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ee9247c3 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. |
d4697bc9 | 2 | Copyright (C) 1992-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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3 | See the end for copying conditions. |
4 | ||
d9814526 | 5 | Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> |
69be6aaf | 6 | using `glibc' in the "product" field. |
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7 | \f |
8 | Version 2.19 | |
9 | ||
10 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
11 | ||
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12 | 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 7003, |
13 | 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12986, 13028, | |
14 | 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14547, 14699, 14752, | |
15 | 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089, 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, | |
16 | 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427, 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, | |
17 | 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632, 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, | |
18 | 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748, 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, | |
19 | 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844, 15846, 15847, 15849, 15855, | |
20 | 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886, 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, | |
21 | 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915, 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, | |
22 | 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, | |
23 | 16037, 16038, 16041, 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, | |
24 | 16112, 16143, 16144, 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16172, 16195, | |
25 | 16214, 16245, 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, | |
26 | 16337, 16338, 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16384, | |
eb3fc44b | 27 | 16385, 16386, 16390, 16400. |
141f3a77 | 28 | |
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29 | * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the |
30 | Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators. | |
31 | ||
2fe16229 CD |
32 | * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to |
33 | support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use | |
34 | __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock | |
08d76093 CD |
35 | extension which uses __block. |
36 | ||
303e567a SP |
37 | * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for |
38 | large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache | |
39 | computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a | |
40 | stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm | |
41 | which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow. | |
42 | ||
141f3a77 SP |
43 | * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and |
44 | rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls | |
45 | back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow. | |
46 | The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup | |
47 | if malloc fails. | |
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48 | |
49 | * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not | |
50 | initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature | |
51 | being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a | |
52 | random value for static applications. Existing static applications need | |
53 | to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754). | |
91ce4085 FW |
54 | |
55 | * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes | |
56 | to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL | |
57 | character. (Bugzilla #14699). | |
58 | ||
ba0d798c WN |
59 | * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and |
60 | aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the | |
61 | heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855, | |
62 | #15856, #15857). | |
63 | ||
7cbcdb36 SP |
64 | * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results |
65 | for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072). | |
66 | ||
82bab04b | 67 | * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW, |
b46d046e | 68 | pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP. |
ddd9fb8f | 69 | |
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70 | * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT |
71 | ||
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72 | * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all |
73 | supported locales. | |
ddd9fb8f | 74 | |
3e181dda | 75 | * ISO 1427 definitions were updated. |
7447ccd9 | 76 | |
8a05c252 CL |
77 | * ISO 3166 definitions were updated. |
78 | ||
6055173a JM |
79 | * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian |
80 | command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that | |
81 | for which the C library was built. | |
82 | ||
b125d3e5 JM |
83 | * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for |
84 | which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a | |
85 | consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible | |
86 | with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with | |
87 | old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library, | |
88 | in the following circumstances: | |
89 | ||
90 | + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems. | |
91 | ||
92 | + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may | |
93 | be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed. | |
94 | ||
d4f66d37 JM |
95 | * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with |
96 | --disable-versioning had not worked for several years. | |
97 | ||
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98 | * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh, |
99 | cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue). | |
e35696c3 | 100 | |
ffb89e53 AO |
101 | * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced. |
102 | ||
8b7d57cd | 103 | * Support for powerpc64le has been added. |
b125d3e5 JM |
104 | |
105 | * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors. | |
0a3ac0aa | 106 | |
fd712ef3 | 107 | * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64. |
7011c262 | 108 | |
c688b419 JM |
109 | * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same |
110 | set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other | |
111 | feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise | |
112 | disable some of those declarations. | |
113 | ||
7011c262 | 114 | * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that |
029c7b25 JM |
115 | conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library |
116 | that did nothing) has also been removed. | |
2c8bfe7d DM |
117 | \f |
118 | Version 2.18 | |
119 | ||
120 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
121 | ||
17db6e8d | 122 | 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120, |
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123 | 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988, |
124 | 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496, | |
125 | 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14952, | |
126 | 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003, 15006, | |
127 | 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062, 15078, | |
128 | 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234, 15283, | |
129 | 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335, 15336, | |
130 | 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381, 15394, | |
131 | 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424, 15426, | |
132 | 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485, 15488, | |
133 | 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577, 15583, | |
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134 | 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711, 15755, |
135 | 15759. | |
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136 | |
137 | * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal | |
138 | has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755). | |
139 | Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure | |
140 | option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it | |
141 | considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution | |
142 | understands and accepts the risks. | |
1cef1b19 | 143 | |
5b535ac4 AS |
144 | * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla |
145 | #15078). | |
146 | ||
1cef1b19 AS |
147 | * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been |
148 | fixed (Bugzilla #15330). | |
7fffbdff | 149 | |
55e4107b SP |
150 | * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread |
151 | and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11 | |
152 | destructor calls to glibc. | |
153 | ||
e5c74c63 SP |
154 | * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and |
155 | output. | |
156 | ||
157 | * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on | |
158 | non-x86 architectures. | |
159 | ||
e7521973 JM |
160 | * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove. |
161 | ||
162 | * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft. | |
163 | ||
164 | * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and | |
165 | Richard Henderson. | |
166 | ||
167 | * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. | |
168 | ||
169 | * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by | |
170 | Richard Henderson. | |
171 | ||
172 | * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by | |
173 | Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov. | |
174 | ||
8cfdb7e0 SP |
175 | * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc. |
176 | ||
57267616 TS |
177 | * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN). |
178 | It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension. | |
58206c68 | 179 | |
c204ab28 SP |
180 | * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call |
181 | for improved precision, rather than old times system call. | |
61dd6208 | 182 | |
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183 | * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using |
184 | the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases -- | |
185 | currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037. | |
186 | ||
61dd6208 SP |
187 | * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and |
188 | pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread | |
189 | attributes of a process. | |
a7cb9d67 AK |
190 | |
191 | * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64. | |
192 | This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems. | |
193 | When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure | |
194 | time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT | |
195 | mutexes. | |
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196 | |
197 | * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10 | |
198 | availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold. | |
199 | ||
200 | * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold. | |
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201 | \f |
202 | Version 2.17 | |
203 | ||
204 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
205 | ||
80ceeaee | 206 | 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808, |
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207 | 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638, |
208 | 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679, | |
209 | 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950, | |
210 | 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157, | |
211 | 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298, | |
212 | 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376, | |
213 | 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518, | |
214 | 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568, | |
215 | 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645, | |
216 | 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719, | |
217 | 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803, | |
218 | 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833, | |
219 | 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872, | |
220 | 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914. | |
14bc93a9 | 221 | |
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222 | * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS. |
223 | ||
14bc93a9 JL |
224 | * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with |
225 | EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889). | |
7a845b2c | 226 | |
b54eb3cb JM |
227 | * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory |
228 | of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately. | |
229 | ||
7e2bd01f MS |
230 | * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro. |
231 | ||
08f43f9b AK |
232 | * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x. |
233 | Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and | |
234 | zEnterprise z196. | |
235 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
236 | ||
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237 | * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment, |
238 | returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces | |
239 | the internal function __secure_getenv. | |
240 | ||
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241 | * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker. |
242 | Implemented by Gary Benson. | |
243 | ||
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244 | * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem. |
245 | Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov. | |
246 | ||
7aab07e4 | 247 | * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library |
6dad2c06 | 248 | can be used with is 2.6.16. |
7aab07e4 | 249 | |
15d0da8c WS |
250 | * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for |
251 | powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt. | |
252 | ||
3cc3ef96 RM |
253 | * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it |
254 | never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd). | |
c53d909c RM |
255 | New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself; |
256 | this is the default if --disable-nscd is used. | |
3cc3ef96 | 257 | |
b54eb3cb JM |
258 | * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and |
259 | bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc. | |
260 | ||
85429b1a | 261 | * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an |
0d224d52 | 262 | interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by |
85429b1a DM |
263 | default. |
264 | ||
b54eb3cb JM |
265 | * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for |
266 | distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version | |
267 | information in --help and --version output. | |
268 | ||
050af9c4 SP |
269 | * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for |
270 | the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This | |
271 | allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. | |
272 | ||
89a3ad0b AO |
273 | * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the |
274 | specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will | |
275 | consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is | |
276 | enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm | |
277 | when the mode is enabled. | |
278 | ||
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279 | * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available |
280 | directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with | |
281 | -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a | |
282 | single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and | |
283 | is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads | |
284 | library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with | |
285 | multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library. | |
5a04f376 | 286 | |
d9286582 NK |
287 | * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ, |
288 | sat_IN, and szl_PL. | |
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289 | \f |
290 | Version 2.16 | |
291 | ||
292 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
293 | ||
bedee953 PP |
294 | 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 887, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, |
295 | 2551, 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, | |
296 | 3335, 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, | |
297 | 4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, | |
d9dc34cd TMQMF |
298 | 6884, 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, |
299 | 10140, 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 11174, | |
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300 | 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047, |
301 | 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495, | |
302 | 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, | |
303 | 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563, | |
304 | 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656, | |
305 | 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738, | |
306 | 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792, | |
307 | 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854, | |
308 | 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892, | |
309 | 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917, | |
310 | 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928, | |
311 | 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970, | |
312 | 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036, | |
313 | 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064, | |
314 | 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123, | |
315 | 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273, | |
316 | 14277, 14278. | |
380d7e87 | 317 | |
a086b4d6 L |
318 | * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by |
319 | configuring glibc with: | |
320 | BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32' | |
321 | Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info. | |
322 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
323 | ||
380d7e87 UD |
324 | * ISO C11 support: |
325 | ||
326 | + define static_assert | |
327 | ||
328 | + do not declare gets | |
329 | ||
330 | + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11 | |
331 | ||
332 | + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter | |
333 | to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement | |
334 | in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the | |
335 | implementation. | |
8d44e150 | 336 | |
74033a25 | 337 | + timespec_get added |
544563c9 UD |
338 | |
339 | + uchar.h support added | |
d75a0a62 | 340 | |
ac097f5c UD |
341 | + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added |
342 | ||
16dd419d UD |
343 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
344 | ||
9dc4e1fb | 345 | * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports. |
33808bf1 UD |
346 | |
347 | * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format | |
d9a216c0 UD |
348 | |
349 | * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added. | |
350 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
daa891c0 UD |
351 | |
352 | * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions. | |
353 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
021db4be AJ |
354 | |
355 | * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC | |
356 | headers and functions available at compile time as they were before | |
357 | version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future | |
358 | after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of | |
359 | existing applications. | |
ffb7875d | 360 | |
21708942 | 361 | * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed. |
ffb7875d JM |
362 | Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version |
363 | before 2.6. | |
83678f76 | 364 | |
edb00e4d RH |
365 | * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to |
366 | the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also | |
367 | defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key. | |
368 | ||
83678f76 | 369 | * New locales: mag_IN |
7b44a2df RM |
370 | |
371 | * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes | |
372 | into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations. | |
373 | So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are | |
374 | provided only for i*86 and x86_64. | |
375 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho. | |
47e452cf JM |
376 | |
377 | * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva. | |
378 | ||
d9dc34cd TMQMF |
379 | * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella |
380 | and Will Schmidt. | |
47e452cf JM |
381 | |
382 | * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. | |
383 | ||
384 | * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds | |
385 | without a previously built glibc. | |
386 | ||
387 | * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by | |
388 | Chris Metcalf from Tilera. | |
389 | ||
390 | * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is | |
391 | now supported for ARM processors. | |
392 | ||
393 | * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 | |
394 | as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the | |
395 | /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI. | |
396 | ||
397 | * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports. | |
d9dc34cd TMQMF |
398 | |
399 | * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level | |
400 | platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a | |
401 | function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio | |
402 | Magno Quites Machado Filho. | |
929cc14e AJ |
403 | |
404 | * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with | |
405 | what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used | |
406 | for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds. | |
407 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
ee9247c3 CD |
408 | |
409 | * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was | |
410 | conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math | |
411 | library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results. | |
412 | Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his | |
413 | patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues. | |
414 | ||
415 | * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts | |
416 | will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from | |
417 | their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at | |
418 | <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>. | |
ee1a7fab | 419 | \f |
e80fab37 | 420 | Version 2.15 |
11988f8f | 421 | |
c0244a9d UD |
422 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
423 | ||
aebae053 UD |
424 | 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847, |
425 | 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962, | |
426 | 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092, | |
427 | 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179, | |
428 | 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335, | |
429 | 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472, | |
430 | 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540 | |
c0244a9d | 431 | |
11988f8f UD |
432 | * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process |
433 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
9f2da732 UD |
434 | |
435 | * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db | |
436 | and support for initgroups lookups. | |
437 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0b1cbaae L |
438 | |
439 | * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32. | |
440 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
8912479f L |
441 | |
442 | * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64. | |
443 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
99710781 | 444 | |
fc2ee42a LD |
445 | * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen |
446 | on x86-32 and x86-64. | |
99710781 | 447 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
c55fbd1e | 448 | |
d42964a0 | 449 | * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32. |
693fb948 LD |
450 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
451 | ||
1d3e4b61 UD |
452 | * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy |
453 | for x86-64 and x86-32. | |
093ecf92 LD |
454 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
455 | ||
c55fbd1e UD |
456 | * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64 |
457 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
a0f33f99 UD |
458 | |
459 | * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added. | |
460 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
684ae515 UD |
461 | |
462 | * nscd now also caches the netgroup database. | |
463 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0ac5ae23 UD |
464 | |
465 | * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option. | |
466 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
d9a4d2ab UD |
467 | |
468 | * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations | |
469 | to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
470 | ||
471 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64. | |
472 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
78239589 UD |
473 | |
474 | * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev | |
e188ebba UD |
475 | |
476 | * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32. | |
477 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
a1267ba1 | 478 | |
f0b264f1 AZ |
479 | * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC. |
480 | Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella. | |
2655fd5c | 481 | |
6b64057b | 482 | * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK |
e80fab37 | 483 | \f |
dded88cd | 484 | Version 2.14 |
9f94d2ea | 485 | |
50934221 UD |
486 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
487 | ||
553149f6 | 488 | 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257, |
873ca504 UD |
489 | 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724, |
490 | 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945, | |
7ae22829 | 491 | 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350, |
4462fad3 UD |
492 | 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489, |
493 | 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583, | |
494 | 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655, | |
4769ae77 UD |
495 | 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723, |
496 | 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792, | |
f16846a5 | 497 | 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841 |
50934221 | 498 | |
7b57bfe5 UD |
499 | * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working |
500 | but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore. | |
501 | Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC. | |
6b1e7d19 | 502 | The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits. |
018b9e36 UD |
503 | |
504 | Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link | |
a0446976 UD |
505 | programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the |
506 | removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers. | |
7b57bfe5 UD |
507 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
508 | ||
c6489db3 | 509 | * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, |
f1f929d7 | 510 | syncfs, setns, sendmmsg |
83fe108b | 511 | |
72d1dddb | 512 | * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH, |
a7b80ed5 | 513 | yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU |
bc469bea UD |
514 | |
515 | * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774 | |
a9171047 UD |
516 | |
517 | * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs | |
518 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
7d17596c UD |
519 | |
520 | * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed | |
521 | from the default implementation in the next version. The design never | |
522 | worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do | |
523 | not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally. | |
9f94d2ea | 524 | \f |
4828935d LM |
525 | Version 2.13 |
526 | ||
ac2b484c UD |
527 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
528 | ||
c30b7ee2 UD |
529 | 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611, |
530 | 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979, | |
531 | 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113, | |
532 | 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348, | |
533 | 12378, 12394, 12397 | |
ac2b484c | 534 | |
10b3bedc | 535 | * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark |
c08fb0d7 | 536 | |
ac2b484c | 537 | * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp |
8d50becc | 538 | |
e9f82e0d UD |
539 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2), |
540 | strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2) | |
8d50becc | 541 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
4828935d | 542 | \f |
ee1a7fab UD |
543 | Version 2.12 |
544 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
545 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
546 | ||
2e0fb521 DL |
547 | 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, |
548 | 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, | |
549 | 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, | |
550 | 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184, | |
fc97f36d UD |
551 | 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194, |
552 | 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279, | |
553 | 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, | |
5ae958d7 | 554 | 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571 |
86a4c67f UD |
555 | |
556 | * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np | |
d36b9613 | 557 | |
ee1a7fab UD |
558 | * New Linux interface: recvmmsg |
559 | ||
5e4295fb UD |
560 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller. |
561 | ||
562 | * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the | |
563 | EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header. | |
564 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
565 | ||
71170aa0 UD |
566 | * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table |
567 | will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies. | |
568 | Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be | |
569 | missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris. | |
570 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
571 | ||
d36b9613 | 572 | * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU |
b50f8e42 UD |
573 | \f |
574 | Version 2.11 | |
575 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
576 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
577 | ||
578 | 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183, | |
579 | 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229, | |
580 | 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416, | |
581 | 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564, | |
582 | 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784, | |
583 | 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847 | |
584 | ||
3a83202d UD |
585 | * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps, |
586 | mkostemps64 | |
3d5243d4 UD |
587 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
588 | ||
24ab9c76 | 589 | * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack |
b50f8e42 UD |
590 | frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
591 | ||
b8706f70 UD |
592 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables. |
593 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
594 | ||
51a71cf0 UD |
595 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra. |
596 | ||
0122f28e | 597 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp, |
9d36a6c4 | 598 | strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), |
7f3146e7 | 599 | strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2). |
0122f28e UD |
600 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. |
601 | ||
9d36a6c4 | 602 | strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3). |
0122f28e UD |
603 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
604 | ||
9d36a6c4 UD |
605 | * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk, |
606 | strstr, strcasestr. | |
607 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
608 | ||
609 | * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64. | |
610 | Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper. | |
611 | ||
0122f28e UD |
612 | * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so. |
613 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
614 | ||
615 | * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added. | |
616 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
617 | ||
618 | * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more | |
619 | broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not | |
620 | handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending | |
621 | the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf | |
622 | can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the | |
623 | necessity is every process again. | |
624 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
625 | ||
9d36a6c4 UD |
626 | * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup. |
627 | Implemented by Adam Tkac. | |
628 | ||
629 | * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x. | |
630 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
631 | ||
4bc1b896 UD |
632 | * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel |
633 | support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64. | |
634 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
635 | ||
9dd5b8a1 | 636 | * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM |
f1092afe UD |
637 | \f |
638 | Version 2.10 | |
639 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
640 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
641 | ||
642 | 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098, | |
643 | 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736, | |
644 | 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881, | |
645 | 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052, | |
646 | 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128 | |
647 | ||
bb066545 | 648 | * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info |
e109c612 UD |
649 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
650 | ||
425ce2ed | 651 | * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64. |
e109c612 | 652 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
6f5c3117 | 653 | |
1fdd89a7 | 654 | * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This |
735be400 | 655 | could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code. |
1fdd89a7 | 656 | |
6cbe890a UD |
657 | * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are |
658 | now in POSIX. | |
77db439e | 659 | |
1f04d005 | 660 | * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo |
6cbe890a | 661 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1f04d005 | 662 | |
610e67ed UD |
663 | * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit |
664 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
665 | ||
878b72c5 UD |
666 | * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime |
667 | using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
668 | ||
e109c612 UD |
669 | * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in |
670 | NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
671 | ||
672 | * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient | |
673 | but higher performing in multi-threaded programs. | |
674 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
675 | ||
735be400 | 676 | * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN |
878b72c5 | 677 | |
84aa52d7 | 678 | * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64. |
9d26efa9 UD |
679 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
680 | ||
681 | * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types | |
682 | and extend existing format specifiers. | |
a152f366 UD |
683 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
684 | ||
c7e74e59 UD |
685 | * Handling for group shadow files has been added. |
686 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
687 | ||
57be3fd7 UD |
688 | * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS |
689 | servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS | |
690 | server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout | |
691 | in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put | |
692 | 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. | |
693 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
28919a77 | 694 | \f |
b29899ae UD |
695 | Version 2.9 |
696 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
697 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
698 | ||
699 | 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461, | |
700 | 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713, | |
701 | 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843, | |
702 | 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966, | |
703 | 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029 | |
704 | ||
b29899ae | 705 | * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked |
f05ac8f5 UD |
706 | up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
707 | ||
708 | * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64. | |
709 | Implemented by Alexandre Oliva. | |
18a74157 UD |
710 | |
711 | * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite. | |
712 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0caca71a UD |
713 | |
714 | * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, | |
715 | htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh. | |
716 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
717 | ||
718 | * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n). | |
719 | Implemented by Eric Blake. | |
e038616f | 720 | |
8ec2550e | 721 | * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2 |
e038616f UD |
722 | |
723 | * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the | |
ebcc1f4d | 724 | close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
e038616f | 725 | |
7b3ba2c4 UD |
726 | * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't |
727 | implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really | |
728 | use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis. | |
729 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
730 | ||
e038616f UD |
731 | * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec |
732 | flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
48b22986 | 733 | |
bf837fa3 UD |
734 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu, |
735 | Sinhala) | |
48b22986 | 736 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. |
0a26fc4d UD |
737 | |
738 | * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW. | |
b29899ae | 739 | \f |
28919a77 UD |
740 | Version 2.8 |
741 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
742 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
743 | ||
744 | 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220, | |
745 | 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382, | |
746 | 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454, | |
747 | 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600, | |
748 | 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768, | |
749 | 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979, | |
750 | 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042 | |
751 | ||
e038616f | 752 | * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA. |
b4354cf4 | 753 | |
77751669 | 754 | * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. |
aece054b UD |
755 | |
756 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). | |
757 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. | |
758 | ||
759 | * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID | |
760 | ||
761 | * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries | |
762 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
763 | ||
764 | * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. | |
765 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
766 | ||
767 | * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, | |
768 | vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. | |
769 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
770 | ||
771 | * Faster memset for x86-64. | |
772 | Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. | |
773 | ||
774 | * Faster memcpy on x86. | |
775 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
776 | ||
777 | * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). | |
778 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3b32d8a2 UD |
779 | |
780 | * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. | |
d990b282 | 781 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. |
46c38bd7 | 782 | \f |
e1db0493 UD |
783 | Version 2.7 |
784 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
785 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
786 | ||
787 | 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566, | |
788 | 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773, | |
789 | 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925, | |
790 | 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063, | |
791 | 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186 | |
792 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
793 | * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open. |
794 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
795 | ||
796 | * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
797 | ||
798 | * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance | |
799 | by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested. | |
800 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
801 | ||
802 | * PPC optimizations to math and string functions. | |
803 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. | |
804 | ||
28919a77 | 805 | * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional |
e1db0493 UD |
806 | options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
807 | ||
808 | * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
809 | ||
0304f168 UD |
810 | * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write. |
811 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
812 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
813 | * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation. |
814 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
815 | ||
816 | * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc. | |
817 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
818 | ||
819 | * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
820 | ||
821 | * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption. | |
822 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0304f168 UD |
823 | |
824 | * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG, | |
825 | ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN, | |
826 | yo_NG. | |
827 | ||
828 | + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU. | |
829 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
e1db0493 | 830 | \f |
11bf311e | 831 | Version 2.6 |
46c38bd7 | 832 | |
d36b9613 UD |
833 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
834 | ||
835 | 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348, | |
836 | 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493, | |
837 | 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842, | |
838 | 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991, | |
839 | 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114, | |
840 | 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392, | |
841 | 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586, | |
842 | 4702, 4858 | |
843 | ||
bce20b9a | 844 | * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu. |
46c38bd7 | 845 | |
4a44ce79 UD |
846 | * New generic interfaces: strerror_l. |
847 | ||
b21fa963 | 848 | * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
3af48b5b UD |
849 | \f |
850 | Version 2.5 | |
851 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
852 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
853 | ||
854 | 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784, | |
855 | 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182, | |
856 | 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472, | |
857 | 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526, | |
858 | 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693, | |
859 | 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841, | |
860 | 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998, | |
861 | 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189, | |
862 | 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273 | |
863 | ||
3af48b5b | 864 | * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also |
457b559e UD |
865 | handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. |
866 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3af48b5b | 867 | |
3142b1ac UD |
868 | * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. |
869 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
870 | ||
871b9158 | 871 | * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. |
1e528c6e UD |
872 | |
873 | * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. | |
3af48b5b | 874 | |
3142b1ac UD |
875 | * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate |
876 | option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results | |
877 | of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some | |
457b559e | 878 | site might have problems with the default behavior. |
3142b1ac UD |
879 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
880 | ||
07bfff20 | 881 | * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the |
3142b1ac UD |
882 | SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide |
883 | to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. | |
884 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
885 | ||
07bfff20 UD |
886 | * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by |
887 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
888 | ||
871b9158 UD |
889 | * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. |
890 | ||
d5ba53f9 UD |
891 | * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and |
892 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
893 | ||
ad2a3c07 UD |
894 | * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. |
895 | ||
88cc61e8 UD |
896 | * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, |
897 | or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. | |
2e92188d | 898 | \f |
137e6462 UD |
899 | Version 2.4 |
900 | ||
901 | * More overflow detection functions. | |
902 | ||
903 | * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, | |
904 | IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. | |
1aa4e40a | 905 | |
4973cbe5 UD |
906 | More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, |
907 | IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, | |
908 | IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, | |
909 | IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, | |
910 | IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed | |
911 | by Masahide Washizawa. | |
912 | ||
1aa4e40a UD |
913 | * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using |
914 | LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
da0eaa47 RM |
915 | |
916 | * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no | |
917 | longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. | |
918 | For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we | |
919 | recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. | |
4973cbe5 | 920 | |
35129bc0 RM |
921 | * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, |
922 | but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. | |
923 | ||
924 | * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. | |
925 | ||
926 | * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, | |
927 | futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, | |
928 | renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. | |
929 | ||
930 | * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, | |
931 | inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. | |
932 | ||
933 | * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, | |
934 | for compatibility with some other systems. | |
935 | ||
936 | * Timezone data updated to 2006b version. | |
137e6462 | 937 | \f |
e6a9beca RM |
938 | Version 2.3.6 |
939 | ||
940 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
941 | ||
942 | 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, | |
943 | 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, | |
944 | 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, | |
945 | 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, | |
946 | 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, | |
947 | 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 | |
948 | ||
949 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
950 | ||
951 | * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. | |
952 | ||
953 | * Timezone data updated to 2005m version. | |
954 | \f | |
da232bf9 RM |
955 | Version 2.3.5 |
956 | ||
957 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
958 | ||
959 | 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, | |
960 | 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, | |
961 | 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, | |
962 | 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 | |
963 | ||
964 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
965 | \f | |
a55bda85 UD |
966 | Version 2.3.4 |
967 | ||
968 | * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. | |
969 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
8a1f658b UD |
970 | |
971 | * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded. | |
972 | For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes. | |
973 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
974 | ||
975 | * nscd can now perform SELinux checks. | |
976 | Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>. | |
977 | ||
0325dd20 | 978 | * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed |
8a1f658b UD |
979 | efficiently. |
980 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
981 | ||
982 | * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when | |
983 | compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception | |
984 | handling data. | |
985 | ||
986 | * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when | |
987 | it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate | |
0325dd20 | 988 | the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
8a1f658b UD |
989 | |
990 | * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int | |
0325dd20 UD |
991 | lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
992 | ||
993 | * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate | |
994 | namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course, | |
995 | like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically | |
996 | linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
997 | ||
998 | * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions | |
999 | were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by | |
1000 | Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible. | |
720817e7 RM |
1001 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. |
1002 | ||
1003 | * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that | |
1004 | have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from | |
1005 | the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers. | |
1006 | These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module | |
1007 | that is usable as an add-on when building the library. | |
a55bda85 | 1008 | \f |
3a601d31 RM |
1009 | Version 2.3.3 |
1010 | ||
45e4762c RM |
1011 | * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to |
1012 | interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface. | |
1013 | ||
3a601d31 RM |
1014 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64; |
1015 | implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath. | |
925c3c5c | 1016 | |
69be6aaf | 1017 | * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information. |
925c3c5c UD |
1018 | Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk. |
1019 | ||
1020 | * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF. | |
1021 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
97fd3a30 UD |
1022 | |
1023 | * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly | |
1024 | by Roland McGrath. | |
1025 | ||
c5af724c | 1026 | * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek |
97fd3a30 UD |
1027 | and Ulrich Drepper. |
1028 | ||
1029 | * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to | |
1030 | RFC 3484. | |
3a601d31 | 1031 | \f |
747bf98e RM |
1032 | Version 2.3.2 |
1033 | ||
f87277f2 RM |
1034 | * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data |
1035 | were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. | |
1036 | Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' | |
1037 | object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. | |
1038 | The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> | |
1039 | create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function | |
1040 | `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so | |
1041 | parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added | |
1042 | in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. | |
1043 | ||
747bf98e RM |
1044 | * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which |
1045 | have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> | |
1046 | and are now also available on the Hurd. | |
1047 | ||
1048 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64. | |
d62507dd RM |
1049 | |
1050 | * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. | |
1051 | This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. | |
52a16e58 | 1052 | |
f87277f2 RM |
1053 | * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for |
1054 | PowerPC machines with no FPU. | |
1055 | ||
52a16e58 | 1056 | * fexecve is implemented on Linux. |
f9ad060c | 1057 | |
f87277f2 RM |
1058 | * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to |
1059 | specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. | |
9ef0a840 UD |
1060 | |
1061 | * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented | |
1062 | in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This | |
1063 | change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling | |
1064 | of weak definition in ld.so. | |
1065 | ||
1066 | * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived | |
1067 | at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately. | |
1068 | ||
1069 | * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The | |
1070 | AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled. | |
747bf98e | 1071 | \f |
03a2c647 | 1072 | Version 2.3 |
37fb1084 | 1073 | |
03a2c647 UD |
1074 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164 |
1075 | charsets. | |
1076 | ||
1077 | * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding | |
1078 | options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". | |
47e8b443 | 1079 | |
bb0ec5bd | 1080 | * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in |
47e8b443 | 1081 | the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. |
c17f665b UD |
1082 | |
1083 | * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional | |
1084 | tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. | |
8e57fc70 | 1085 | |
bb0ec5bd | 1086 | * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating |
91e6367e UD |
1087 | copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of |
1088 | the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
207b66ce UD |
1089 | |
1090 | * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based | |
1091 | on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. | |
3b0bdc72 | 1092 | |
bb0ec5bd | 1093 | * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant |
3b0bdc72 | 1094 | implementation of regex. |
02779eaa UD |
1095 | |
1096 | * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support | |
1097 | Unicode 3.2. | |
be45f421 | 1098 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
1099 | * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are |
1100 | not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. | |
be45f421 | 1101 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
1102 | * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF |
1103 | thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. | |
1104 | Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. | |
be45f421 UD |
1105 | |
1106 | * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, | |
f87277f2 | 1107 | EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. |
a753ffb2 RM |
1108 | |
1109 | * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': | |
1110 | BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. | |
1111 | Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath. | |
6a9340b5 UD |
1112 | |
1113 | * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale | |
1114 | archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
dd4f2115 UD |
1115 | |
1116 | * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions | |
1117 | inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath, | |
1118 | and Ulrich Drepper. | |
c843e065 RM |
1119 | |
1120 | * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux. | |
1121 | \f | |
45061a15 RM |
1122 | Version 2.2.6 |
1123 | ||
1124 | * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the | |
1125 | old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3). | |
1126 | ||
1127 | * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file | |
1128 | with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name. | |
03a2c647 | 1129 | \f |
a8ae31c2 UD |
1130 | Version 2.2.5 |
1131 | ||
76321a25 AJ |
1132 | * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the |
1133 | 128-bit long double format. | |
a8ae31c2 | 1134 | |
557a9213 UD |
1135 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, |
1136 | IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. | |
a8ae31c2 | 1137 | |
ad2e4f18 | 1138 | * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. |
a8ae31c2 | 1139 | |
7d0c5823 RM |
1140 | * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. |
1141 | ||
a8ae31c2 UD |
1142 | * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams |
1143 | as well. | |
1144 | ||
45061a15 RM |
1145 | * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils |
1146 | versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations. | |
8e57fc70 UD |
1147 | |
1148 | * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. | |
7d0c5823 | 1149 | \f |
33996419 AJ |
1150 | Version 2.2.4 |
1151 | ||
2995f70e | 1152 | * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh, |
aff17a50 | 1153 | asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format. |
8fee1bb0 UD |
1154 | |
1155 | * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to | |
1156 | support Unicode 3.1. | |
86dbe05e UD |
1157 | |
1158 | * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels. | |
1159 | Patch by Isamu Hasegawa. | |
045fcd26 | 1160 | |
69d5f925 | 1161 | * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks. |
045fcd26 | 1162 | |
69d5f925 | 1163 | * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through |
045fcd26 UD |
1164 | iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file. |
1165 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1166 | ||
1167 | * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty | |
1168 | severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger. | |
1169 | ||
1170 | * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio | |
1171 | extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath. | |
129d706d UD |
1172 | |
1173 | * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries. | |
33996419 | 1174 | \f |
2ace5721 UD |
1175 | Version 2.2.3 |
1176 | ||
1746f2b0 | 1177 | * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and |
2ace5721 UD |
1178 | accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions |
1179 | in float, double, and long double format. | |
1180 | ||
f128331c | 1181 | * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc, |
b8750342 UD |
1182 | and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the |
1183 | 128-bit long double format. | |
07f951e4 | 1184 | |
e4d82761 UD |
1185 | * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added. |
1186 | The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv | |
1187 | <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis | |
1188 | <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>. | |
1189 | ||
2ace5721 UD |
1190 | * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed |
1191 | after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments. | |
1192 | No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
b8a8413c UD |
1193 | |
1194 | * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky | |
1195 | <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>. | |
a66f0958 UD |
1196 | |
1197 | * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
1198 | of functions for Linux/IA-64. | |
481b550f UD |
1199 | |
1200 | * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service | |
1201 | of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum | |
1202 | <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f128331c UD |
1203 | |
1204 | * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext | |
1205 | family of functions for Linux/S390. | |
232fdf8c UD |
1206 | |
1207 | * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
1208 | of functions for Linux/x86. | |
eacde9d0 UD |
1209 | |
1210 | * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications. | |
2ace5721 | 1211 | \f |
306eeae5 UD |
1212 | Version 2.2.2 |
1213 | ||
464d97ec | 1214 | * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir |
306eeae5 UD |
1215 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The |
1216 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
1217 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
1218 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
1219 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
1220 | other headers. | |
464d97ec UD |
1221 | |
1222 | * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly. | |
1223 | Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>. | |
1224 | ||
1225 | * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles | |
1226 | charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be | |
1227 | provided and the conversion happens based on this data. | |
1228 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1229 | ||
1230 | * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed | |
1231 | locales. While | |
1232 | ||
1233 | locale -a | |
1234 | ||
1235 | only lists the names of the supported locales | |
1236 | ||
1237 | locale -a --verbose | |
1238 | ||
1239 | provides details such as country, language, and codeset name. | |
1240 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
306eeae5 | 1241 | \f |
d2defdc4 UD |
1242 | Version 2.2.1 |
1243 | ||
1244 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
1245 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
1246 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
1247 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
1248 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
1249 | ||
1250 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
1251 | ||
1252 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
1253 | ||
1254 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
aea6353a UD |
1255 | |
1256 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
1257 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
1258 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
234669e2 UD |
1259 | |
1260 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
1261 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
1262 | ||
1263 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
1264 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
1265 | ||
1266 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
d2defdc4 | 1267 | \f |
2e92188d UD |
1268 | Version 2.2 |
1269 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
1270 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
1271 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
1272 | is in progress. | |
1273 | ||
2e92188d UD |
1274 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
1275 | ||
793bd4d9 | 1276 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 1277 | |
47b853e8 UD |
1278 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
1279 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
1280 | ||
0013b2b1 UD |
1281 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1282 | ||
abbffdf9 | 1283 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 1284 | |
6e8afc1c UD |
1285 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
1286 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
1287 | ||
591e1ffb UD |
1288 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
1289 | ||
d3436b3c UD |
1290 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
1291 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
1292 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
2588068b UD |
1293 | |
1294 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
1295 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
1296 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 1297 | |
a00c3ca9 | 1298 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
d3436b3c UD |
1299 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
1300 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
1301 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
1302 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
1303 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
1304 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
1305 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
1306 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
1307 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
1308 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1309 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
1310 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
1311 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
1312 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
1313 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1314 | ||
69173865 UD |
1315 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
1316 | ||
1317 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
1318 | ||
37fb8add UD |
1319 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
1320 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
1321 | ||
594cee6c UD |
1322 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
1323 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
1324 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
1325 | ||
594cee6c UD |
1326 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1327 | ||
1328 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
1329 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
1330 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
1331 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
1332 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
1333 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
1334 | implemented for Linux. | |
1335 | ||
3107c0c5 UD |
1336 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
1337 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
1338 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
1339 | versions. | |
1340 | ||
d2830ba4 UD |
1341 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
1342 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
1343 | ||
8f3f1e09 | 1344 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
6f2a8167 UD |
1345 | \f |
1346 | Version 2.1.3 | |
1347 | ||
1348 | * bug fixes | |
1349 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
1350 | \f |
1351 | Version 2.1.2 | |
1352 | ||
1353 | * bug fixes | |
1354 | ||
28f540f4 | 1355 | \f |
e518937a UD |
1356 | Version 2.1.1 |
1357 | ||
27995311 UD |
1358 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
1359 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
1360 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
1361 | ||
407d26b7 | 1362 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
1363 | |
1364 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
1365 | ||
407d26b7 | 1366 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 1367 | |
407d26b7 | 1368 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
1369 | |
1370 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 1371 | |
554b8800 UD |
1372 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
1373 | ||
1374 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
1375 | ||
e518937a | 1376 | \f |
c84142e8 UD |
1377 | Version 2.1 |
1378 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
1379 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
1380 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
1381 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
1382 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
1383 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
1384 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
1385 | ||
c84142e8 | 1386 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 1387 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 1388 | |
1fb05e3d | 1389 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
c84142e8 UD |
1390 | symbol level. |
1391 | ||
1392 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
1393 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 1394 | |
cbdee279 | 1395 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
377a515b UD |
1396 | |
1397 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 1398 | numbers. |
377a515b | 1399 | |
cbdee279 | 1400 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 1401 | |
48869012 UD |
1402 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
1403 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 1404 | |
813f4f4d UD |
1405 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
1406 | library. | |
1407 | ||
e61abf83 | 1408 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
1409 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
1410 | ||
1411 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
1412 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 1413 | |
a5a0310d | 1414 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 1415 | |
a5a0310d UD |
1416 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
1417 | ||
1418 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 1419 | |
440d13e2 | 1420 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
cbdee279 UD |
1421 | |
1422 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
1423 | ||
1424 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
2eb45444 UD |
1425 | |
1426 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 1427 | |
48244d09 UD |
1428 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
1429 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
1430 | ||
1431 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
1432 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
1433 | ||
0dee6738 | 1434 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 1435 | |
0dee6738 | 1436 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 1437 | |
0dee6738 | 1438 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 1439 | |
0dee6738 | 1440 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 1441 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1442 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
1443 | ||
1444 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
1445 | ||
1446 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 1447 | |
48244d09 UD |
1448 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
1449 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 1450 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 1451 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1452 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
1453 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
ea278354 UD |
1454 | |
1455 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
48869012 UD |
1456 | |
1457 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
20833331 UD |
1458 | |
1459 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
1460 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
1461 | ||
1462 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 1463 | |
62595351 UD |
1464 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
1465 | Bambrough. | |
1466 | ||
1467 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
1468 | latest draft standards. | |
1469 | ||
1770a20d UD |
1470 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
1471 | ||
48244d09 UD |
1472 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
1473 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 1474 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1475 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
62595351 UD |
1476 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
1477 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1478 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1479 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1480 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1481 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1482 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1483 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1484 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1485 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
e980ca92 UD |
1486 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
1487 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1488 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1489 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
1490 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
1491 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
1492 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1493 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1494 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1495 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1496 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1497 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1498 | capget NEW: kernel | |
1499 | capset NEW: kernel | |
1500 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1501 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1502 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1503 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1504 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1505 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1506 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1507 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1508 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1509 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1510 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1511 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1512 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1513 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1514 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 1515 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1516 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
1517 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1518 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1519 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1520 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1521 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1522 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1523 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1524 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1525 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1526 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1527 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1528 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
1529 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1530 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1531 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1532 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1533 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1534 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1535 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1536 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1537 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1538 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1539 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1540 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1541 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1542 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1543 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1544 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1545 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1546 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1547 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1548 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
1549 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1550 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1551 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1552 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1553 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1554 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1555 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1556 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1557 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1558 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1559 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1560 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1561 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1562 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1563 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1564 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
1565 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 1566 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1567 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
1568 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1569 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1570 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1571 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1572 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1573 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
1574 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
1575 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1576 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1577 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1578 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1579 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1580 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1581 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1582 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1583 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
1584 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1585 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
1586 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1587 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1588 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1589 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1590 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1591 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
1592 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1593 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
1594 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1595 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1596 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
1597 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1598 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1599 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1600 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1601 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1602 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1603 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1604 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1605 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 1606 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1607 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
1608 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
1609 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1610 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1611 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
1612 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
1613 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1614 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1615 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1616 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1617 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
1618 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
1619 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1620 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1621 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1622 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
1623 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
1624 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
1625 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
1626 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
1627 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
1628 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
1629 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
1630 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1631 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 1632 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1633 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
1634 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1635 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 UD |
1636 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
1637 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
1638 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
48244d09 UD |
1639 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
1640 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
1641 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
1642 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
1643 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 1644 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1645 | iconv NEW: iconv |
1646 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
1647 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
1648 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1649 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
1650 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1651 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1652 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
1653 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
1654 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
1655 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
1656 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 UD |
1657 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
1658 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1659 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
1660 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1661 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
1662 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
1663 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
1664 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
1665 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1666 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
1667 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1668 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1669 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1670 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1671 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1672 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1673 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1674 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1675 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1676 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1677 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1678 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1679 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1680 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1681 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
1682 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1683 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1684 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
1685 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
1686 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
1687 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1688 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1689 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1690 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1691 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1692 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1693 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
1694 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
1695 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
1696 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1697 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
1698 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
1699 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1700 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 1701 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1702 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
1703 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
1704 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
1705 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
1706 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
1707 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
1708 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
1709 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
1710 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
1711 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
1712 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1713 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1714 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
1715 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
1716 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
1717 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1718 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 1719 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1720 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
1721 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
1722 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
1723 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
1724 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1725 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1726 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1727 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1728 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1729 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1730 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
1731 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1732 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1733 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1734 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
1735 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
1736 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1737 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 1738 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1739 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
1740 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
1741 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1742 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
1743 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1744 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1745 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1746 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
1747 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
1748 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1749 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1750 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1751 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1752 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
1753 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
1754 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1755 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 1756 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1757 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
1758 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1759 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1760 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1761 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1762 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1763 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1764 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1765 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
1766 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1767 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1768 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1769 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1770 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
1771 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 1772 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 1773 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 1774 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1775 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 1776 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
1777 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
1778 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1779 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1780 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
1781 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1782 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1783 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1784 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1785 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
1786 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1787 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1788 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
1789 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
1790 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1791 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1792 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1793 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
1794 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1795 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1796 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1797 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1798 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1799 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
1800 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
1801 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 1802 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 1803 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 1804 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
1805 | \f |
1806 | Version 2.0.6 | |
1807 | ||
1808 | * more bug fixes | |
1809 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
1810 | \f |
1811 | Version 2.0.5 | |
1812 | ||
1813 | * more bug fixes | |
1814 | ||
1815 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
1816 | ||
1817 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
1818 | ||
1819 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
1820 | ||
1821 | * update of timezone data | |
1822 | \f | |
1823 | Version 2.0.4 | |
1824 | ||
1825 | * more bug fixes | |
1826 | \f | |
1827 | Version 2.0.3 | |
1828 | ||
1829 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 1830 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
1831 | Version 2.0.2 |
1832 | ||
1833 | * more bug fixes | |
1834 | ||
1835 | * add atoll function | |
1836 | ||
1837 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
1838 | |
1839 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
1840 | \f |
1841 | Version 2.0.1 | |
1842 | ||
1843 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
1844 | ||
1845 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
1846 | ||
1847 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
1848 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
1849 | ||
1850 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
1851 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 1852 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 1853 | |
d3669add RM |
1854 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
1855 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
1856 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
1857 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
1858 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
1859 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
1860 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
1861 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
1862 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
1863 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
1864 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
1865 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
1866 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
1867 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
1868 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
1869 | |
1870 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
1871 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
1872 | ||
1873 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
1874 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
1875 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
1876 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
1877 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
1878 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
1879 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
1880 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
1881 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
1882 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
1883 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 1884 | |
71733723 RM |
1885 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
1886 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
1887 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
1888 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
1889 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 1890 | |
f7eac6eb | 1891 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
1892 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
1893 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
1894 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
1895 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
1896 | ||
1897 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 1898 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
1899 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
1900 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
1901 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
1902 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
1903 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
1904 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
1905 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
1906 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
1907 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 1908 | |
49e522bf RM |
1909 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
1910 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
1911 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
1912 | ||
1913 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
1914 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
1915 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
1916 | ||
1917 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
1918 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
1919 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
1920 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
1921 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1922 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
1923 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
1924 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
1925 | ||
1926 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
1927 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
1928 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
1929 | ||
49e522bf RM |
1930 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
1931 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
1932 | ||
f7eac6eb | 1933 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 1934 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 1935 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
1936 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
1937 | ||
1938 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
1939 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
1940 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 1941 | |
71733723 | 1942 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
1943 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
1944 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
1945 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
1946 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
1947 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 1948 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 1949 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
1950 | |
1951 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
1952 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
1953 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
1954 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
1955 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
1956 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
1957 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
1958 | |
1959 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
1960 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
1961 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
1962 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
1963 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
1964 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
1965 | ||
1966 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
1967 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1968 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1969 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
1970 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
1971 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 1972 | |
28f540f4 RM |
1973 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
1974 | ||
1975 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
1976 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
1977 | their use is discouraged. | |
1978 | ||
1979 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
1980 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 1981 | |
22a1292a RM |
1982 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
1983 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
1984 | |
1985 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
1986 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
1987 | ||
1988 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
1989 | see <dirent.h>. | |
1990 | ||
1991 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
1992 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
1993 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
1994 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
1995 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
1996 | |
1997 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
1998 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
1999 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
2000 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
2001 | |
2002 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
2003 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
2004 | ||
2005 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
2006 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
2007 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
2008 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
2009 | number generator. | |
2010 | ||
2011 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
2012 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
2013 | ||
2014 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
2015 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
2016 | ||
71733723 | 2017 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 2018 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
2019 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
2020 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 2021 | |
d3669add RM |
2022 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
2023 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
2024 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
2025 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
2026 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
2027 | ||
2028 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
2029 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 2030 | |
c709e372 | 2031 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
2032 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
2033 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
2034 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
2035 | ||
2036 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
2037 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
2038 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
2039 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
2040 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
2041 | |
2042 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
2043 | constants. | |
2044 | ||
2045 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
2046 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
2047 | ||
2048 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
2049 | a given effective group ID. | |
2050 | ||
2051 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
2052 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
2053 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
2054 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
2055 | ||
2056 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 2057 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
2058 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
2059 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
2060 | doing the same thing. | |
2061 | ||
2062 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
2063 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
2064 | ||
2065 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 2066 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
2067 | |
2068 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
2069 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
2070 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
2071 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
2072 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 2073 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 2074 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
2075 | |
2076 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
2077 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
2078 | |
2079 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
2080 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
2081 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
2082 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
2083 | |
2084 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
2085 | ||
2086 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
2087 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
2088 | strings. | |
2089 | ||
2090 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
2091 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
2092 | |
2093 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
2094 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
2095 | ||
2096 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
2097 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
2098 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
2099 | ||
2100 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
2101 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
2102 | ||
2103 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
2104 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
2105 | specification. | |
2106 | ||
2107 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
2108 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
2109 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
2110 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
2111 | ||
2112 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
2113 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
2114 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
2115 | ||
2116 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
2117 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
2118 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
2119 | expression matcher. | |
2120 | ||
2121 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
2122 | functionality. | |
2123 | ||
2124 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
2125 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
2126 | ||
2127 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
2128 | ||
2129 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
2130 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
2131 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
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2132 | \f |
2133 | Version 1.09 | |
2134 | ||
2135 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
2136 | ||
2137 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
2138 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
2139 | ||
2140 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
2141 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
2142 | ||
2143 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
2144 | run without an operating system. | |
2145 | ||
2146 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
2147 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
2148 | ||
2149 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
2150 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
2151 | ||
2152 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
2153 | ||
2154 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
2155 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
2156 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
2157 | ||
2158 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
2159 | conventions. | |
2160 | ||
2161 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
2162 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
2163 | \f | |
2164 | Version 1.08 | |
2165 | ||
2166 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
2167 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
2168 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
2169 | ||
2170 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
2171 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
2172 | ||
2173 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
2174 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
2175 | ||
2176 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
2177 | ||
2178 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
2179 | ||
2180 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
2181 | compatibility. | |
2182 | ||
2183 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
2184 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
2185 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
2186 | ||
2187 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
2188 | ||
2189 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
2190 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
2191 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
2192 | ||
2193 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
2194 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
2195 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
2196 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
2197 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
2198 | on a block). | |
2199 | ||
2200 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
2201 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
2202 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
2203 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
2204 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
2205 | cross-compiler. | |
2206 | ||
2207 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
2208 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
2209 | \f | |
2210 | Version 1.07 | |
2211 | ||
2212 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
2213 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
2214 | ||
2215 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
2216 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
2217 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
2218 | ||
2219 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
2220 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
2221 | address of the last character written. | |
2222 | ||
2223 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
2224 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
2225 | ||
2226 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
2227 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
2228 | ||
2229 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
2230 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
2231 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
2232 | you dereference this pointer. | |
2233 | ||
2234 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
2235 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
2236 | ||
2237 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
2238 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
2239 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
2240 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
2241 | ||
2242 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
2243 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
2244 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
2245 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
2246 | \f | |
2247 | Version 1.06 | |
2248 | ||
2249 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
2250 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
2251 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
2252 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 2253 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
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2254 | |
2255 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
2256 | ||
2257 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
2258 | ||
2259 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
2260 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
2261 | ||
2262 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
2263 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
2264 | ||
2265 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
2266 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
2267 | ||
2268 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
2269 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
2270 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
2271 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
2272 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
2273 | ||
2274 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
2275 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
2276 | ||
2277 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
2278 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
2279 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
2280 | malloc'd string. | |
2281 | ||
2282 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
2283 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
2284 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
2285 | ||
2286 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
2287 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
2288 | \f | |
2289 | Version 1.05 | |
2290 | ||
2291 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
2292 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
2293 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
2294 | ||
2295 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
2296 | characters. | |
2297 | ||
2298 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
2299 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
2300 | ||
2301 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
2302 | \f | |
2303 | Version 1.04 | |
2304 | ||
2305 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
2306 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
2307 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
2308 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
2309 | ||
2310 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
2311 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
2312 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
2313 | ||
2314 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
2315 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
2316 | ||
2317 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
2318 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
2319 | made itself into a shared library. | |
2320 | ||
2321 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
2322 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
2323 | ||
2324 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
2325 | with limited length. | |
2326 | ||
2327 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
2328 | ||
2329 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
2330 | ||
2331 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
2332 | ||
2333 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
2334 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
2335 | ||
2336 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
2337 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
2338 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
2339 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
2340 | ||
2341 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
2342 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
2343 | ||
2344 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
2345 | ||
2346 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
2347 | things to your strings. | |
2348 | ||
2349 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
2350 | ||
2351 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
2352 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
2353 | supporting those systems. | |
2354 | ||
2355 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
2356 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
2357 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
2358 | configuration files. | |
2359 | ||
2360 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
2361 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
2362 | ||
2363 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
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2364 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
2365 | in <strings.h>.) | |
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2366 | |
2367 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
2368 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
2369 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
2370 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
2371 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
2372 | required storage is not available. | |
2373 | ||
2374 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
2375 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
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2376 | |
2377 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
2378 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
2379 | \f | |
2380 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
2381 | Copyright information: | |
2382 | ||
88726d48 | 2383 | Copyright (C) 1992-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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2384 | |
2385 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
2386 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
2387 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
2388 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
2389 | ||
2390 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
2391 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
2392 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
2393 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
2394 | \f | |
2395 | Local variables: | |
2396 | version-control: never | |
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