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4823
71733723 4824* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4825 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4826 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4827 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4829* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4830
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4831* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4832 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4833 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4834
4835* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4836 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4838* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4839 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4840 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4841 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4842
4843* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4844 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4845 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4846 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4847 programs already written to use it.)
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4848
4849* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4850 constants.
4851
4852* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4853 with 4.4 BSD.
4854
4855* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4856 a given effective group ID.
4857
4858* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4859 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4860 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4861 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4862
4863* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4864 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4865 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4866 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4867 doing the same thing.
4868
4869* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4870 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4871
4872* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4873 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4874
4875* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4876
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4877* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4878 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4879 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4880 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4881 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4882
4883* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4884 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4885
4886* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4887 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4888 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4889 function.
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4890
4891* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4892
4893* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4894 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4895 strings.
4896
4897* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4898 and writing the utmp file.
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4899
4900* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4901 Thorsten Kukuk.
4902
4903* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4904 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4905 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4906
4907* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4908 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4909
4910* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4911 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4912 specification.
4913
4914* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4915 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4916 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4917 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4918
4919* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4920 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4921 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4922
4923* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4924 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4925 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4926 expression matcher.
4927
4928* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4929 functionality.
4930
4931* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4932 by Ulrich Drepper.
4933
4934* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4935
4936* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4937 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4938 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4940Version 1.09
4941
4942* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4943
4944* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4945 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4946
4947* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4948 want to put themselves in the background.
4949
4950* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4951 run without an operating system.
4952
4953* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4954 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4955
4956* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4957 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4958
4959* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4960
4961* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4962 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4963 have YP (aka NIS).
4964
4965* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4966 conventions.
4967
4968* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4969 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4970\f
4971Version 1.08
4972
4973* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4974 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4975 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4976
4977* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4978 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4979
4980* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4981 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4982
4983* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4984
4985* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4986
4987* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4988 compatibility.
4989
4990* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4991 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4992 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4993
4994* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4995
4996* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4997 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4998 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4999
5000* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5001 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5002 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5003 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5004 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5005 on a block).
5006
5007* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5008 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5009 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5010 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5011 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5012 cross-compiler.
5013
5014* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5015 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5016\f
5017Version 1.07
5018
5019* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5020 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5021
5022* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5023 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5024 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5025
5026* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5027 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5028 address of the last character written.
5029
5030* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5031 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5032
5033* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5034 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5035
5036* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5037 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5038 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5039 you dereference this pointer.
5040
5041* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5042 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5043
5044* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5045 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5046 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5047 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5048
5049* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5050 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5051 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5052 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5053\f
5054Version 1.06
5055
5056* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5057 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5058 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5059 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5060 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5061
5062* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5063
5064* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5065
5066* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5067 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5068
5069* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5070 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5071
5072* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5073 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5074
5075* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5076 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5077 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5078 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5079 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5080
5081* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5082 to the error code in `errno'.
5083
5084* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5085 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5086 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5087 malloc'd string.
5088
5089* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5090 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5091 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5092
5093* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5094 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5096Version 1.05
5097
5098* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5099 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5100 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5101
5102* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5103 characters.
5104
5105* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5106 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5107
5108* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5109\f
5110Version 1.04
5111
5112* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5113 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5114 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5115 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5116
5117* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5118 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5119 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5120
5121* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5122 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5123
5124* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5125 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5126 made itself into a shared library.
5127
5128* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5129 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5130
5131* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5132 with limited length.
5133
5134* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5135
5136* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5137
5138* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5139
5140* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5141 function for traversing a directory tree.
5142
5143* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5144 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5145 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5146 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5147
5148* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5149 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5150
5151* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5152
5153* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5154 things to your strings.
5155
5156* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5157
5158* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5159 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5160 supporting those systems.
5161
5162* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5163 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5164 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5165 configuration files.
5166
5167* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5168 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5169
5170* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5172 in <strings.h>.)
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5173
5174* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5175 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5176 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5177 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5178 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5179 required storage is not available.
5180
5181* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5182 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5183
5184* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5185 latest files released from Berkeley.
5186\f
5187----------------------------------------------------------------------
5188Copyright information:
5189
09533208 5190Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5191
5192 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5193 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5194 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5195 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5196
5197 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5198 of this document, or of portions of it,
5199 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5200 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5201\f
5202Local variables:
5203version-control: never
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