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+Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
- from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
+ from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
the GNU C Library.
* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
the GNU C Library.
+* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
+ now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
+ Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
+ will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
+ mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
+ see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
+ just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
+ will not.
+
+ Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
+ defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
+ many years.
+
* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
problem.
* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
- fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions,
- the femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE macro.
+ fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
+ femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
- Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
+ - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
+ fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
+ fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
+
+ - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
+ FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
+
+ - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
+ fminmagf, fminmagl.
+
- Comparison macros: iseqsig.
- Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
- Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
- NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
- setpayloadf, setpayloadl.
+ setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
+* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
+ It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
+ Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
+
+* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
+ intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
+ the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
+ are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
+ effects of the memory clear).
+
* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
if they are compiled or used with those options.
+* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
+ have been added.
+
+* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
+ bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
+ file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
+ network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
+ as large as several megabytes.
+
* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
been removed.
“no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
“ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
-* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT
+* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
Internet.
-* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG defined
- in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated. They were already
- unimplemented.
+* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
+ RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
+ They were already unimplemented.
+
+* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
+ _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
+ removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
+ 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
<arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
'gcc/config.gcc'.
+* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
+ structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
+ printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
+ using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
+
+* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
+ program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
+ flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
+ instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
+
Security related changes:
- On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
+* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
(denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
+* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
+ dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
+ was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
+ question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
+ (CVE-2015-5180)
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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