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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.31
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10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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19* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
20 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
21 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
22 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
23
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24Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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26* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
27 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
28 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
29 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
30 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
31 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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33Changes to build and runtime requirements:
34
35 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
36
37Security related changes:
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39 [Add security related changes here]
40
41The following bugs are resolved with this release:
42
43 [The release manager will add the list generated by
44 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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47Version 2.30
48
49Major new features:
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51* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
52 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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53 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
54
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55* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
56 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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58* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
59 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
60 to the callback function.
61
51ea67d5 62* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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64* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
65 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
66 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
67
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68* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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70* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
71 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
72 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
73 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
74 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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76* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
77 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
78 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
79 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
80 link time reference, is gone.
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82* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
83 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
84 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
85 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
86 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
87 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
88 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
89 the clock choice at initialization time).
90
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91* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
92 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
93 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
94
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95Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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97* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
98 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
99 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
100 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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101 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
102 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
103 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
104 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
105 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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107* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
108 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
109 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
110 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
111 since glibc 2.17.
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113* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
114 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
115
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116* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
117 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
118
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119* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
120 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
121
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122* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
123 BIND_NOW flag.
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125* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
126 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
127 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
128
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129* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
130 header have been removed.
131
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132* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
133 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
134 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
135 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
136
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137Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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139* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
140
141 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
142 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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144Security related changes:
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146 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
147 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
148 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
149 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
150 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
151 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
152 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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154 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
155 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
156 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
157
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158The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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160 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
161 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
162 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
163 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
164 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
165 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
166 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
167 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
168 invalid input drops valid char
169 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
170 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
171 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
172 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
173 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
174 malloc.h.
175 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
176 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
177 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
178 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
179 functions
180 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
181 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
182 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
183 for long double = double
184 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
185 long double = double
186 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
187 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
188 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
189 long timeouts
190 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
191 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
192 checking for NULL.
193 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
194 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
195 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
196 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
197 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
198 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
199 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
200 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
201 not the default "nor"
202 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
203 false positives, change to modern flexible array
204 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
205 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
206 compiler barriers.
207 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
208 unnecessary librt dependencies
209 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
210 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
211 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
212 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
213 unsorted chunk
214 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
215 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
216 to R_SPARC_H44
217 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
218 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
219 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
220 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
221 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
222 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
223 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
224 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
225 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
226 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
227 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
228 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
229 was not used
230 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
231 tests
232 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
233 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
234 time_t changes
235 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
236 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
237 kernels and break testing
238 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
239 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
240 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
241 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
242 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
243 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
244 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
245 -O3 -march=skylake
246 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
247 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
248 crash
249 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
250 linked glibc
251 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
252 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
253 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
254 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
255 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
256 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
257 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
258 always implemented in the same library
259 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
260 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
261 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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265Version 2.29
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267Major new features:
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269* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
270 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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272* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
273 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
274 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
275 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
276 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
277 configured location.
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424c4f60 279* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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281* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
282 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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284* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
285 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
286 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
287 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
288 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
289 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
290 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
291 process actually does not use HTM).
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293* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
294 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
295 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
296 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
297 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
298 of the same name.
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300* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
301 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
302 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 303 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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304 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
305
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306* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
307 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
308 supported:
309 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
310 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
311
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312* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
313 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
314 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
315 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
316 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
317 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
318 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
319
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320* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
321 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
322 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
323
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324Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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326* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
327 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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329* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
330 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
331 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
332 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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334* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
335 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
336 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
337 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
338 structures.
339
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341 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
342 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
343 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
344 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
345 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
346
347 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
348 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
349 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
350 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
351 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
352
353 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
354 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
355 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
356
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357Changes to build and runtime requirements:
358
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361* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
362 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
363
364 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
365 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
366
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367Security related changes:
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369 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
370 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
371 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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373 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
374 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
375 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
376 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
377 Reported by H.J. Lu.
378
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379 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
380 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
381 or command injection issues in applications.
382
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383The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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385 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
386 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
387 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
388 thousands
389 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
390 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
391 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
392 --param options)
393 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
394 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
395 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
396 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
397 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
398 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
399 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
400 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
401 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
402 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
403 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
404 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
405 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
406 pointer argument is non-NULL
407 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
408 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
409 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
410 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
411 multithreads call popen
412 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
413 and pthread_create fails.
414 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
415 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
416 constructor
417 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
418 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
419 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
420 source tree
421 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
422 float
423 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
424 one error
425 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
426 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
427 linker
428 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
429 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
430 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
431 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
432 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
433 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
434 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
435 filesystems
436 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
437 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
438 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
439 functions
440 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
441 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
442 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
443 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
444 have wrong type
445 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
446 wrong type
447 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
448 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
449 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
450 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
451 threads
452 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
453 start.S
454 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
455 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
456 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
457 powerpc64le
458 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
459 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
460 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
461 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
462 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
463 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
464 strftime
465 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
466 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
467 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
468 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
469 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
470 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
471 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
472 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
473 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
474 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
475 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
476 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
477 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
478 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
479 tcache size
480 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
481 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
482 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
483 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
484 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
485 (CVE-2018-19591)
486 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
487 nearest rounding mode
488 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
489 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
490 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
491 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
492 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
493 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
494 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
495 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
496 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
497 error
498 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
499 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
500 using GCC 8
501 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
502 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
503 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
504 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
505 ppc64le
506 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
507 expected result
508 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
509 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
510 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
511 sigaltstack
512 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
513 answers will be rejected)
514 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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519Major new features:
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522 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
523 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
524 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
525 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
526 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
527 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
528 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
529 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
530 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
531 archive or binary locales.
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534 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
535 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
536 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
537 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
538 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
539 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
540 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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542 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
543 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
544 validated for i686.
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547 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
548 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
549 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
550 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
551 field) to indicate such support is required.
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554 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
555 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
556
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558 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
559
560 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
561 fMxaddfNx functions.
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563 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
564 fMxsubfNx functions.
565
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566 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
567 fMxmulfNx functions.
568
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569 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
570 fMxdivfNx functions.
571
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df467d22 573 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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576 and Kashubian.
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e607a352 579 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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581* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
582 patches.
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585 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
586 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
587 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
588 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
589 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
590 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
591 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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594 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
595 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
596 the fstatat64 function.
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598* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
599 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
600 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
601 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
602 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
603 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
604 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
605 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
606 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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609 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
610 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
611 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
612 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
613 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
614 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
615 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
616 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
617 results in a load failure now.
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620 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
621 <threads.h>:
622
623 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
624 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
625
626 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
627 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
628
629 - call_once for function call synchronization.
630
631 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
632 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
633
634 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
635
636 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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640* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
641 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
642 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
643
644* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
645 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
646 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
647 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
648 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
649 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
650
651* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
652 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
653 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
654 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
655 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
656 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
657 (Bug #1190.)
658
659* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
660 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
661 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
662 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
663 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
664 further explanation.
665
666 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
667 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
668 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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670* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
671
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672* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
673 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
674 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
675
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676* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
677 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
678 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
679 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
680
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681* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
682 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
683 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
684 for this function instead.
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687 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
688 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
689
690* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
691 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
692 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
693 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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696 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
697 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
698 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
699 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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701* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
702 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
703 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
704 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
705 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
706 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
707 such as libgcrypt.
708
709* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
710 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
711 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
712 enabled.
713
714* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
715 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
716 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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719 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
720 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
721 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
722 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
723 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
724
725 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
726 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
727 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
728 behavior in a future release.
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734Security related changes:
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737 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
738 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
739 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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741 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
742 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
743
744 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
745 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
746 Izbyshev.
747
748 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
749 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
750 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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754 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
755 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
756 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
757 when __WORDSIZE != 64
758 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
759 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
760 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
761 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
762 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
763 14651
764 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
765 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
766 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
767 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
768 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
769 conversion is given
770 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
771 date
772 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
773 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
774 scope with -O1 and higher
775 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
776 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
777 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
778 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
779 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
780 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
781 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
782 horrible machine code)
783 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
784 last constant.
785 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
786 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
787 symbols
788 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
789 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
790 defined
791 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
792 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
793 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
794 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
795 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
796 fpscr.c'
797 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
798 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
799 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
800 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
801 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
802 the base address
803 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
804 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
805 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
806 open_verify
807 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
808 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
809 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
810 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
811 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
812 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
813 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
814 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
815 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
816 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
817 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
818 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
819 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
820 dlopen
821 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
822 AT_SECURE=1
823 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
824 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
825 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
826 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
827 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
828 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
829 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
830 for Spanish with CLDR
831 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
832 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
833 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
834 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
835 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
836 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
837 es_BO
838 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
839 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
840 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
841 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
842 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
843 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
844 dlopen failures
845 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
846 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
847 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
848 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
849 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
850 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
851 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
852 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
853 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
854 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
855 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
856 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
857 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
858 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
859 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
860 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
861 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
862 makecontext
863 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
864 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
865 required
866 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
867 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
868 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
869 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
870 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
871 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
872 disabled
873 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
874 failure
875 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
876 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
877 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
878 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
879 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
880 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
881 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
882 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
883 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
884 and libc build with -Os)
885 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
886 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
887 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
888 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
889 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
890 that changes /etc/passwd
891 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
892 (CVE-2018-11237)
893 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
894 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
895 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
896 posix/regcomp.c
897 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
898 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
899 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
900 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
901 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
902 AT_SECURE
903 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
904 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
905 parser.c
906 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
907 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
908 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
909 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
910 directed rounding
911 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
912 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
913 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
914 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
915 lookup
916 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
917 interposition
918 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
919 DSO boundaries.
920 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
921 <linux/time.h>
922 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
923 checking
924 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
925 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
926 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
927 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
928 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
929 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
930 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
931 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
932 processors
933 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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936Version 2.27
937
938Major new features:
939
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941 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 942 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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943 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
944 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
945 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
946 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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947 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
948 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 949
ac817e08 950* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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951 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
952 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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954* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
955
4cf82d23 956* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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958* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
959 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
960 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
961 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
962 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
963 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
964 from a security and performance perspective.
965
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966* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
967 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
968 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
969 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
970
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972 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
973 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
974 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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975 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
976
a23aa5b7 977* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 978 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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979 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
980 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
981 _Float128.
982
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983* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
984 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
985 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 986
4bab0224 987* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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989* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
990 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
991 pkey_get.
992
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993* The copy_file_range function was added.
994
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995* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
996
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997* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
998 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
999 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1000
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1001* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1002 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1003 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1004 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1005 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1006 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1007 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1008
1009 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1010 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1011 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1012 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1013 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1014 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1015 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1016
1017 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1018 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1019 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1020 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1021 respectively.
1022
1023 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1024 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1025 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1026 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1027
1028 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1029 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1030 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1031
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1032 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1033 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1034 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1037 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1038 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1039
1040 - rv64imac lp64
1041 - rv64imafdc lp64
1042 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1043
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1044Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1045
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1046* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1047 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1048 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1049 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1050 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1051 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1052 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1053 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1054 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1055 fix this.
1056
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1057* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1058 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1059 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1060
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1061* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1062 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1063 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1064 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1065 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1066 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1067 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1068 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1069 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1070 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1071 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1072 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1073 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1074 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1075 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1076 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1077 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1078 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1079 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1080 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1081 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1082 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1083 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1084 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1085 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1086 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1087
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1089 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1091* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1092 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1093 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1094 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1095 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1096 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1097 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1098
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1099* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1100 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1101 exp10l for these functions instead.
1102
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1103* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1104 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1105 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1106
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1107* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1108 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1109 ignored.
1110
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1111* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1112 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1113 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1114 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1115
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1116* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1117 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1118
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1119* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1120 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1122* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1123 programs.
1124
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1125* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1126
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1127* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1128 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1129 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1130 instead.
1131
1132 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1133 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1134 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1135 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1136 use, but predates the bits convention.
1137
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1139
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1140* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1141 subdirectory.
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1143Security related changes:
1144
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1145 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1146 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1147 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1148 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1149 script.)
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1151 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1152 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1153 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1154 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1156 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1157 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1158 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1159 of service.
1160
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1161 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1162 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1163 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1164
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1165 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1166 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1167 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1168 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1169
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1170 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1171 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1172 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1173 Qualys.
1174
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1175 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1176 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1177 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1178 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1179 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1180
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1181 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1182 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1183 current directory.
1184
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1185 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1186 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1187 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1188
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1189 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1190 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1191 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1192
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1193 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1194 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1195 small, instead of NULL.
1196
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1199 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1200 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1201 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1202 locale
1203 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1204 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1205 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1206 cases
1207 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1208 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1209 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1210 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1211 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1212 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1213 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1214 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1215 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1216 "Bangla"
1217 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1218 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1219 width Latin characters
1220 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1221 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1222 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1223 letters
1224 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1225 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1226 (CVE-2009-5064)
1227 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1228 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1229 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1230 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1231 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1232 if malloc succeeded
1233 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1234 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1235 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1236 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1237 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1238 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1239 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1240 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1241 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1242 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1243 U+309A
1244 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1245 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1246 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1247 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1248 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1249 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1250 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1251 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1252 for Nicaragua
1253 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1254 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1255 are not found.
1256 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1257 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1258 access
1259 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1260 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1261 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1262 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1263 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1264 __regcall calling convention
1265 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1266 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1267 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1268 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1269 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1270 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1271 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1272 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1273 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1274 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1275 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1276 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1277 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1278 locale
1279 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1280 protector=all
1281 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1282 wcwidth
1283 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1284 consistency check failures
1285 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1286 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1287 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1288 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1289 PIE
1290 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1291 locales
1292 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1293 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1294 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1295 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1296 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1297 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1298 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1299 on memory allocation failure
1300 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1301 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1302 the suspect)
1303 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1304 default (i386)
1305 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1306 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1307 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1308 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1309 instead of EAI_NODATA
1310 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1311 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1312 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1313 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1314 implementation
1315 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1316 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1317 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1318 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1319 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1320 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1321 allocation in syscall loops)
1322 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1323 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1324 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1325 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1326 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1327 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1328 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1329 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1330 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1331 occur with -O3
1332 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1333 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1334 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1335 amounts)
1336 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1337 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1338 niu_NZ
1339 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1340 checks
1341 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1342 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1343 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1344 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1345 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1346 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1347 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1348 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1349 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1350 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1351 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1352 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1353 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1354 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1355 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1356 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1357 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1358 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1359 parsing after OOM
1360 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1361 object
1362 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1363 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1364 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1365 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1366 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1367 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1368 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1369 ppc64le
1370 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1371 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1372 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1373 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1374 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1375 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1376 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1377 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1378 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1379 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1380 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1381 math_force_eval
1382 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1383 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1384 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1385 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1386 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1387 the svid compat wrapper
1388 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1389 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1390 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1391 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1392 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1393 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1394 --verbose.
1395 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1396 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1397 to 2.26
1398 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1399 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1400 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1401 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1402 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1403 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1404 (CVE-2017-15804)
1405 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1406 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1407 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1408 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1409 failure."
1410 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1411 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1412 -m32
1413 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1414 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1415 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1416 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1417 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1418 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1419 inside the ASCII printable range
1420 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1421 -mlong-double-64
1422 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1423 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1424 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1425 Internet
1426 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1427 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1428 backslash
1429 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1430 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1431 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1432 heaps in an arena
1433 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1434 networking interface
1435 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1436 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1437 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1438 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1439 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1440 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1441 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1442 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1443 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1444 order
1445 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1446 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1447 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1448 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1449 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1450 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1451 same as for Croatian
1452 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1453 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1454 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1455 for initial thread"
1456 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1457 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1458 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1459 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1460 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1461 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1462 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1463 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1464 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1465 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1466 modified in case of success
1467 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1468 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1469 success
1470 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1471 stack-protector=all
1472 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1473 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1474 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1475 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1476 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1477 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1478 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1479 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1480 adding it on top
1481 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1482 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1483 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1484 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1485 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1486 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1487 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1488 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1489 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1490 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1491 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1492 elision and tunables
1493 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1494 "invalid" exception
1495 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1496 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1497 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1498 exception
1499 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1500 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1501 power4
1502 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1503 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1504 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1505 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1506 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1507 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1508 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1509 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1510 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1513Version 2.26
1514
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1515Major new features:
1516
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1517* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1518 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1519 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1520 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1521 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1522 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1523 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1524
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1525* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1526 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1527 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1528 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1529 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1530 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1531 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1533* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1534 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1535 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1536
2b2ccd0c 1537* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1539 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1540 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1541 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1543 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1544 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1545 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1546 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1547 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1549 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1550 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1551 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1553* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1554 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1556* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1557 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1558 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1559 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1561* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1562 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1563 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1564 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1566* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1567 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1568 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1569 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1571* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1572 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1573 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1574
2b2ccd0c 1575* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1576 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1577 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1578 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1579
2b2ccd0c 1580 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1581 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1582 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1583 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1584 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1585
1586 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1587 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1588 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1589 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1590 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1591 interfaces should be used instead.
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1593Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1594
1595* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1596 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1597 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1598 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1599 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1600 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1601 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1602 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1603
1604* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1605 removed.
1606
1607* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1608 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1609 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1610 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1611
1612* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1613 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1614 default.
1615
1616 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1617 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1618 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1619 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1620 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1622 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1623 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1624 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1625 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1626
1627* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1628 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1629 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1630 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1631
1632* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1633 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1635* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1636 exported by accident.
1637
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1638* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1639 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1640 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1641
1642* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1643 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1644 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1645 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1646
1647* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1648
1649* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1650
1651* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1652 free instead.
1653
1654* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1655 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1656
1657* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1658 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1659
1660* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1661 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1662 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1663 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1664 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1665 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1666 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1667 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1668
1669* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1670 synced with the kernel:
1671
1672 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1673 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1674
1675 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1676 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1677 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1678
1679 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1680 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1681
1682Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1683
1684* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1685 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1686 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1687
7e368000 1688* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1690* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1691 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1692
1693 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1694 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1695 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1696 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1697 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1700
e14a2772 1701* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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1702 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1703
1704* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1705 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1706
1707* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1708 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1709 (CVE-2010-3192).
1710
1711* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1712 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1714The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1716 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1717 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1718 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1719 fields
1720 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1721 (CVE-2010-3192)
1722 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1723 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1724 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1725 ld.bfd is available
1726 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1727 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1728 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1729 x86 and other generic code
1730 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1731 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1732 incorrect
1733 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1734 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1735 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1736 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1737 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1738 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1739 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1740 resolver
1741 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1742 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1743 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1744 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1745 chillu characters
1746 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1747 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1748 receiving data
1749 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1750 whitespace
1751 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1752 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1753 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1754 for Peru
1755 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1756 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1757 failures consistently
1758 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1759 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1760 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1761 frame-pointer on i386
1762 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1763 register
1764 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1765 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1766 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1767 generic c code is used
1768 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1769 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1770 around 4000
1771 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1772 (CVE-2017-12133)
1773 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1774 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1775 with -lieee
1776 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1777 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1778 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1779 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1780 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1781 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1782 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1783 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1784 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1785 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1786 remove()
1787 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1788 checked for errors.
1789 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1790 new posix_spawn implementation
1791 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1792 leads to lower CPU frequency
1793 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1794 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1795 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1796 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1797 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1798 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1799 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1800 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1801 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1802 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1803 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1804 not support gethostbyname4_r
1805 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1806 switching
1807 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1808 arenas
1809 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1810 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1811 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1812 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1813 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1814 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1815 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1816 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1817 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1818 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1819 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1820 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1821 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1822 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1823 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1824 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1825 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1826 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1827 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1828 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1829 retry value
1830 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1831 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1832 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1833 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1834 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1835 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1836 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1837 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1838 [21537] libc:
1839 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1840 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1841 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1842 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1843 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1844 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1845 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1846 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1847 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1848 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1849 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1850 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1851 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1852 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1853 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1854 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1855 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1856 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1857 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1858 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1859 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1860 issue on x86-64
1861 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1862 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1863 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1864 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1865 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1866 construction
1867 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1868 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1869 between_2_3
1870 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1871 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1872 conditions
1873 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1874 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1875 Hindi Locale
1876 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1877 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1878 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1879 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1880 locale
1881 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1882 leading to relocation crash
1883 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1884 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1885 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1886 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1887 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1888 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1889 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1890 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1891 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1892 locale
1893 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1894 locale
1895 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1896 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1897 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1898 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1899 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1900 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1901 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1902 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1903 strings
1904 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1905 protector=all
1906 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1907 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1908 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1909 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1910 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1911 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1912 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1913 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1914 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1915 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1916 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1917 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1918 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1919 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1920 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1921 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1922 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1923 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1924 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1925 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1926 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1927 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1928 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1929 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1930 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1931 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1932 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1933 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1934 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1935 with unicode 9.0
1936 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1937 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1938 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1939 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1940 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1944
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1945* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1946 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1947 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1948 Library.
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1950* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1951 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1952 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1953 the GNU C Library.
1954
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1955* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1956 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1957 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1958 the GNU C Library.
1959
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1960* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1961 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1962 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1963 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1964 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1965 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1966 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1967 will not.
1968
1969 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1970 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1971 many years.
1972
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1973* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1974 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1975 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1976
1977 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1978 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1979 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1980 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1981 problem.
1982
ec94343f 1983* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1984 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1985 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1986
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1987* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1988 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1989 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1990 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1991 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1992 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1993 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1994 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1995 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1996 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1997 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1998 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 1999
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2000* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2001
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2002 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2003
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2004 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2005 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2006 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2007
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2008 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2009 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2010
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2011 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2012 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2013
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2014 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2015
29cb9293 2016 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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2018 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2019 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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2021 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2022
eb3c12c7 2023 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2024 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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2026* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2027 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2028
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2029* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2030 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2031 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2032
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2033* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2034 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2035 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2036 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2037 effects of the memory clear).
2038
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2039* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2040 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2041 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2042 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2043
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2044* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2045 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2046 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2047 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2048 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2049 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2050
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2051* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2052 have been added.
2053
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2054* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2055 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2056 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2057 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2058 as large as several megabytes.
2059
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2060* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2061 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2062 been removed.
2063
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2064* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2065 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2066 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2067 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2068 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2069 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2070 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2071
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2072* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2073 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2074 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2075 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2076
099191b1 2077* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2078 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2079 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2080 Internet.
2081
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2082* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2083 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2084 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2085
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2086* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2087 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2088 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2089 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2090
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2091* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2092 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2093 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2094 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2095 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2096
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2097* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2098 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2099 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2100 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2101 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2102
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2103* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2104 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2105 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2106 did not reflect that.
2107
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2108* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2109 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2110 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2111 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2112 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2113 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2114 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2115 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2116
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2117* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2118 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2119 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2120 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2121
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2122* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2123 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2124 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2125 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2126
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2127* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2128 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2129 guarantees.
2130
2131* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2132 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2133 make state changes.
2134
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2136
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2138 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2139 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2140 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2141 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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2143* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2144 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2145 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2146 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2147 (CVE-2015-5180)
2148
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2150
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2151 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2152 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2153 protector-all
2154 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2155 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2156 before it started waiting
2157 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2158 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2159 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2160 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2161 wrong type
2162 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2163 library linked with pthread
2164 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2165 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2166 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2167 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2168 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2169 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2170 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2171 when it shouldnt
2172 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2173 not
2174 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2175 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2176 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2177 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2178 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2179 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2180 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2181 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2182 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2183 termination
2184 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2185 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2186 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2187 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2188 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2189 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2190 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2191 causes a segmentation fault
2192 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2193 linking
2194 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2195 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2196 uninitialized GOT
2197 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2198 versions
2199 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2200 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2201 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2202 is always true.
2203 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2204 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2205 modes
2206 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2207 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2208 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2209 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2210 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2211 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2212 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2213 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2214 libpthread.a
2215 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2216 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2217 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2218 _res_hconf
2219 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2220 information.
2221 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2222 penalty
2223 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2224 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2225 cause transition penalty
2226 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2227 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2228 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2229 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2230 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2231 mcount.oS)
2232 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2233 Checking
2234 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2235 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2236 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2237 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2238 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2239 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2240 multi-arch
2241 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2242 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2243 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2244 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2245 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2246 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2247 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2248 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2249 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2250 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2251 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2252 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2253 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2254 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2255 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2256 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2257 glibc
2258 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2259 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2260 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2261 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2262 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2263 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2264 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2265 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2266 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2267 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2268 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2269 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2270 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2271 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2272 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2273 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2274 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2275 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2276 RES_USE_INET6
2277 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2278 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2279 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2280 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2281 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2282 wrong condition
2283 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2284 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2285 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2286 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2287 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2288 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2289 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2290 clang
2291 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2292 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2293 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2294 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2295 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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2299* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2300 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2301 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2302 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2303 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2304 architectures.
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2306* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2307 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2308 been included in previous releases.
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2310* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2311 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2312
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2313* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2314 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2315 instead of “union wait”.
2316
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2317* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2318 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2319 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2320 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2321 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2322 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2323 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2324
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2325* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2326 API.
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2328* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2329 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2330 drop it.
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2332* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2333 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2334 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2335 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2336 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2337 extensions.
2338
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2339Security related changes:
2340
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2341* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2342 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2343 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2344
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2345* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2346 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2347 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2348 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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2350* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2351 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2352 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2353
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2354* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2355 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2356 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2357
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2358* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2359 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2360 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2361 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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2363The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2364
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2365 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2366 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2367 of MS-DOS.
2368 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2369 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2370 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2371 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2372 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2373 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2374 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2375 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2376 CLDR data
2377 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2378 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2379 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2380 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2381 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2382 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2383 romanisation
2384 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2385 and +/-
2386 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2387 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2388 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2389 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2390 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2391 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2392 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2393 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2394 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2395 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2396 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2397 all locales
2398 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2399 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2400 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2401 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2402 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2403 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2404 execute
2405 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2406 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2407 -Wsystem-headers
2408 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2409 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2410 Romanian locale data
2411 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2412 symbol
2413 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2414 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2415 language
2416 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2417 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2418 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2419 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2420 machine
2421 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2422 description
2423 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2424 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2425 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2426 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2427 when using RTLD_NEXT
2428 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2429 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2430 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2431 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2432 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2433 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2434 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2435 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2436 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2437 Excavator core
2438 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2439 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2440 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2441 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2442 double range
2443 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2444 part zero incorrect
2445 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2446 equality tests
2447 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2448 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2449 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2450 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2451 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2452 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2453 glibc-2.22
2454 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2455 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2456 'tst-numeric.c'
2457 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2458 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2459 low part
2460 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2461 result
2462 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2463 unaligned stack
2464 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2465 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2466 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2467 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2468 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2469 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2470 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2471 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2472 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2473 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2474 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2475 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2476 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2477 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2478 modes
2479 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2480 server addresses
2481 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2482 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2483 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2484 response to getaddrinfo
2485 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2486 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2487 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2488 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2489 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2490 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2491 sometimes incorrect
2492 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2493 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2494 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2495 record types
2496 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2497 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2498 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2499 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2500 (CVE-2016-3075)
2501 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2502 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2503 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2504 resolving symbols
2505 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2506 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2507 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2508 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2509 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2510 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2511 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2512 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2513 gethosts
2514 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2515 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2516 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2517 (CVE-2016-3706)
2518 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2519 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2520 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2521 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2522 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2523 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2524 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2525 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2526 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2527 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2528 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2529 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2530 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2531 executable
2532 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2533 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2534 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2535 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2536 XPG3
2537 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2538 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2539 (CVE-2016-4429)
2540 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2541 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2542 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2543 AS not supporting AVX512
2544 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2545 sNaN argument
2546 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2547 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2548 argument
2549 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2550 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2551 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2552 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2553 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2554 eax=0x80000001
2555 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2556 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2557 subnormals
2558 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2559 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2560 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2561 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2562 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2563 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2564 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2565 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2566 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2567 input
2568 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2569 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2570 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2571 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2572 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2573 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2574 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2575 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2576 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2577 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2578 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2579 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2580 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2581 double rounding
2582 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2583 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2584 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2585 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2586 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2587 (Only arm/linux)
2588 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2589 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2590 fallbacks
2591 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2592 "invalid" exceptions
2593 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2594 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2595 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2596 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2597 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2598 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2599 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2600 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2601 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2605* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2606 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2607 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2608 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2609 89, 16061, and 18568.
2610
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2611* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2612 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2613 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2614 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2615 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2616 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2617 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2618
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2619* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2620 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2621 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2622
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2623* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2624 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2625 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2626 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2627 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2628 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2629 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2630
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2631* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2632 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2633 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2634 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2635 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2636 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2637 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2638 Ericsson.)
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2640* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2641 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2642 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2643 independent of the GNU C Library.
2644
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2645* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2646 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2648* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2649 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2650 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2651 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2652 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2653 Linux kernel.
2654
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2655* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2656 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2658* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2659 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2660 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2661 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2662 defining their own copy.
2663
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2664* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2665 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2666 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2668Security related changes:
2669
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2670* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2671 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2672
2673* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2674 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2675 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2676 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2677 (CVE-2015-8777)
2678
2679* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2680 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2681
2682* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2683 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2684
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2685* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2686 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2687 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2689* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2690 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2691 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2692 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2693 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2694 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2695 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2696 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2697 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2698 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2699 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2700 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2701 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2702
ad372e29 2703The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2705 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2706 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2707 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2708 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2709 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2710 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2711 use `mkstemp'
2712 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2713 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2714 overflow/underflow errors
2715 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2716 overflow/underflow
2717 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2718 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2719 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2720 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2721 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2722 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2723 are not contiguous
2724 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2725 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2726 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2727 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2728 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2729 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2730 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2731 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2732 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2733 all exceptions
2734 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2735 arguments
2736 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2737 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2738 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2739 should include
2740 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2741 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2742 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2743 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2744 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2745 GNU/Linux
2746 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2747 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2748 arguments
2749 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2750 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2751 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2752 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2753 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2754 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2755 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2756 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2757 rounding results
2758 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2759 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2760 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2761 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2762 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2763 fails
2764 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2765 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2766 block boundary
2767 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2768 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2769 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2770 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2771 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2772 4.7?
2773 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2774 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2775 (related to lock elision)
2776 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2777 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2778 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2779 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2780 (CVE-2015-8779)
2781 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2782 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2783 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2784 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2785 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2786 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2787 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2788 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2789 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2790 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2791 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2792 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2793 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2794 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2795 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2796 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2797 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2798 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2799 contains a vector instruction exception.
2800 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2801 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2802 locales
2803 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2804 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2805 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2806 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2807 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2808 missing break ?
2809 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2810 32bit processes
2811 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2812 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2813 infinity
2814 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2815 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2816 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2817 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2818 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2819 be forced unloaded
2820 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2821 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2822 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2823 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2824 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2825 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2826 statically too large
2827 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2828 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2829 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2830 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2831 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2832 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2833 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2834 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2835 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2836 FUTEX_SHARED
2837 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2838 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2839 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2840 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2841 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2842 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2843 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2844 opendir()
2845 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2846 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2847 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2848 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2849 signgam
2850 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2851 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2852 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2853 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2854 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2855 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2856 dependencies
2857 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2858 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2859 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2860 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2861 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2862 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2863 (CVE-2015-8776)
2864 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2865 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2866 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2867 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2868 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2869 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2870 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2871 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2872 contention
2873 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2874 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2875 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2876 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2877 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2878 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2879 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2880 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2881 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2882 rounding modes
2883 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2884 ILP32
2885 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2886 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2887 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2888 threshold
2889 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2890 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2891 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2892 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2893 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2894 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2895 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2896 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2897 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2898 pthread_setaffinity_np
2899 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2900 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2901 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2902 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2903 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2904 prelink
2905 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2906 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2907 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2908 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2909 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2910 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2911 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2912 bits/mathcalls.h
2913 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2914 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2915 for C99-based standards
2916 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2917 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2918 math-only
2919 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2920 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2921 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2922 disabled
2923 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2924 "inexact" exceptions
2925 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2926 arguments
2927 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2928 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2929 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2930 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2931 rules
2932 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2933 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2934 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2935 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2936 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2937 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2938 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2939 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2940 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2941 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2942 from 32bit
2943 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2944 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2945 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2946 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2947 subnormals
2948 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2949 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2950 error on 32-bit architectures
2951 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2952 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2953 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2954 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2955 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2956 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2957 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2958 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2959 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2960 -Os
2961 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2962 CPU's.
2963 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2964 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2965 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2966 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2967 architectures
2968 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2970Version 2.22
2971
2972* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2973
3df5cd98 2974 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2975 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2976 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2977 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2978 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2979 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2980 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2981 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2982 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2983 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2984 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2985 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2986 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2987 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2988 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2989 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2990 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2991 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2992 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2993 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2994
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2995* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2996 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2997
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2998* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2999 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3000 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3001 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3002 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3003 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3004
42261ad7
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3005* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3006 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3007 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3008 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3009 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3010
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AM
3011* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3012 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3013 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3014
4a4839c9
AO
3015* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3016 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3017 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3018 17998.
3019
b13b96ca
AS
3020* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3021 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3022 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3023
3024* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3025 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3026 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3027 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3028 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3029 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3030 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3031 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3032
3033* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3034 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3035 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3036 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3037
3038* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3039 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3040 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3041
3042* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3043 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3044
3045* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3046 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3047 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3048
a03ba363 3049 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3050 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3051 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3052\f
58b930ae
SP
3053Version 2.21
3054
3055* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3056
042e1521 3057 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3058 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3059 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3060 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3061 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3062 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3063 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3064 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3065 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3066 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3067 17892.
3068
46d54873
FW
3069* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3070 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3071 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3072 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3073 intended.
042e1521
CD
3074
3075* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3076 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3077 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3078 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3079 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3080 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3081
522e6ee3
CLT
3082* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3083
d3b00f46
AZ
3084* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3085 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3086 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3087
8d2c0a59
AZ
3088* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3089 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3090 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3091 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3092 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3093 effects being visible outside transactions.
3094
dc400d7b
RE
3095* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3096 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3097
0f9dfe04
L
3098* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3099
a39208bd
CD
3100* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3101 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3102 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3103 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3104 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3105
a5357b7c
JL
3106* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3107 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3108
e54db0ea
AM
3109* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3110 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3111 format.
11e3417a 3112
4863355a
JM
3113* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3114 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3115 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3116
a4ecc9eb
JM
3117* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3118 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3119
0d560bbf 3120* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3121
3122* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3123 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3124 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3125 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3126
3127* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3128 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3129
3130* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3131 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3132 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3133 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3134 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3135 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3136 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3137 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3138 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3139 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3140 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3141 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3142 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3143
3144 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3145 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3146 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3147 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3148 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3149\f
d5b396c1
AM
3150Version 2.20
3151
3152* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3153
6a9350c8
JM
3154 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3155 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3156 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3157 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3158 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3159 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3160 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3161 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3162 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3163 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3164 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3165 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3166 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3167 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3168 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3169
95ee7fb1
SL
3170* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3171 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3172 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3173 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3174 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3175 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3176 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3177 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3178 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3179 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3180
0961f7e1
JL
3181* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3182 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3183 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3184 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3185 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3186
f940b965
RE
3187* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3188
d0f5b3f8
JM
3189* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3190 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3191
d6fe5e58
JM
3192* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3193 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3194 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3195 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3196 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3197 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3198
464263cc
JM
3199* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3200 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3201
3202* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3203 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3204 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3205 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3206 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3207 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3208 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3209
3210* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3211
3212* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3213 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3214 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3215 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3216 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3217 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3218 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3219
3220* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3221 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3222 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3223 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3224 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3225
3226* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3227 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3228 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3229
3230* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3231 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3232 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3233 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3234
3235* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3236 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3237 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3238 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3239 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3240 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3241 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3242 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3243
3244* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3245 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3246 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3247 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3248 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3249 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3250 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3251 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3252 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3253
3254* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3255 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3256 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3257 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3258 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3259 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3260
3261* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3262 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3263 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3264 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3265\f
3266Version 2.19
3267
3268* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3269
fd2f9486
JM
3270 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3271 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3272 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3273 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3274 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3275 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3276 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3277 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3278 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3279 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3280 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3281 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3282 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3283 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3284 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3285 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3286 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3287 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3288
11520a57
CD
3289* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3290 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3291
2fe16229
CD
3292* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3293 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3294 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3295 extension which uses __block.
3296
303e567a
SP
3297* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3298 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3299 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3300 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3301 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3302
141f3a77
SP
3303* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3304 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3305 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3306 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3307 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3308
3309* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3310 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3311 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3312 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3313 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3314
3315* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3316 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3317 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3318
ba0d798c
WN
3319* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3320 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3321 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3322 #15856, #15857).
3323
7cbcdb36
SP
3324* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3325 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3326
82bab04b 3327* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3328 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3329
c5f840fd
MB
3330* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3331
3e181dda
CD
3332* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3333 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3334
3e181dda 3335* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3336
8a05c252
CL
3337* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3338
6055173a
JM
3339* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3340 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3341 for which the C library was built.
3342
b125d3e5
JM
3343* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3344 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3345 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3346 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3347 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3348 in the following circumstances:
3349
3350 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3351
3352 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3353 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3354
d4f66d37
JM
3355* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3356 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3357
3e181dda
CD
3358* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3359 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3360
ffb89e53
AO
3361* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3362
5d29ccce
SP
3363* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3364 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3365
8b7d57cd 3366* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3367
3368* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3369
fd712ef3 3370* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3371
c688b419
JM
3372* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3373 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3374 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3375 disable some of those declarations.
3376
7011c262 3377* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3378 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3379 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3380
3381* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3382 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3383
3384* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3385 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3386 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3387 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3388 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3389 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3390 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3391 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3392 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3393 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3394 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3395 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3396 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3397\f
3398Version 2.18
3399
3400* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3401
17db6e8d 3402 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3403 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3404 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3405 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3406 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3407 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3408 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3409 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3410 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3411 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3412 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3413 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3414 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3415 15755, 15759.
e4608715
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3416
3417* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3418 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3419 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3420 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3421 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3422 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3423
5b535ac4
AS
3424* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3425 #15078).
3426
1cef1b19
AS
3427* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3428 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3429
55e4107b
SP
3430* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3431 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3432 destructor calls to glibc.
3433
e5c74c63
SP
3434* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3435 output.
3436
3437* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3438 non-x86 architectures.
3439
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JM
3440* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3441
3442* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3443
3444* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3445 Richard Henderson.
3446
3447* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3448
3449* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3450 Richard Henderson.
3451
3452* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3453 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3454
8cfdb7e0
SP
3455* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3456
57267616
TS
3457* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3458 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3459
c204ab28
SP
3460* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3461 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3462
0748546f
PE
3463* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3464 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3465 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3466
61dd6208
SP
3467* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3468 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3469 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3470
3471* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3472 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3473 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3474 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3475 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3476
3477* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3478 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3479
3480* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3481\f
3482Version 2.17
3483
3484* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3485
80ceeaee 3486 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3487 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3488 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3489 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3490 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3491 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3492 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3493 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3494 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3495 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3496 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3497 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3498 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3499 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3500 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3501
95b4f1b6
SE
3502* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3503
14bc93a9
JL
3504* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3505 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3506
b54eb3cb
JM
3507* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3508 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3509
7e2bd01f
MS
3510* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3511
08f43f9b
AK
3512* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3513 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3514 zEnterprise z196.
3515 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3516
84b3fd84
FW
3517* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3518 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3519 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3520
815e6fa3
GB
3521* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3522 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3523
400726de
MK
3524* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3525 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3526
7aab07e4 3527* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3528 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3529
15d0da8c
WS
3530* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3531 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3532
3cc3ef96
RM
3533* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3534 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3535 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3536 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3537
b54eb3cb
JM
3538* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3539 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3540
85429b1a 3541* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3542 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3543 default.
3544
b54eb3cb
JM
3545* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3546 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3547 information in --help and --version output.
3548
050af9c4
SP
3549* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3550 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3551 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3552
89a3ad0b
AO
3553* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3554 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3555 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3556 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3557 when the mode is enabled.
3558
6e6249d0
RM
3559* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3560 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3561 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3562 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3563 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3564 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3565 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3566
d9286582
NK
3567* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3568 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3569\f
3570Version 2.16
3571
3572* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3573
a8133e19
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3574 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3575 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3576 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3577 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3578 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3579 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3580 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3581 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3582 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3583 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3584 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3585 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3586 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3587 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3588 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3589 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3590 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3591 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3592 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3593 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3594 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3595 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3596 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3597
a086b4d6
L
3598* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3599 configuring glibc with:
3600 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3601 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3602 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3603
380d7e87
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3604* ISO C11 support:
3605
3606 + define static_assert
3607
3608 + do not declare gets
3609
3610 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3611
3612 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3613 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3614 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3615 implementation.
8d44e150 3616
74033a25 3617 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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3618
3619 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3620
ac097f5c
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3621 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3622
16dd419d
UD
3623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3624
9dc4e1fb 3625* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3626
3627* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3628
3629* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3630 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3631
3632* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3634
3635* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3636 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3637 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3638 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3639 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3640
21708942 3641* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3642 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3643 before 2.6.
83678f76 3644
edb00e4d
RH
3645* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3646 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3647 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3648
83678f76 3649* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3650
3651* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3652 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3653 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3654 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3655 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3656
3657* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3658
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3659* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3660 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3661
3662* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3663
3664* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3665 without a previously built glibc.
3666
3667* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3668 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3669
3670* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3671 now supported for ARM processors.
3672
3673* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3674 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3675 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3676
3677* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3678
3679* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3680 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3681 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3682 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3683
3684* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3685 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3686 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3687 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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CD
3688
3689* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3690 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3691 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3692 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3693 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3694
3695* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3696 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3697 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3698 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3699\f
e80fab37 3700Version 2.15
11988f8f 3701
c0244a9d
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3702* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3703
aebae053
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3704 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3705 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3706 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3707 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3708 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3709 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3710 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3711
11988f8f
UD
3712* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3714
3715* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3716 and support for initgroups lookups.
3717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3718
3719* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3720 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3721
3722* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3723 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3724
fc2ee42a
LD
3725* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3726 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3727 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3728
d42964a0 3729* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3730 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3731
1d3e4b61
UD
3732* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3733 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3734 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3735
c55fbd1e
UD
3736* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
3738
3739* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3740 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
3741
3742* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3744
3745* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3746 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3747
3748* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3749 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3750
3751* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3752 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3753
3754* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3755
3756* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3758
f0b264f1
AZ
3759* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3760 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3761
6b64057b 3762* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3763\f
dded88cd 3764Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3765
50934221
UD
3766* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3767
553149f6 3768 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3769 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3770 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3771 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3772 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3773 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3774 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3775 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3776 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3777 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3778
7b57bfe5
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3779* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3780 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3781 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3782 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3783
3784 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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3785 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3786 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3788
c6489db3 3789* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3790 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3791
72d1dddb 3792* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3793 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3794
3795* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3796
3797* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
3799
3800* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3801 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3802 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3803 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3804\f
4828935d
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3805Version 2.13
3806
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3807* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3808
c30b7ee2
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3809 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3810 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3811 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3812 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3813 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3814
10b3bedc 3815* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3816
ac2b484c 3817* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3818
e9f82e0d
UD
3819* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3820 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3821 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3822\f
ee1a7fab
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3823Version 2.12
3824
d36b9613
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3825* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3826
2e0fb521
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3827 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3828 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3829 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3830 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3831 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3832 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3833 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3834 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3836* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3838* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3839
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3840* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3841
3842* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3843 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3845
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3846* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3847 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3848 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3849 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3851
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3855
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3857
3858 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3859 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3860 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3861 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3862 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3863 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3864
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3866 mkostemps64
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3868
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3870 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3871
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3872* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3873 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3874
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3875* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3876
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9d36a6c4 3878 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3879 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3881
9d36a6c4 3882 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3884
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3885* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3886 strstr, strcasestr.
3887 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3888
3889* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3890 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3891
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3892* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3893 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3894
3895* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3896 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3897
3898* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3899 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3900 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3901 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3902 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3903 necessity is every process again.
3904 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3905
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3907 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3908
3909* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3910 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3911
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3912* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3913 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3915
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3919
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3921
3922 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3923 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3924 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3925 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3926 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3927
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3930
425ce2ed 3931* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3932 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3933
1fdd89a7 3934* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3935 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3938 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3940* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3941 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3943* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3945
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3946* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3947 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3948
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3949* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3950 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3951
3952* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3953 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3954 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3955
735be400 3956* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3958* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3960
3961* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3962 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3963 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3964
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3965* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3966 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3967
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3968* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3969 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3970 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3971 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3972 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3976
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3978
3979 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3980 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3981 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3982 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3983 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3984
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3986 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3987
3988* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3989 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3991* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3994* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3995 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3997
3998* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3999 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4003* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4004 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4006* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4007 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4008 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4009 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4010
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4011* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4012 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4015 Sinhala)
48b22986 4016 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4018* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4021
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4023
4024 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4025 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4026 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4027 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4028 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4029 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4030 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4031
e038616f 4032* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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4036* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4037 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4038
4039* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4040
4041* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4043
4044* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4046
4047* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4048 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4049 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4050
4051* Faster memset for x86-64.
4052 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4053
4054* Faster memcpy on x86.
4055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4056
4057* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4060* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4061 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4064
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4066
4067 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4068 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4069 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4070 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4071 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4072
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4073* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4074 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4075
4076* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4077
4078* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4079 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4080 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4081
4082* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4083 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4084
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4086 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4087
4088* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4089
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4090* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4092
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4093* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4094 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4095
4096* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4097 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4098
4099* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4100
4101* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4104* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4105 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4106 yo_NG.
4107
4108+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4109 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4114
4115 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4116 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4117 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4118 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4119 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4120 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4121 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4122 4702, 4858
4123
bce20b9a 4124* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4127
b21fa963 4128* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4131
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4133
4134 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4135 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4136 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4137 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4138 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4139 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4140 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4141 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4142 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4143
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4145 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4148* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4150
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4153* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4155* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4156 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4157 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4160
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4162 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4163 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4164 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4165
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4167 Ulrich Drepper.
4168
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4169* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4170
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4171* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4172 Ulrich Drepper.
4173
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4174* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4175
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4176* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4177 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4180
4181* More overflow detection functions.
4182
4183* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4184 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4186 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4187 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4188 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4189 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4190 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4191 by Masahide Washizawa.
4192
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4194 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4196* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4197 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4198 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4199 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4201* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4202 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4203
4204* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4205
4206* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4207 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4208 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4209
4210* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4211 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4212
4213* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4214 for compatibility with some other systems.
4215
4216* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4219
4220* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4221
4222 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4223 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4224 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4225 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4226 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4227 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4228
5a82c748 4229 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4231* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4232
4233* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4236
4237* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4238
4239 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4240 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4241 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4242 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4243
5a82c748 4244 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4247
4248* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4250
4251* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4252 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4254
4255* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4256 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4257
0325dd20 4258* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4259 efficiently.
4260 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4261
4262* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4263 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4264 handling data.
4265
4266* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4267 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4268 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4269
4270* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4271 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4272
4273* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4274 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4275 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4276 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4277
4278* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4279 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4280 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4281 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4282
4283* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4284 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4285 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4286 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4287 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4289Version 2.3.3
4290
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4291* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4292 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4293
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4294* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4295 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4296
69be6aaf 4297* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4298 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4299
4300* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4302
4303* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4304 by Roland McGrath.
4305
c5af724c 4306* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4307 and Ulrich Drepper.
4308
4309* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4310 RFC 3484.
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4312Version 2.3.2
4313
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4314* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4315 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4316 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4317 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4318 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4319 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4320 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4321 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4322 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4323
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4324* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4325 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4326 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4327
4328* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4329
4330* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4331 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 4332
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4333* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4334 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4335
52a16e58 4336* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 4337
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4338* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4339 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4340
4341* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4342 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4343 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4344 of weak definition in ld.so.
4345
4346* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4347 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4348
4349* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4350 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4354* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4355 charsets.
4356
4357* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4358 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4359
bb0ec5bd 4360* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4361 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4362
4363* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4364 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4365
bb0ec5bd 4366* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4367 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4368 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4369
4370* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4371 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4372
bb0ec5bd 4373* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4374 implementation of regex.
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4375
4376* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4377 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 4378
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4379* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4380 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 4381
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4382* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4383 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4384 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4385
4386* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4387 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4388
4389* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4390 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4391 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4392
4393* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4394 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4395
4396* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4397 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4398 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4399
4400* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4402Version 2.2.6
4403
4404* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4405 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4406
4407* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4408 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4410Version 2.2.5
4411
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4412* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4413 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 4414
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4415* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4416 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4417
ad2e4f18 4418* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4419
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4420* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4421
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4422* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4423 as well.
4424
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4425* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4426 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4427
4428* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4430Version 2.2.4
4431
2995f70e 4432* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4433 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4434
4435* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4436 support Unicode 3.1.
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4437
4438* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4439 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4440
69d5f925 4441* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4442
69d5f925 4443* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4444 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4445 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4446
4447* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4448 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4449
4450* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4451 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4452
4453* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 4454\f
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4455Version 2.2.3
4456
1746f2b0 4457* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4458 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4459 in float, double, and long double format.
4460
f128331c 4461* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4462 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4463 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4464
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4465* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4466 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4467 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4468 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4469
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4470* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4471 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4472 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4473
4474* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4475 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4476
4477* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4478 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4479
4480* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4481 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4482 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4483
4484* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4485 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4486
4487* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4488 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4489
4490* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 4491\f
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4492Version 2.2.2
4493
464d97ec 4494* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4495 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4496 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4497 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4498 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4499 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4500 other headers.
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4501
4502* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4503 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4504
4505* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4506 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4507 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4508 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4509
4510* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4511 locales. While
4512
4513 locale -a
4514
4515 only lists the names of the supported locales
4516
4517 locale -a --verbose
4518
4519 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4520 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4522Version 2.2.1
4523
4524* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4525 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4526 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4527 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4528 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4529
4530 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4531
4532 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4533
4534 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4535
4536* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4537 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4538 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4539
4540* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4541 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4542
4543* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4544 changed from the default "C" locale.
4545
4546* The usual bug fixes.
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4548Version 2.2
4549
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4550* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4551 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4552 is in progress.
4553
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4554* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4555
793bd4d9 4556* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4557
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4558 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4559 obviously requires a database library being available.
4560
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4561* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562
abbffdf9 4563* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4564
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4565* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4566 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4567
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4568* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4569
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4570* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4571 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4572 and Mark Kettenis.
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4573
4574 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4575 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4576 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4577
a00c3ca9 4578 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4579 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4580
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4581* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4582 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4583 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4584
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4585* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4586 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4587 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4588 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4589
8f3f1e09
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4590 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4591 structures for the wide character tables.
4592
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4593* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4594
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4595* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4596
4597* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4598
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4599* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4600 and Yutaka Niibe.
4601
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4602* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4603
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4604* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4605
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4606* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4607
4608* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4609
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4610* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4611
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4612* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4613 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4614 implemented for Linux.
4615
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4616* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4617 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4618 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4619 versions.
4620
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4621* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4622 Masahide Washizawa.
4623
8f3f1e09 4624* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4625\f
4626Version 2.1.3
4627
4628* bug fixes
4629
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4630\f
4631Version 2.1.2
4632
4633* bug fixes
4634
28f540f4 4635\f
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4636Version 2.1.1
4637
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4638* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4639
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4640* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4641
407d26b7 4642* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4643
4644* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4645
407d26b7 4646* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4647
407d26b7 4648* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4649
4650* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4651
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4652* lots of charmaps corrections
4653
4654* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4655
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4657Version 2.1
4658
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4659* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4660 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4661 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4662 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4663 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4664 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4665
c84142e8 4666* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4667 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4668
1fb05e3d 4669* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4670 symbol level.
4671
4672* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4673 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4674
cbdee279 4675* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4676
4677* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4678 numbers.
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cbdee279 4680* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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4682* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4683 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4684
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4685* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4686 library.
4687
e61abf83 4688* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4689 functions from ISO C 9X.
4690
4691* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4692 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4693
a5a0310d 4694* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4695
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4696* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4697
4698* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4699
440d13e2 4700* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4701
4702* Optimized string functions have been added.
4703
4704* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4705
4706* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4707
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4708* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4709 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4710
4711 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4712 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4713
0dee6738 4714 user system wall
48244d09 4715
0dee6738 4716 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4717
0dee6738 4718 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4719
0dee6738 4720 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4722 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4723
4724 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4725
4726 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 4727
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4728 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4729 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4730 horribly slow.
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4732 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4733 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4735* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4736
4737* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4738
4739* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4740 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4741
4742* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4743
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4744* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4745 Bambrough.
4746
4747* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4748 latest draft standards.
4749
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4750* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4751
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4752* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4753~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4755alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4756argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4757argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4758argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4759argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4760argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4761argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4762argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4763argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4764argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4765argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4766authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4767authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4768authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4769backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4770backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4771backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4772cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4773cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4774cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4775cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4776cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4777cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4778capget NEW: kernel
4779capset NEW: kernel
4780carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4781cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4782cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4783casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4784casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4785casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4786casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4787casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4788casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4789catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4790catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4791catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4792catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4793catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4794catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4795cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4797ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4798ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4799ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4800ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4801ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4802cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4803cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4804cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4805cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4806cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4807cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4808clearerr_locked REMOVED
4809clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4810clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4811clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4812clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4813clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4814clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4815clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4816conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4817conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4818conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4819cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4820cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4821cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4822cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4823cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4824cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4825creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4826crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4827creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4828creat64 NEW: LFS
4829csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4830csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4831csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4832csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4833csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4834csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4835csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4836csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4837csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4838ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4839ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4840ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4841ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4842ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4843ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4845ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4846endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4848exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4849exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4850exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4851exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4852exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4853fattach NEW: STREAMS
4854fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4855fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4856fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4857fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4858feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4859fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4860fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4861fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4862feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4863feof_locked REMOVED
4864feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4865ferror_locked REMOVED
4866fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4867fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4868fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4869fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4870feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4871fflush_locked REMOVED
4872ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4873ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4874fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4875fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4876fileno_locked REMOVED
4877fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4878fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4879fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4880fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4881fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4882fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4883fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4884fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4885fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4886fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4888fputc_locked REMOVED
4889fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4890fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4891freopen64 NEW: LFS
4892fseeko NEW: Unix98
4893fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4894fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4895fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4896fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4897ftello NEW: Unix98
4898ftello64 NEW: LFS
4899ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4900ftw64 NEW: LFS
4901fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4902gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4903gamma_r REMOVED
4904gammaf_r REMOVED
4905gammal_r REMOVED
4906getchar_locked REMOVED
4907getdate NEW: Unix98
4908getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4909getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4910getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4911getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4914getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4915getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4917getutxid NEW: Unix98
4918getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4920globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4921gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4922gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4923grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4924host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4926iconv_close NEW: iconv
4927iconv_open NEW: iconv
4928if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4929if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4930if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4931if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4932in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4933in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4934inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4935isastream NEW: STREAMS
4936iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4938key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4939key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4940key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4941key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4942key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4943key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4944key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4945key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4947llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4948llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4949llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4950llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4951llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4952log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4953log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4954log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4955lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4956lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4957lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4958lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4959lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4960lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4961lseek64 NEW: LFS
4962makecontext NEW: Unix98
4963mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4964mmap64 NEW: LFS
4965moncontrol REMOVED
4966modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4967nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4968nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4969nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4970nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4971nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4972nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4974netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4976nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4977nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4979nftw64 NEW: LFS
4980open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4981passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4983pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4984pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4985pread NEW: Unix98
4986pread64 NEW: LFS
4987printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4988printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4989profil_counter REMOVED
4990pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4991pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4992ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4993ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4994putc_locked REMOVED
4995putchar_locked REMOVED
4996putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4997putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4998putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4999pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5001pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5002readdir64 NEW: LFS
5003readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5004remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5005remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5006remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5007round NEW: ISO C 9x
5008roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5009roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5010rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5011scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5012scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5013scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5014scandir64 NEW: LFS
5015sendfile NEW: kernel
5016setcontext NEW: Unix98
5017setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5018setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5020sigignore NEW: Unix98
5021sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5022sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5023sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5024sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5025sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5026sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5027sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5028sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5029statfs64 NEW: LFS
5030statvfs NEW: Unix98
5031statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5032strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5034strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5035strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5036svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5038svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5039swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5040tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5041tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5042tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5043tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5044tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5045tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5046trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5047truncate64 NEW: LFS
5048truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5049truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5050umount2 NEW: kernel
5051unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5052updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5053user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5054utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5055versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5056versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5057waitid NEW: Unix98
5058wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5059wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5060wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5061wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5062wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5063wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5064wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5065wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5066wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5067wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5068write_profiling REMOVED
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5070xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5071xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5072xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5073xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5074xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5075xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5076xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5077xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5078xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5079xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5080xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5081xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5082xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 5084~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5085\f
5086Version 2.0.6
5087
5088* more bug fixes
5089
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5090\f
5091Version 2.0.5
5092
5093* more bug fixes
5094
5095* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5096
5097* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5098
5099* rewrite of cbrt function
5100
5101* update of timezone data
5102\f
5103Version 2.0.4
5104
5105* more bug fixes
5106\f
5107Version 2.0.3
5108
5109* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5110\f
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5111Version 2.0.2
5112
5113* more bug fixes
5114
5115* add atoll function
5116
5117* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5119* fix math functions
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5120\f
5121Version 2.0.1
5122
5123* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5124
5125* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5126
5127* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5128 the ELF dynamic loader.
5129
5130* support for parallel builds is improved
5131\f
40a4b79f 5132Version 2.0
28f540f4 5133
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5134* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5135 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5136 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5137
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5138* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5139 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5140 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5141 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5142 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5143 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5144 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5145 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5146 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5147 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5148 files in the ELF format.
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5149
5150* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5151 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5152
5153* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5154 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5155 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5156 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5157 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5158 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5159 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5160 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5161 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5162 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5163 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5165* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5166 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5167 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5168 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5169 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5170
f7eac6eb 5171* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5172 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5173 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5174 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5175 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5176
5177* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5179* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5180 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5181 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5182 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5183 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5184 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5185 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5186 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5187 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5188
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5189* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5190 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5191 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5192
5193* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5194 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5195 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5196
5197* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5198 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5199 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5200 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5201
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5202* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5203 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5204 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5205
5206* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5207 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5208 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5209
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5210* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5211 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5212
f7eac6eb 5213* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5214 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5215 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5216 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5217
5218* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5219 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5220 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5221
71733723 5222* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5223 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5224 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5225 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5226 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5227 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5228 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5229 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5230
5231* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5232 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5233 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5234 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5235 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5236 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5237 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5238
5239* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5240 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5241 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5242 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5243 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5244 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5245
5246* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5247 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5248
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5249* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5250 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5251 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5253* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5254
5255* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5256 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5257 their use is discouraged.
5258
5259* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5260 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5262* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5263 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5264
5265* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5266 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5267
5268* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5269 see <dirent.h>.
5270
5271* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5272 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5273 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5274 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5275 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5276
5277* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5278 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5279 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5280 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5281
5282* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5283 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5284
5285* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5286 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5287 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5288 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5289 number generator.
5290
5291* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5292 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5293
5294* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5295 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5296
71733723 5297* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5298 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5299 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5300 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5302* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5303
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5304* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5305 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5306 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5307
5308* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5309 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5311* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5312 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5313 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5314 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5315
5316* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5317 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5318 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5319 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5320 programs already written to use it.)
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5321
5322* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5323 constants.
5324
5325* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5326 with 4.4 BSD.
5327
5328* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5329 a given effective group ID.
5330
5331* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5332 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5333 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5334 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5335
5336* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5337 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5338 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5339 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5340 doing the same thing.
5341
5342* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5343 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5344
5345* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5346 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5347
5348* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5349
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5350* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5351 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5352 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5353 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5354 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5355
5356* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5357 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5358
5359* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5360 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5361 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5362 function.
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5363
5364* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5365
5366* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5367 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5368 strings.
5369
5370* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5371 and writing the utmp file.
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5372
5373* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5374 Thorsten Kukuk.
5375
5376* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5377 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5378 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5379
5380* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5381 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5382
5383* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5384 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5385 specification.
5386
5387* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5388 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5389 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5390 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5391
5392* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5393 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5394 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5395
5396* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5397 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5398 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5399 expression matcher.
5400
5401* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5402 functionality.
5403
5404* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5405 by Ulrich Drepper.
5406
5407* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5408
5409* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5410 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5411 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5413Version 1.09
5414
5415* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5416
5417* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5418 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5419
5420* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5421 want to put themselves in the background.
5422
5423* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5424 run without an operating system.
5425
5426* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5427 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5428
5429* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5430 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5431
5432* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5433
5434* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5435 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5436 have YP (aka NIS).
5437
5438* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5439 conventions.
5440
5441* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5442 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5443\f
5444Version 1.08
5445
5446* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5447 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5448 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5449
5450* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5451 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5452
5453* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5454 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5455
5456* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5457
5458* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5459
5460* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5461 compatibility.
5462
5463* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5464 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5465 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5466
5467* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5468
5469* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5470 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5471 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5472
5473* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5474 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5475 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5476 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5477 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5478 on a block).
5479
5480* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5481 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5482 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5483 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5484 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5485 cross-compiler.
5486
5487* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5488 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5489\f
5490Version 1.07
5491
5492* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5493 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5494
5495* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5496 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5497 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5498
5499* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5500 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5501 address of the last character written.
5502
5503* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5504 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5505
5506* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5507 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5508
5509* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5510 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5511 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5512 you dereference this pointer.
5513
5514* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5515 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5516
5517* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5518 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5519 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5520 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5521
5522* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5523 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5524 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5525 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5526\f
5527Version 1.06
5528
5529* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5530 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5531 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5532 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5533 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5535* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5536
5537* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5538
5539* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5540 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5541
5542* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5543 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5544
5545* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5546 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5547
5548* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5549 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5550 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5551 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5552 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5553
5554* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5555 to the error code in `errno'.
5556
5557* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5558 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5559 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5560 malloc'd string.
5561
5562* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5563 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5564 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5565
5566* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5567 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5569Version 1.05
5570
5571* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5572 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5573 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5574
5575* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5576 characters.
5577
5578* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5579 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5580
5581* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5582\f
5583Version 1.04
5584
5585* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5586 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5587 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5588 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5589
5590* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5591 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5592 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5593
5594* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5595 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5596
5597* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5598 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5599 made itself into a shared library.
5600
5601* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5602 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5603
5604* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5605 with limited length.
5606
5607* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5608
5609* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5610
5611* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5612
5613* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5614 function for traversing a directory tree.
5615
5616* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5617 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5618 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5619 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5620
5621* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5622 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5623
5624* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5625
5626* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5627 things to your strings.
5628
5629* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5630
5631* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5632 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5633 supporting those systems.
5634
5635* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5636 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5637 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5638 configuration files.
5639
5640* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5641 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5642
5643* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5645 in <strings.h>.)
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5646
5647* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5648 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5649 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5650 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5651 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5652 required storage is not available.
5653
5654* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5655 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5656
5657* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5658 latest files released from Berkeley.
5659\f
5660----------------------------------------------------------------------
5661Copyright information:
5662
c9123888 5663Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5664
5665 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5666 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5667 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5668 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5669
5670 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5671 of this document, or of portions of it,
5672 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5673 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5674\f
5675Local variables:
5676version-control: never
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