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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.26.1
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10Security related changes:
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12 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
13 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
14 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
15 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
16 script.)
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18 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
19 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
20 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
21 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
22
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23The following bugs are resolved with this release:
24
6043d77a 25 [16750] ldd: Never run file directly.
82b16632 26 [17956] crypt: Use NSPR header files in addition to NSS header files
2aa1a7a8 27 [21242] assert: Suppress pedantic warning caused by statement expression
f82a6fc2 28 [21265] x86-64: Use fxsave/xsave/xsavec in _dl_runtime_resolve
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29 [21780] posix: Set p{read,write}v2 to return ENOTSUP
30 [21871] x86-64: Use _dl_runtime_resolve_opt only with AVX512F
dc258ce6 31 [21885] getaddrinfo: Release resolver context on error in gethosts
a71a3374 32 [21915] getaddrinfo: incorrect result handling for NSS service modules
79663315 33 [21922] getaddrinfo with AF_INET(6) returns EAI_NONAME, not EAI_NODATA
c2921b17 34 [21930] Do not use __builtin_types_compatible_p in C++ mode
30243468 35 [21932] Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r implementation
3aeab55e 36 [21941] powerpc: Restrict xssqrtqp operands to Vector Registers
fb9a781e 37 [21972] assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
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38 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
39 occur with -O3
b1b8d8aa 40 [21987] Fix sparc32 bits/long-double.h
fdf58ebc 41 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
05155f07 42 [22078] nss_files performance issue in hosts multi mode
b2c78ae6 43 [22093] x86: Add x86_64 to x86-64 HWCAP
905a6129 44 [22095] resolv: Fix memory leak with OOM during resolv.conf parsing
27233446 45 [22096] resolv: __resolv_conf_attach must not free passed conf object
d5c6dea2 46 [22111] malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
d37c951f 47 [22146] Let fpclassify use the builtin when optimizing for size in C++ mode
fdf58ebc 48 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3b10c5d2 49 [22235] Add C++ versions of iscanonical for ldbl-96 and ldbl-128ibm
f8279a4b 50 [22296] Let signbit use the builtin in C++ mode with gcc < 6.x
4b692dff 51 [22299] x86-64: Don't set GLRO(dl_platform) to NULL
b1b8d8aa 52 [22320] glob: Fix one-byte overflow (CVE-2017-15670)
2e78ea7a 53 [22321] sysconf: Fix missing definition of UIO_MAXIOV on Linux
04acd597 54 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
305f4f05 55 [22325] glibc: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
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57Version 2.26
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59Major new features:
60
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61* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
62 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
63 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
64 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
65 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
66 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
67 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
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69* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
70 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 71 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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72 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
73 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
74 are rendered with pango, see for example:
75 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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77* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
78 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
79 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 80
2b2ccd0c 81* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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83 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
84 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
85 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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87 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
88 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
89 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
90 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
91 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 92
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93 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
94 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
95 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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97* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
98 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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100* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
101 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
102 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
103 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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105* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
106 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
107 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
108 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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110* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
111 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
112 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
113 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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115* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
116 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
117 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 118
2b2ccd0c 119* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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120 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
121 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
122 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 124 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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125 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
126 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
127 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
128 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
129
130 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
131 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
132 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
133 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
134 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
135 interfaces should be used instead.
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137Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
138
139* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
140 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
141 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
142 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
143 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
144 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
145 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
146 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
147
148* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
149 removed.
150
151* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 152 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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153 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
154 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
155
156* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
157 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
158 default.
159
160 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
161 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
162 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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163 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
164 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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166 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
167 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
168 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
169 name service modules, to be built and installed.
170
171* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
172 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
173 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
174 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
175
176* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
177 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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179* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
180 exported by accident.
181
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182* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
183 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
184 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
185
186* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
187 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
188 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
189 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
190
191* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
192
193* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
194
195* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
196 free instead.
197
198* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
199 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
200
201* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
202 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
203
204* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
205 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
206 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
207 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
208 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
209 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
210 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
211 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
212
213* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
214 synced with the kernel:
215
216 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
217 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
218
219 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
220 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
221 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
222
223 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
224 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
225
226Changes to build and runtime requirements:
227
228* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
229 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
230 x86-32 and x86-64.)
231
7e368000 232* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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234* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
235 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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237 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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238 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
239 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
240 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 241 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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243Security related changes:
244
e14a2772 245* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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246 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
247
248* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
249 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
250
251* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
252 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
253 (CVE-2010-3192).
254
255* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
256 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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258The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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260 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
261 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
262 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
263 fields
264 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
265 (CVE-2010-3192)
266 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
267 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
268 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
269 ld.bfd is available
270 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
271 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
272 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
273 x86 and other generic code
274 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
275 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
276 incorrect
277 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
278 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
279 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
280 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
281 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
282 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
283 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
284 resolver
285 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
286 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
287 order of 0D36 and 0D37
288 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
289 chillu characters
290 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
291 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
292 receiving data
293 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
294 whitespace
295 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
296 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
297 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
298 for Peru
299 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
300 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
301 failures consistently
302 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
303 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
304 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
305 frame-pointer on i386
306 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
307 register
308 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
309 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
310 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
311 generic c code is used
312 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
313 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
314 around 4000
315 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
316 (CVE-2017-12133)
317 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
318 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
319 with -lieee
320 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
321 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
322 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
323 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
324 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
325 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
326 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
327 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
328 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
329 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
330 remove()
331 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
332 checked for errors.
333 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
334 new posix_spawn implementation
335 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
336 leads to lower CPU frequency
337 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
338 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
339 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
340 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
341 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
342 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
343 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
344 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
345 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
346 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
347 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
348 not support gethostbyname4_r
349 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
350 switching
351 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
352 arenas
353 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
354 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
355 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
356 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
357 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
358 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
359 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
360 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
361 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
362 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
363 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
364 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
365 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
366 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
367 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
368 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
369 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
370 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
371 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
372 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
373 retry value
374 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
375 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
376 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
377 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
378 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
379 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
380 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
381 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
382 [21537] libc:
383 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
384 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
385 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
386 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
387 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
388 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
389 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
390 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
391 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
392 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
393 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
394 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
395 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
396 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
397 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
398 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
399 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
400 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
401 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
402 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
403 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
404 issue on x86-64
405 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
406 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
407 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
408 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
409 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
410 construction
411 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
412 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
413 between_2_3
414 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
415 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
416 conditions
417 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
418 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
419 Hindi Locale
420 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
421 posix/sched_cpucount.c
422 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
423 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
424 locale
425 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
426 leading to relocation crash
427 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
428 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
429 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
430 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
431 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
432 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
433 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
434 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
435 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
436 locale
437 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
438 locale
439 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
440 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
441 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
442 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
443 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
444 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
445 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
446 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
447 strings
448 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
449 protector=all
450 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
451 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
452 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
453 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
454 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
455 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
456 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
457 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
458 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
459 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
460 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
461 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
462 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
463 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
464 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
465 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
466 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
467 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
468 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
469 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
470 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
471 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
472 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
473 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
474 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
475 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
476 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
477 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
478 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
479 with unicode 9.0
480 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
481 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
482 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
483 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
484 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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488
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489* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
490 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
491 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
492 Library.
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494* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
495 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 496 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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497 the GNU C Library.
498
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499* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
500 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
501 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
502 the GNU C Library.
503
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504* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
505 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
506 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
507 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
508 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
509 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
510 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
511 will not.
512
513 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
514 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
515 many years.
516
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518 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
519 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
520
521 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
522 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
523 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
524 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
525 problem.
526
ec94343f 527* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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528 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
529 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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532 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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534 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
535 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
536 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
537 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
538 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
539 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
540 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
541 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
542 WINT_WIDTH.
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544* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
545
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546 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
547
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548 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
549 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
550 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 551
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552 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
553 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
554
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555 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
556 fminmagf, fminmagl.
557
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558 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
559
29cb9293 560 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 561
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562 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
563 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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566
eb3c12c7 567 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 568 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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570* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
571 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
572
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574 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
575 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
576
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577* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
578 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
579 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
580 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
581 effects of the memory clear).
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584 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
585 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
586 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
587
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588* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
589 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
590 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
591 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
592 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
593 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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596 have been added.
597
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598* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
599 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
600 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
601 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
602 as large as several megabytes.
603
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604* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
605 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
606 been removed.
607
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608* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
609 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
610 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
611 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
612 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
613 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
614 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
615
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616* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
617 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
618 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
619 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
620
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622 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
623 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
624 Internet.
625
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626* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
627 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
628 They were already unimplemented.
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630* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
631 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
632 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
633 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
634
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635* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
636 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
637 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
638 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
639 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
640
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641* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
642 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
643 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
644 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
645 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
646
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647* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
648 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
649 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
650 did not reflect that.
651
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653 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
654 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
655 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
656 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
657 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
658 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
659 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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662 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
663 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
664 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
665
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667 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
668 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
669 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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672 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
673 guarantees.
674
675* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
676 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
677 make state changes.
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680
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682 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
683 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
684 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
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688 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
689 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
690 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
691 (CVE-2015-5180)
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695 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
696 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
697 protector-all
698 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
699 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
700 before it started waiting
701 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
702 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
703 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
704 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
705 wrong type
706 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
707 library linked with pthread
708 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
709 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
710 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
711 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
712 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
713 after being __libc_memalign()'d
714 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
715 when it shouldnt
716 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
717 not
718 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
719 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
720 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
721 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
722 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
723 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
724 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
725 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
726 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
727 termination
728 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
729 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
730 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
731 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
732 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
733 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
734 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
735 causes a segmentation fault
736 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
737 linking
738 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
739 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
740 uninitialized GOT
741 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
742 versions
743 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
744 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
745 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
746 is always true.
747 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
748 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
749 modes
750 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
751 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
752 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
753 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
754 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
755 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
756 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
757 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
758 libpthread.a
759 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
760 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
761 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
762 _res_hconf
763 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
764 information.
765 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
766 penalty
767 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
768 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
769 cause transition penalty
770 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
771 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
772 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
773 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
774 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
775 mcount.oS)
776 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
777 Checking
778 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
779 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
780 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
781 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
782 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
783 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
784 multi-arch
785 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
786 (RES_USEBSTRING)
787 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
788 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
789 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
790 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
791 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
792 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
793 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
794 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
795 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
796 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
797 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
798 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
799 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
800 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
801 glibc
802 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
803 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
804 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
805 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
806 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
807 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
808 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
809 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
810 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
811 U+20AC), not same as GBK
812 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
813 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
814 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
815 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
816 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
817 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
818 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
819 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
820 RES_USE_INET6
821 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
822 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
823 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
824 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
825 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
826 wrong condition
827 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
828 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
829 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
830 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
831 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
832 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
833 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
834 clang
835 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
836 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
837 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
838 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
839 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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844 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
845 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
846 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
847 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
848 architectures.
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851 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
852 been included in previous releases.
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855 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
856
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858 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
859 instead of “union wait”.
860
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862 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
863 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
864 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
865 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
866 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
867 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
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870 API.
871
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873 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
874 drop it.
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877 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
878 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
879 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
880 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
881 extensions.
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885* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
886 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
887 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
888
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889* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
890 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
891 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
892 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 893
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894* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
895 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
896 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
897
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898* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
899 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
900 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
901
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902* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
903 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
904 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
905 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
906
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907The following bugs are resolved with this release:
908
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909 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
910 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
911 of MS-DOS.
912 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
913 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
914 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
915 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
916 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
917 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
918 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
919 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
920 CLDR data
921 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
922 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
923 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
924 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
925 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
926 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
927 romanisation
928 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
929 and +/-
930 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
931 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
932 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
933 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
934 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
935 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
936 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
937 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
938 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
939 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
940 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
941 all locales
942 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
943 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
944 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
945 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
946 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
947 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
948 execute
949 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
950 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
951 -Wsystem-headers
952 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
953 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
954 Romanian locale data
955 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
956 symbol
957 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
958 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
959 language
960 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
961 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
962 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
963 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
964 machine
965 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
966 description
967 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
968 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
969 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
970 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
971 when using RTLD_NEXT
972 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
973 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
974 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
975 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
976 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
977 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
978 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
979 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
980 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
981 Excavator core
982 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
983 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
984 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
985 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
986 double range
987 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
988 part zero incorrect
989 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
990 equality tests
991 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
992 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
993 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
994 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
995 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
996 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
997 glibc-2.22
998 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
999 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1000 'tst-numeric.c'
1001 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1002 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1003 low part
1004 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1005 result
1006 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1007 unaligned stack
1008 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1009 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1010 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1011 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1012 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1013 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1014 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1015 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1016 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1017 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1018 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1019 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1020 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1021 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1022 modes
1023 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1024 server addresses
1025 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1026 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1027 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1028 response to getaddrinfo
1029 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1030 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1031 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1032 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1033 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1034 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1035 sometimes incorrect
1036 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1037 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1038 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1039 record types
1040 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1041 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1042 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1043 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1044 (CVE-2016-3075)
1045 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1046 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1047 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1048 resolving symbols
1049 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1050 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1051 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1052 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1053 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1054 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1055 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1056 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1057 gethosts
1058 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1059 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1060 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1061 (CVE-2016-3706)
1062 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1063 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1064 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1065 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1066 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1067 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1068 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1069 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1070 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1071 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1072 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1073 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1074 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1075 executable
1076 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1077 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1078 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1079 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1080 XPG3
1081 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1082 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1083 (CVE-2016-4429)
1084 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1085 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1086 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1087 AS not supporting AVX512
1088 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1089 sNaN argument
1090 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1091 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1092 argument
1093 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1094 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1095 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1096 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1097 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1098 eax=0x80000001
1099 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1100 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1101 subnormals
1102 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1103 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1104 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1105 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1106 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1107 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1108 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1109 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1110 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1111 input
1112 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1113 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1114 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1115 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1116 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1117 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1118 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1119 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1120 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1121 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1122 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1123 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1124 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1125 double rounding
1126 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1127 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1128 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1129 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1130 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1131 (Only arm/linux)
1132 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1133 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1134 fallbacks
1135 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1136 "invalid" exceptions
1137 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1138 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1139 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1140 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1141 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1142 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1143 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1144 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1145 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1147Version 2.23
1148
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1149* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1150 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1151 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1152 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1153 89, 16061, and 18568.
1154
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1155* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1156 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1157 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1158 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1159 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1160 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1161 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1162
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1163* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1164 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1165 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1166
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1167* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1168 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1169 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1170 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1171 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1172 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1173 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1174
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1175* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1176 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1177 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1178 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1179 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1180 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1181 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1182 Ericsson.)
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1184* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1185 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1186 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1187 independent of the GNU C Library.
1188
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1189* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1190 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1192* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1193 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1194 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1195 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1196 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1197 Linux kernel.
1198
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1199* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1200 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1202* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1203 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1204 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1205 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1206 defining their own copy.
1207
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1208* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1209 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1210 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1212Security related changes:
1213
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1214* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1215 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1216
1217* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1218 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1219 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1220 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1221 (CVE-2015-8777)
1222
1223* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1224 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1225
1226* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1227 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1228
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1229* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1230 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1231 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1233* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1234 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1235 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1236 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1237 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1238 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1239 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1240 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1241 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1242 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1243 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1244 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1245 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1246
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1249 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1250 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1251 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1252 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1253 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1254 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1255 use `mkstemp'
1256 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1257 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1258 overflow/underflow errors
1259 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1260 overflow/underflow
1261 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1262 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1263 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1264 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1265 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1266 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1267 are not contiguous
1268 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1269 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1270 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1271 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1272 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1273 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1274 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1275 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1276 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1277 all exceptions
1278 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1279 arguments
1280 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1281 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1282 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1283 should include
1284 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1285 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1286 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1287 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1288 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1289 GNU/Linux
1290 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1291 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1292 arguments
1293 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1294 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1295 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1296 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1297 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1298 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1299 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1300 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1301 rounding results
1302 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1303 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1304 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1305 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1306 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1307 fails
1308 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1309 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1310 block boundary
1311 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1312 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1313 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1314 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1315 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1316 4.7?
1317 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1318 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1319 (related to lock elision)
1320 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1321 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1322 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1323 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1324 (CVE-2015-8779)
1325 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1326 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1327 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1328 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1329 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1330 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1331 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1332 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1333 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1334 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1335 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1336 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1337 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1338 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1339 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1340 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1341 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1342 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1343 contains a vector instruction exception.
1344 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1345 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1346 locales
1347 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1348 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1349 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1350 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1351 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1352 missing break ?
1353 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1354 32bit processes
1355 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1356 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1357 infinity
1358 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1359 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1360 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1361 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1362 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1363 be forced unloaded
1364 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1365 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1366 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1367 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1368 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1369 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1370 statically too large
1371 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1372 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1373 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1374 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1375 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1376 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1377 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1378 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1379 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1380 FUTEX_SHARED
1381 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1382 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1383 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1384 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1385 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1386 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1387 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1388 opendir()
1389 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1390 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1391 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1392 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1393 signgam
1394 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1395 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1396 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1397 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1398 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1399 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1400 dependencies
1401 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1402 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1403 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1404 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1405 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1406 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1407 (CVE-2015-8776)
1408 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1409 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1410 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1411 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1412 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1413 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1414 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1415 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1416 contention
1417 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1418 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1419 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1420 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1421 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1422 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1423 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1424 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1425 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1426 rounding modes
1427 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1428 ILP32
1429 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1430 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1431 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1432 threshold
1433 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1434 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1435 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1436 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1437 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1438 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1439 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1440 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1441 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1442 pthread_setaffinity_np
1443 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1444 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1445 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1446 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1447 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1448 prelink
1449 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1450 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1451 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1452 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1453 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1454 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1455 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1456 bits/mathcalls.h
1457 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1458 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1459 for C99-based standards
1460 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1461 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1462 math-only
1463 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1464 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1465 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1466 disabled
1467 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1468 "inexact" exceptions
1469 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1470 arguments
1471 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1472 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1473 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1474 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1475 rules
1476 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1477 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1478 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1479 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1480 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1481 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1482 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1483 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1484 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1485 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1486 from 32bit
1487 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1488 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1489 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1490 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1491 subnormals
1492 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1493 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1494 error on 32-bit architectures
1495 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1496 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1497 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1498 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1499 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1500 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1501 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1502 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1503 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1504 -Os
1505 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1506 CPU's.
1507 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1508 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1509 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1510 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1511 architectures
1512 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1514Version 2.22
1515
1516* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1517
3df5cd98 1518 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1519 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1520 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1521 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1522 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1523 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1524 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1525 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1526 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1527 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1528 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1529 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1530 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1531 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1532 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1533 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1534 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1535 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1536 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1537 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 1538
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1539* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1540 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1541
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1542* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1543 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1544 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1545 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1546 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1547 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 1548
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FW
1549* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1550 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1551 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1552 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1553 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1554
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1555* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1556 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1557 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1558
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1559* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1560 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1561 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1562 17998.
1563
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1564* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1565 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1566 condition in some applications.
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AS
1567
1568* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1569 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1570 pow, powf.
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1571 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1572 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1573 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1574 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1575 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1576
1577* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1578 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1579 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1580 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1581
1582* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1583 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1584 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1585
1586* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1587 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1588
1589* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1590 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1591 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1592
a03ba363 1593 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1594 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1595 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1597Version 2.21
1598
1599* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1600
042e1521 1601 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1602 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1603 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1604 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1605 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1606 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1607 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1608 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1609 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1610 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1611 17892.
1612
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1613* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1614 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1615 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1616 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1617 intended.
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1618
1619* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1620 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1621 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1622 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1623 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1624 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1626* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1627
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1628* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1629 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1630 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1632* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1633 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1634 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1635 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1636 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1637 effects being visible outside transactions.
1638
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1639* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1640 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1642* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1643
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1644* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1645 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1646 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1647 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1648 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 1649
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1650* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1651 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1652
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1653* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1654 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1655 format.
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1657* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1658 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1659 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1660
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1661* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1662 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1663
0d560bbf 1664* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1665
1666* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1667 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1668 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1669 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1670
1671* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1672 with newer versions of bison.
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1673
1674* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1675 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1676 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1677 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1678 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1679 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1680 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1681 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1682 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1683 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1684 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1685 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1686 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1687
1688 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1689 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1690 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1691 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1692 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1694Version 2.20
1695
1696* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1697
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1698 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1699 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1700 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1701 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1702 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1703 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1704 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1705 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1706 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1707 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1708 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1709 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1710 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1711 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1712 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1713
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1714* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1715 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1716 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1717 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1718 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1719 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1720 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1721 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1722 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1723 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1724
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1725* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1726 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1727 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1728 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1729 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1730
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1731* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1732
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1733* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1734 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1735
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1736* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1737 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1738 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1739 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1740 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1741 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1742
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1743* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1744 from ports.
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1745
1746* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1747 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1748 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1749 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1750 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1751 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1752 test macros defined.
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1753
1754* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1755
1756* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1757 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1758 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1759 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1760 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1761 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1762 is not built.
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1763
1764* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1765 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1766 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1767 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1768 invocation.
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1769
1770* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1771 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1772 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1774* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1775 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1776 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1777 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1778
1779* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1780 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1781 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1782 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1783 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1784 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1785 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1786 additional checks.
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1787
1788* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1789 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1790 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1791 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1792 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1793 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1794 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1795 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1796 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1797
1798* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1799 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1800 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1801 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1802 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1803 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1804
1805* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1806 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1807 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1808 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1810Version 2.19
1811
1812* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1813
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1814 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1815 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1816 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1817 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1818 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1819 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1820 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1821 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1822 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1823 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1824 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1825 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1826 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1827 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1828 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1829 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1830 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1831 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
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1834 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1835
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1836* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1837 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1838 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1839 extension which uses __block.
1840
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1841* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1842 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1843 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1844 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1845 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1846
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1847* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1848 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1849 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1850 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1851 if malloc fails.
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1852
1853* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1854 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1855 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1856 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1857 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1858
1859* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1860 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1861 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1862
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1863* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1864 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1865 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1866 #15856, #15857).
1867
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1868* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1869 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1870
82bab04b 1871* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1872 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1874* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1875
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1876* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1877 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1878
3e181dda 1879* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1880
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1881* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1882
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1883* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1884 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1885 for which the C library was built.
1886
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1887* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1888 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1889 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1890 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1891 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1892 in the following circumstances:
1893
1894 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1895
1896 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1897 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1898
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1899* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1900 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1901
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1902* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1903 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
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1905* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1906
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1907* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1908 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1909
8b7d57cd 1910* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1911
1912* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1913
fd712ef3 1914* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1915
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1916* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1917 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1918 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1919 disable some of those declarations.
1920
7011c262 1921* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1922 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1923 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1924
1925* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1926 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1927
1928* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1929 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1930 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1931 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1932 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1933 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1934 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1935 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1936 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1937 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1938 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1939 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1940 require recompilation.
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1942Version 2.18
1943
1944* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1945
17db6e8d 1946 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1947 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1948 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1949 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1950 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1951 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1952 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1953 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1954 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1955 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1956 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1957 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1958 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1959 15755, 15759.
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1961* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1962 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1963 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1964 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1965 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1966 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1967
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1968* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1969 #15078).
1970
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1971* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1972 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1973
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SP
1974* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1975 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1976 destructor calls to glibc.
1977
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1978* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1979 output.
1980
1981* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1982 non-x86 architectures.
1983
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1984* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1985
1986* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1987
1988* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1989 Richard Henderson.
1990
1991* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1992
1993* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1994 Richard Henderson.
1995
1996* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1997 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1998
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1999* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2000
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2001* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2002 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2003
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2004* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2005 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2006
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PE
2007* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2008 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2009 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2010
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2011* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2012 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2013 attributes of a process.
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2014
2015* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2016 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2017 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2018 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2019 mutexes.
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2020
2021* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2022 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2023
2024* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2025\f
2026Version 2.17
2027
2028* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2029
80ceeaee 2030 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2031 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2032 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2033 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2034 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2035 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2036 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2037 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2038 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2039 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2040 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2041 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2042 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2043 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2044 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
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2046* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2047
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2048* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2049 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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2051* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2052 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2053
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2054* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2055
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2056* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2057 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2058 zEnterprise z196.
2059 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2060
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2061* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2062 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2063 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2064
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2065* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2066 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2067
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2068* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2069 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2070
7aab07e4 2071* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2072 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2073
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2074* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2075 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2076
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2077* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2078 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2079 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2080 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2081
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2082* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2083 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2084
85429b1a 2085* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2086 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2087 default.
2088
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2089* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2090 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2091 information in --help and --version output.
2092
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2093* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2094 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2095 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2096
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2097* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2098 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2099 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2100 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2101 when the mode is enabled.
2102
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2103* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2104 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2105 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2106 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2107 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2108 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2109 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2110
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2111* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2112 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2114Version 2.16
2115
2116* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2117
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2118 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2119 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2120 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2121 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2122 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2123 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2124 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2125 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2126 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2127 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2128 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2129 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2130 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2131 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2132 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2133 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2134 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2135 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2136 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2137 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2138 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2139 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2140 14277, 14278.
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2143 configuring glibc with:
2144 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2145 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2146 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2147
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2149
2150 + define static_assert
2151
2152 + do not declare gets
2153
2154 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2155
2156 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2157 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2158 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2159 implementation.
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2163 + uchar.h support added
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2165 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2166
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2168
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2171* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2173* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2176* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2177 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2179* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2180 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2181 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2182 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2183 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2184
21708942 2185* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2186 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2187 before 2.6.
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2189* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2190 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2191 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2192
83678f76 2193* New locales: mag_IN
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2194
2195* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2196 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2197 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2198 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2199 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2200
2201* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2202
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2203* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2204 and Will Schmidt.
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2205
2206* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2207
2208* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2209 without a previously built glibc.
2210
2211* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2212 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2213
2214* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2215 now supported for ARM processors.
2216
2217* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2218 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2219 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2220
2221* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2223* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2224 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2225 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2226 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2228* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2229 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2230 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2231 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2233* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2234 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2235 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2236 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2237 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2238
2239* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2240 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2241 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2242 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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2247
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2248 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2249 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2250 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2251 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2252 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2253 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2254 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2257 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2259* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2260 and support for initgroups lookups.
2261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2263* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2264 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2266* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2267 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2269* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2270 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2271 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2272
d42964a0 2273* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2274 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2275
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2276* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2277 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2278 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2279
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2280* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2282
2283* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2285
2286* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2288
2289* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2291
2292* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2293 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2294
2295* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2298* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2299
2300* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2303* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2304 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 2306* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2310* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2311
553149f6 2312 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2313 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2314 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2315 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2316 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2317 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2318 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2319 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2320 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2321 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2323* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2324 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2325 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2326 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2327
2328 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2329 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2330 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2331 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2332
c6489db3 2333* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2334 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2335
72d1dddb 2336* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2337 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2338
2339* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2340
2341* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2342 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2343
2344* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2345 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2346 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2347 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2349Version 2.13
2350
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2351* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2352
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2353 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2354 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2355 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2356 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2357 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2358
10b3bedc 2359* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2360
ac2b484c 2361* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2363* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2364 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2367Version 2.12
2368
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2369* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2370
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2371 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2372 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2373 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2374 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2375 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2376 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2377 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2378 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2379
2380* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2381
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2382* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2383
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2384* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2385
2386* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2387 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2389
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2390* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2391 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2392 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2393 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2395
d36b9613 2396* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2398Version 2.11
2399
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2400* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2401
2402 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2403 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2404 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2405 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2406 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2407 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2408
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2409* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2410 mkostemps64
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2411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2412
24ab9c76 2413* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2414 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2415
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2416* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2417 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2418
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2419* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2420
0122f28e 2421* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2422 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2423 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2425
9d36a6c4 2426 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2427 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2428
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2429* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2430 strstr, strcasestr.
2431 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2432
2433* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2434 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2435
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2436* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2437 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2438
2439* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2441
2442* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2443 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2444 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2445 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2446 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2447 necessity is every process again.
2448 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2449
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2450* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2451 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2452
2453* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2454 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2455
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2456* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2457 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2459
9dd5b8a1 2460* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2462Version 2.10
2463
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2464* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2465
2466 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2467 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2468 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2469 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2470 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2471
bb066545 2472* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2474
425ce2ed 2475* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2476 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2477
1fdd89a7 2478* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2479 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2481* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2482 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2483
1f04d005 2484* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2485 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 2486
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2487* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2489
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2490* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2491 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2492
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2493* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2494 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2495
2496* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2497 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2498 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2499
735be400 2500* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2501
84aa52d7 2502* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2504
2505* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2506 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2508
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2509* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2510 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2511
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2512* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2513 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2514 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2515 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2516 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2520
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2521* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2522
2523 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2524 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2525 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2526 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2527 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2528
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2530 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2531
2532* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2533 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2535* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2537
2538* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2539 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2541
2542* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2543 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2547* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
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2550* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2551 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2552 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2553 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2554
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2555* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2556 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2558* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2559 Sinhala)
48b22986 2560 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2562* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2565
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2567
2568 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2569 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2570 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2571 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2572 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2573 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2574 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2575
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b4354cf4 2577
77751669 2578* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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2580* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2581 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2582
2583* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2584
2585* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2587
2588* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2589 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2590
2591* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2592 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2593 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2594
2595* Faster memset for x86-64.
2596 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2597
2598* Faster memcpy on x86.
2599 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2600
2601* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2602 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2604* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2605 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2608
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2610
2611 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2612 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2613 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2614 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2615 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2616
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2617* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2618 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2619
2620* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2621
2622* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2623 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2624 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2625
2626* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2627 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2628
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2630 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2631
2632* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2633
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2634* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2635 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2636
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2637* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2638 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2639
2640* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2641 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2642
2643* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2644
2645* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2648* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2649 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2650 yo_NG.
2651
2652+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2658
2659 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2660 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2661 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2662 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2663 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2664 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2665 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2666 4702, 4858
2667
bce20b9a 2668* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2671
b21fa963 2672* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2675
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2677
2678 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2679 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2680 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2681 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2682 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2683 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2684 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2685 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2686 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2687
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2689 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2692* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2694
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2697* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2699* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2700 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2701 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 2702 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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2703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2704
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2706 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2707 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2709
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2711 Ulrich Drepper.
2712
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2713* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2714
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2715* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2716 Ulrich Drepper.
2717
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2718* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2719
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2720* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2721 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2724
2725* More overflow detection functions.
2726
2727* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2728 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2730 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2731 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2732 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2733 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2734 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2735 by Masahide Washizawa.
2736
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2737* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2738 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2740* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2741 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2742 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2743 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2745* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2746 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2747
2748* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2749
2750* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2751 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2752 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2753
2754* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2755 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2756
2757* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2758 for compatibility with some other systems.
2759
2760* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2762Version 2.3.6
2763
2764* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2765
2766 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2767 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2768 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2769 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2770 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2771 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2772
2773 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2774
2775* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2776
2777* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2779Version 2.3.5
2780
2781* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2782
2783 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2784 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2785 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2786 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2787
2788 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2790Version 2.3.4
2791
2792* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2794
2795* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2796 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2798
2799* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2800 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2801
0325dd20 2802* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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2803 efficiently.
2804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2805
2806* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2807 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2808 handling data.
2809
2810* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2811 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2812 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2813
2814* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2815 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2816
2817* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2818 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2819 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2820 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2821
2822* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2823 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2824 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2825 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2826
2827* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2828 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2829 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2830 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2831 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2833Version 2.3.3
2834
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2835* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2836 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2837
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2838* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2839 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 2840
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2842 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2843
2844* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2845 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2847* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2848 by Roland McGrath.
2849
c5af724c 2850* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2851 and Ulrich Drepper.
2852
2853* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2854 RFC 3484.
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2856Version 2.3.2
2857
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2858* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2859 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2860 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2861 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2862 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2863 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2864 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2865 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2866 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2867
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2868* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2869 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2870 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2871
2872* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2873
2874* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2875 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2877* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2878 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2879
52a16e58 2880* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2882* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2883 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2885* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2886 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2887 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2888 of weak definition in ld.so.
2889
2890* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2891 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2892
2893* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2894 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2898* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2899 charsets.
2900
2901* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2902 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2904* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2905 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2907* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2908 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2909
bb0ec5bd 2910* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2911 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2912 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2914* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2915 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2916
bb0ec5bd 2917* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2918 implementation of regex.
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2920* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2921 Unicode 3.2.
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2923* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2924 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2926* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2927 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2928 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2930* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2932
2933* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2934 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2935 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2937* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2938 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2940* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2941 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2942 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2944* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2947
2948* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2949 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2950
2951* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2952 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2955
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2956* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2957 128-bit long double format.
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2959* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2960 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2961
ad2e4f18 2962* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2965
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2967 as well.
2968
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2969* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2970 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2972* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2975
2995f70e 2976* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2977 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2979* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2980 support Unicode 3.1.
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2982* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2983 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2984
69d5f925 2985* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2986
69d5f925 2987* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2988 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2989 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2990
2991* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2992 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2993
2994* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2995 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2997* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2999Version 2.2.3
3000
1746f2b0 3001* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3002 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3003 in float, double, and long double format.
3004
f128331c 3005* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3006 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3007 128-bit long double format.
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3009* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3010 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3011 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3012 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3013
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3014* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3015 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3016 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3017
3018* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3019 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3020
3021* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3022 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3023
3024* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3025 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3026 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3027
3028* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3029 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3031* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3032 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3034* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3036Version 2.2.2
3037
464d97ec 3038* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3039 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3040 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3041 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3042 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3043 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3044 other headers.
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3045
3046* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3047 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3048
3049* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3050 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3051 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3052 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3053
3054* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3055 locales. While
3056
3057 locale -a
3058
3059 only lists the names of the supported locales
3060
3061 locale -a --verbose
3062
3063 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3064 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3067
3068* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3069 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3070 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3071 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3072 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3073
3074 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3075
3076 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3077
3078 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3079
3080* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3081 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3082 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3083
3084* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3085 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3086
3087* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3088 changed from the default "C" locale.
3089
3090* The usual bug fixes.
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3092Version 2.2
3093
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3094* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3095 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3096 is in progress.
3097
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3098* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3099
793bd4d9 3100* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3102 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3103 obviously requires a database library being available.
3104
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3105* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3106
abbffdf9 3107* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3108
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3109* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3110 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3111
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3112* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3113
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3114* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3115 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3116 and Mark Kettenis.
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3117
3118 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3119 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3120 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3121
a00c3ca9 3122 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3123 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3124
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3125* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3126 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3127 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3128
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3129* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3130 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3131 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3132 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3133
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3134 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3135 structures for the wide character tables.
3136
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3137* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3138
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3139* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3140
3141* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3142
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3143* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3144 and Yutaka Niibe.
3145
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3146* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3147
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3148* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3149
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3150* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3151
3152* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3153
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3154* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3155
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3156* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3157 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3158 implemented for Linux.
3159
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3160* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3161 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3162 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3163 versions.
3164
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3165* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3166 Masahide Washizawa.
3167
8f3f1e09 3168* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3169\f
3170Version 2.1.3
3171
3172* bug fixes
3173
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3175Version 2.1.2
3176
3177* bug fixes
3178
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3180Version 2.1.1
3181
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3182* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3183
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3184* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3185
407d26b7 3186* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3187
3188* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3189
407d26b7 3190* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3191
407d26b7 3192* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3193
3194* Update timezone data files.
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3196* lots of charmaps corrections
3197
3198* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3199
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3201Version 2.1
3202
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3203* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3204 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3205 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3206 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3207 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3208 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3209
c84142e8 3210* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3211 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3212
1fb05e3d 3213* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3214 symbol level.
3215
3216* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3217 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 3219* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3220
3221* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3222 numbers.
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cbdee279 3224* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3225
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3226* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3227 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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3229* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3230 library.
3231
e61abf83 3232* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3233 functions from ISO C 9X.
3234
3235* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3236 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3237
a5a0310d 3238* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3240* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3241
3242* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3243
440d13e2 3244* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3245
3246* Optimized string functions have been added.
3247
3248* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3249
3250* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3252* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3253 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3254
3255 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3256 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3257
0dee6738 3258 user system wall
48244d09 3259
0dee6738 3260 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3261
0dee6738 3262 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3263
0dee6738 3264 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3266 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3267
3268 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3269
3270 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3272 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3273 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3274 horribly slow.
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3276 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3277 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3278
3279* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3280
3281* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3282
3283* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3284 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3285
3286* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3288* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3289 Bambrough.
3290
3291* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3292 latest draft standards.
3293
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3294* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3295
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3296* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3297~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3300argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3301argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3302argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3303argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3304argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3305argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3306argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3307argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3308argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3309argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3311authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3312authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3314backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3315backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3316cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3317cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3318cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3319cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3320cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3321cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3322capget NEW: kernel
3323capset NEW: kernel
3324carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3325cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3326cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3327casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3328casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3329casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3330casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3331casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3332casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3333catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3334catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3335catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3336catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3337catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3338catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3341ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3342ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3343ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3344ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3345ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3346cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3347cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3348cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3349cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3350cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3351cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3352clearerr_locked REMOVED
3353clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3354clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3355clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3356clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3357clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3358clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3359clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3360conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3361conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3362conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3363cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3364cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3365cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3366cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3367cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3368cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3369creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3370crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3371creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3372creat64 NEW: LFS
3373csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3374csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3375csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3376csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3377csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3378csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3379csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3380csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3381csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3382ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3383ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3384ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3385ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3387ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3388des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3389ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3390endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3391exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3392exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3393exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3394exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3395exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3396exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3397fattach NEW: STREAMS
3398fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3399fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3400fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3401fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3402feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3403fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3404fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3405fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3406feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3407feof_locked REMOVED
3408feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3409ferror_locked REMOVED
3410fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3411fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3412fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3413fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3414feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3415fflush_locked REMOVED
3416ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3417ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3418fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3419fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3420fileno_locked REMOVED
3421fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3422fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3423fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3424fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3425fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3426fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3427fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3428fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3429fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3430fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3432fputc_locked REMOVED
3433fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3434fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3435freopen64 NEW: LFS
3436fseeko NEW: Unix98
3437fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3438fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3439fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3440fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3441ftello NEW: Unix98
3442ftello64 NEW: LFS
3443ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3444ftw64 NEW: LFS
3445fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3446gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3447gamma_r REMOVED
3448gammaf_r REMOVED
3449gammal_r REMOVED
3450getchar_locked REMOVED
3451getdate NEW: Unix98
3452getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3453getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3454getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3455getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 3456getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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3458getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3459getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3460getutxent NEW: Unix98
3461getutxid NEW: Unix98
3462getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3463glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3464globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3465gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3466gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3467grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3468host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3470iconv_close NEW: iconv
3471iconv_open NEW: iconv
3472if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3473if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3474if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3475if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3476in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3477in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3478inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3479isastream NEW: STREAMS
3480iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3481key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3482key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3483key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3484key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3485key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3486key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3487key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3488key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3489key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3491llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3492llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3493llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3494llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3495llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3496log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3497log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3498log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3499lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3500lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3501lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3502lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3503lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3504lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3505lseek64 NEW: LFS
3506makecontext NEW: Unix98
3507mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3508mmap64 NEW: LFS
3509moncontrol REMOVED
3510modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3511nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3512nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3513nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3514nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3515nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3516nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3518netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3520nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3521nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3523nftw64 NEW: LFS
3524open64 NEW: LFS
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3526pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3527pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3528pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3529pread NEW: Unix98
3530pread64 NEW: LFS
3531printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3532printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3533profil_counter REMOVED
3534pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3535pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3536ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3537ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3538putc_locked REMOVED
3539putchar_locked REMOVED
3540putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3541putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3542putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
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3544pwrite NEW: Unix98
3545pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3546readdir64 NEW: LFS
3547readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3548remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3549remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3550remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3551round NEW: ISO C 9x
3552roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3553roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3554rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3555scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3556scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3557scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3558scandir64 NEW: LFS
3559sendfile NEW: kernel
3560setcontext NEW: Unix98
3561setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3562setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3564sigignore NEW: Unix98
3565sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3566sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3567sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3568sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3569sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3570sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3571sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3572sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3573statfs64 NEW: LFS
3574statvfs NEW: Unix98
3575statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3576strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3577strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3578strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3579strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3580svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3581svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3582svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3583swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3584tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3585tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3586tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3587tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3588tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3589tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3590trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3591truncate64 NEW: LFS
3592truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3593truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3594umount2 NEW: kernel
3595unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3596updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3597user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3598utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3599versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3600versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3601waitid NEW: Unix98
3602wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3603wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3604wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3605wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3606wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3607wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3608wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3609wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3610wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3611wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3612write_profiling REMOVED
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3613xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3614xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3615xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3616xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3617xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3618xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3619xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3620xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3621xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3622xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3623xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3624xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3625xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3626xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3627xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3628~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3630Version 2.0.6
3631
3632* more bug fixes
3633
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3635Version 2.0.5
3636
3637* more bug fixes
3638
3639* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3640
3641* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3642
3643* rewrite of cbrt function
3644
3645* update of timezone data
3646\f
3647Version 2.0.4
3648
3649* more bug fixes
3650\f
3651Version 2.0.3
3652
3653* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3654\f
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3655Version 2.0.2
3656
3657* more bug fixes
3658
3659* add atoll function
3660
3661* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3662
3663* fix math functions
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3665Version 2.0.1
3666
3667* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3668
3669* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3670
3671* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3672 the ELF dynamic loader.
3673
3674* support for parallel builds is improved
3675\f
40a4b79f 3676Version 2.0
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3678* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3679 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3680 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3681
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3682* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3683 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3684 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3685 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3686 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3687 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3688 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3689 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3690 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3691 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3692 files in the ELF format.
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3693
3694* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3695 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3696
3697* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3698 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3699 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3700 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3701 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3702 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3703 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3704 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3705 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3706 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3707 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3709* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3710 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3711 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3712 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3713 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3714
f7eac6eb 3715* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3716 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3717 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3718 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3719 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3720
3721* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3723* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3724 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3725 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3726 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3727 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3728 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3729 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3730 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3731 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3732
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3733* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3734 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3735 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3736
3737* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3738 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3739 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3740
3741* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3742 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3743 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3744 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3745
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3746* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3747 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3748 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3749
3750* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3751 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3752 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3753
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3754* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3755 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3756
f7eac6eb 3757* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3758 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3759 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3760 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3761
3762* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3763 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3764 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3765
71733723 3766* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3767 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3768 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3769 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3770 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3771 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3772 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3773 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3774
3775* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3776 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3777 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3778 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3779 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3780 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3781 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3782
3783* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3784 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3785 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3786 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3787 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3788 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3789
3790* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3791 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3792
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3793* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3794 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3795 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3797* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3798
3799* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3800 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3801 their use is discouraged.
3802
3803* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3804 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3806* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3807 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3808
3809* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3810 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3811
3812* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3813 see <dirent.h>.
3814
3815* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3816 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3817 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3818 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3819 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3820
3821* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3822 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3823 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3824 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3825
3826* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3827 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3828
3829* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3830 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3831 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3832 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3833 number generator.
3834
3835* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3836 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3837
3838* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3839 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3840
71733723 3841* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3842 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3843 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3844 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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3846* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3847
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3848* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3849 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3850 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3851
3852* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3853 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 3854
c709e372 3855* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3856 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3857 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3858 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3859
3860* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3861 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3862 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3863 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3864 programs already written to use it.)
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3865
3866* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3867 constants.
3868
3869* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3870 with 4.4 BSD.
3871
3872* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3873 a given effective group ID.
3874
3875* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3876 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3877 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3878 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3879
3880* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3881 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3882 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3883 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3884 doing the same thing.
3885
3886* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3887 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3888
3889* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3890 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3891
3892* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3893
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3894* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3895 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3896 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3897 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3898 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3899
3900* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3901 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3902
3903* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3904 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3905 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3906 function.
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3907
3908* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3909
3910* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3911 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3912 strings.
3913
3914* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3915 and writing the utmp file.
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3916
3917* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3918 Thorsten Kukuk.
3919
3920* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3921 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3922 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3923
3924* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3925 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3926
3927* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3928 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3929 specification.
3930
3931* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3932 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3933 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3934 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3935
3936* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3937 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3938 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3939
3940* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3941 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3942 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3943 expression matcher.
3944
3945* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3946 functionality.
3947
3948* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3949 by Ulrich Drepper.
3950
3951* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3952
3953* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3954 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3955 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3956\f
3957Version 1.09
3958
3959* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3960
3961* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3962 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3963
3964* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3965 want to put themselves in the background.
3966
3967* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3968 run without an operating system.
3969
3970* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3971 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3972
3973* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3974 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3975
3976* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3977
3978* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3979 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3980 have YP (aka NIS).
3981
3982* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3983 conventions.
3984
3985* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3986 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3987\f
3988Version 1.08
3989
3990* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3991 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3992 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3993
3994* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3995 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3996
3997* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3998 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3999
4000* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4001
4002* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4003
4004* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4005 compatibility.
4006
4007* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4008 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4009 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4010
4011* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4012
4013* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4014 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4015 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4016
4017* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4018 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4019 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4020 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4021 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4022 on a block).
4023
4024* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4025 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4026 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4027 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4028 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4029 cross-compiler.
4030
4031* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4032 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4033\f
4034Version 1.07
4035
4036* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4037 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4038
4039* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4040 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4041 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4042
4043* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4044 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4045 address of the last character written.
4046
4047* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4048 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4049
4050* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4051 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4052
4053* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4054 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4055 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4056 you dereference this pointer.
4057
4058* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4059 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4060
4061* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4062 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4063 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4064 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4065
4066* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4067 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4068 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4069 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4070\f
4071Version 1.06
4072
4073* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4074 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4075 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4076 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4077 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4078
4079* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4080
4081* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4082
4083* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4084 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4085
4086* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4087 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4088
4089* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4090 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4091
4092* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4093 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4094 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4095 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4096 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4097
4098* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4099 to the error code in `errno'.
4100
4101* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4102 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4103 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4104 malloc'd string.
4105
4106* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4107 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4108 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4109
4110* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4111 uniquely-named temporary file.
4112\f
4113Version 1.05
4114
4115* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4116 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4117 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4118
4119* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4120 characters.
4121
4122* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4123 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4124
4125* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4126\f
4127Version 1.04
4128
4129* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4130 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4131 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4132 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4133
4134* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4135 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4136 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4137
4138* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4139 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4140
4141* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4142 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4143 made itself into a shared library.
4144
4145* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4146 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4147
4148* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4149 with limited length.
4150
4151* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4152
4153* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4154
4155* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4156
4157* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4158 function for traversing a directory tree.
4159
4160* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4161 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4162 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4163 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4164
4165* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4166 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4167
4168* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4169
4170* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4171 things to your strings.
4172
4173* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4174
4175* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4176 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4177 supporting those systems.
4178
4179* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4180 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4181 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4182 configuration files.
4183
4184* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4185 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4186
4187* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4188 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4189 in <strings.h>.)
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4190
4191* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4192 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4193 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4194 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4195 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4196 required storage is not available.
4197
4198* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4199 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4200
4201* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4202 latest files released from Berkeley.
4203\f
4204----------------------------------------------------------------------
4205Copyright information:
4206
58b587c1 4207Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4208
4209 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4210 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4211 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4212 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4213
4214 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4215 of this document, or of portions of it,
4216 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4217 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4218\f
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