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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28.1
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10Major new features:
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12* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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14Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
15
16* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
17 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
18 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
19 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
20 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
21 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
22 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
23 process actually does not use HTM).
24
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25The following bugs are resolved with this release:
26
630d7201 27 [18465] memusagestat: use local glibc when linking
1e5c5303 28 [19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
2373941b 29 [20018] getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters
5473739a 30 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
fc0e3393 31 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
df11de91 32 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
4b25485f 33 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3e8d8dd5 34 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
2f498f3d 35 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
aa8a3e4c 36 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
69d1e73d 37 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
58559f14 38 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
044c96f0 39 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2339d6a5 40 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
85262025 41 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
e7d22db2 42 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
65010329 43 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
3a67c72c 44 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
aff9b377 45 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
5256ffc5 46 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
4bf5ab31 47 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
e8c13d5f 48 [23844] pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
ce6ba630 49 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
5f1ae50a 50 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
bee4baf6 51 [24018] gettext may return NULL
be62bbb6 52 [24022] riscv may lack <asm/syscalls.h>
198bfee8 53 [24024] strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-error
8f83d095 54 [24027] malloc: Integer overflow in realloc
2a8612b2 55 [24034] tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when using GCC 8
384113d1 56 [24040] riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
492524a6 57 [24097] Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
9aaa0833 58 [24155] x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
60f80624 59 [24161] __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
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61Security related changes:
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63 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
64 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
65 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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67 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
68 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
69 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
70 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
71 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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73 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
74 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
75 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
76 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
77 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
78 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
79 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
80
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81 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
82 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
83 or command injection issues in applications.
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85 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
86 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
87 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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89Version 2.28
90
91Major new features:
92
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93* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
94 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
95 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
96 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
97 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
98 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
99 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
100 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
101 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
102 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
103 archive or binary locales.
104
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105* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
106 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
107 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
108 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
109 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
110 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
111 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
112 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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113 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
114 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
115 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
116 validated for i686.
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118* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
119 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
120 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
121 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
122 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
123 field) to indicate such support is required.
124
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125* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
126 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
127 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
128
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129* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
130 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
131
132 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
133 fMxaddfNx functions.
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135 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
136 fMxsubfNx functions.
137
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138 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
139 fMxmulfNx functions.
140
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141 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
142 fMxdivfNx functions.
143
e607a352 144* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 145 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 146 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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147 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
148 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 150* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 151 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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153* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
154 patches.
155
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156* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
157 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
158 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
159 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
160 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
161 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
162 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
163 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
164
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165* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
166 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
167 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
168 the fstatat64 function.
169
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170* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
171 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
172 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
173 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
174 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
175 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
176 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
177 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
178 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
179
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180* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
181 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
182 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
183 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
184 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
185 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
186 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
187 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
188 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
189 results in a load failure now.
190
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191* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
192 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
193 <threads.h>:
194
195 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
196 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
197
198 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
199 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
200
201 - call_once for function call synchronization.
202
203 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
204 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
205
206 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
207
208 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
209
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210Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
211
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212* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
213 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
214 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
215
216* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
217 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
218 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
219 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
220 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
221 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
222
223* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
224 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
225 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
226 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
227 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
228 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
229 (Bug #1190.)
230
231* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
232 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
233 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
234 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
235 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
236 further explanation.
237
238 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
239 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
240 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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242* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
243
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244* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
245 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
246 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
247
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248* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
249 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
250 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
251 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
252
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253* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
254 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
255 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
256 for this function instead.
257
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258* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
259 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
260 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
261
262* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
263 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
264 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
265 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
266
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267* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
268 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
269 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
270 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
271 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
272
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273* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
274 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
275 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
276 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
277 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
278 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
279 such as libgcrypt.
280
281* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
282 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
283 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
284 enabled.
285
286* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
287 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
288 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
289
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290* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
291 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
292 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
293 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
294 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
295 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
296
297 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
298 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
299 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
300 behavior in a future release.
301
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302Changes to build and runtime requirements:
303
f2873d2d 304 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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306Security related changes:
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308 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
309 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
310 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
311 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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313 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
314 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
315
316 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
317 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
318 Izbyshev.
319
320 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
321 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
322 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
323
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324The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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326 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
327 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
328 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
329 when __WORDSIZE != 64
330 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
331 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
332 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
333 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
334 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
335 14651
336 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
337 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
338 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
339 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
340 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
341 conversion is given
342 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
343 date
344 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
345 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
346 scope with -O1 and higher
347 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
348 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
349 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
350 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
351 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
352 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
353 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
354 horrible machine code)
355 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
356 last constant.
357 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
358 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
359 symbols
360 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
361 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
362 defined
363 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
364 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
365 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
366 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
367 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
368 fpscr.c'
369 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
370 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
371 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
372 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
373 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
374 the base address
375 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
376 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
377 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
378 open_verify
379 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
380 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
381 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
382 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
383 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
384 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
385 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
386 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
387 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
388 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
389 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
390 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
391 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
392 dlopen
393 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
394 AT_SECURE=1
395 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
396 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
397 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
398 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
399 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
400 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
401 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
402 for Spanish with CLDR
403 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
404 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
405 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
406 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
407 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
408 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
409 es_BO
410 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
411 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
412 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
413 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
414 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
415 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
416 dlopen failures
417 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
418 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
419 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
420 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
421 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
422 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
423 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
424 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
425 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
426 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
427 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
428 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
429 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
430 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
431 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
432 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
433 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
434 makecontext
435 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
436 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
437 required
438 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
439 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
440 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
441 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
442 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
443 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
444 disabled
445 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
446 failure
447 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
448 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
449 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
450 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
451 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
452 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
453 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
454 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
455 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
456 and libc build with -Os)
457 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
458 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
459 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
460 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
461 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
462 that changes /etc/passwd
463 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
464 (CVE-2018-11237)
465 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
466 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
467 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
468 posix/regcomp.c
469 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
470 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
471 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
472 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
473 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
474 AT_SECURE
475 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
476 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
477 parser.c
478 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
479 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
480 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
481 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
482 directed rounding
483 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
484 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
485 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
486 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
487 lookup
488 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
489 interposition
490 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
491 DSO boundaries.
492 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
493 <linux/time.h>
494 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
495 checking
496 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
497 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
498 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
499 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
500 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
501 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
502 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
503 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
504 processors
505 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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507 answers will be rejected)
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510Version 2.27
511
512Major new features:
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515 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 516 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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518 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
519 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
520 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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521 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
522 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 524* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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526 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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529
4cf82d23 530* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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533 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
534 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
535 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
536 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
537 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
538 from a security and performance perspective.
539
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540* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
541 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
542 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
543 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
544
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547 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
548 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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549 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
550
a23aa5b7 551* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 552 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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553 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
554 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
555 _Float128.
556
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557* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
558 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
559 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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563* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
564 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
565 pkey_get.
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568
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569* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
570
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571* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
572 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
573 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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576 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
577 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
578 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
579 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
580 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
581 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
582
583 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
584 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
585 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
586 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
587 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
588 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
589 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
590
591 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
592 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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594 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
595 respectively.
596
597 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
598 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
599 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
600 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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602 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
603 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
604 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
605
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607 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 608 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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611 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
612 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
613
614 - rv64imac lp64
615 - rv64imafdc lp64
616 - rv64imafdc lp64d
617
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620* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
621 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 622 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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624 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
625 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
626 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
627 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
628 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
629 fix this.
630
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631* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
632 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
633 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
634
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635* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
636 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
637 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
638 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
639 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
640 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
641 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
642 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
643 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
644 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
645 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
646 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
647 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
648 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
649 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
650 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
651 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
652 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
653 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
654 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
655 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
656 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
657 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
658 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
659 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
660 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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663 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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666 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
667 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
668 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
669 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
670 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
671 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
672
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674 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
675 exp10l for these functions instead.
676
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677* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
678 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
679 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
680
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681* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
682 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
683 ignored.
684
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685* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
686 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
687 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
688 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
689
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690* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
691 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
692
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693* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
694 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
695
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696* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
697 programs.
698
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699* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
700
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701* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
702 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
703 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
704 instead.
705
706 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
707 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
708 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
709 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
710 use, but predates the bits convention.
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714* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
715 subdirectory.
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717Security related changes:
718
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719 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
720 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
721 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
722 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
723 script.)
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726 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
727 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
728 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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730 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
731 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
732 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
733 of service.
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736 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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737 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
738
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739 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
740 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
741 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
742 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
743
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744 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
745 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
746 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
747 Qualys.
748
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749 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
750 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
751 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
752 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
753 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
754
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755 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
756 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
757 current directory.
758
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759 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
760 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
761 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
762
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763 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
764 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
765 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
766
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767 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
768 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
769 small, instead of NULL.
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774 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
775 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
776 locale
777 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
778 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
779 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
780 cases
781 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
782 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
783 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
784 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
785 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
786 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
787 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
788 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
789 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
790 "Bangla"
791 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
792 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
793 width Latin characters
794 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
795 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
796 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
797 letters
798 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
799 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
800 (CVE-2009-5064)
801 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
802 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
803 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
804 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
805 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
806 if malloc succeeded
807 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
808 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
809 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
810 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
811 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
812 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
813 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
814 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
815 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
816 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
817 U+309A
818 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
819 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
820 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
821 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
822 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
823 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
824 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
825 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
826 for Nicaragua
827 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
828 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
829 are not found.
830 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
831 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
832 access
833 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
834 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
835 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
836 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
837 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
838 __regcall calling convention
839 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
840 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
841 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
842 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
843 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
844 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
845 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
846 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
847 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
848 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
849 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
850 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
851 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
852 locale
853 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
854 protector=all
855 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
856 wcwidth
857 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
858 consistency check failures
859 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
860 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
861 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
862 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
863 PIE
864 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
865 locales
866 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
867 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
868 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
869 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
870 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
871 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
872 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
873 on memory allocation failure
874 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
875 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
876 the suspect)
877 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
878 default (i386)
879 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
880 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
881 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
882 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
883 instead of EAI_NODATA
884 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
885 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
886 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
887 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
888 implementation
889 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
890 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
891 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
892 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
893 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
894 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
895 allocation in syscall loops)
896 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
897 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
898 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
899 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
900 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
901 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
902 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
903 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
904 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
905 occur with -O3
906 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
907 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
908 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
909 amounts)
910 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
911 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
912 niu_NZ
913 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
914 checks
915 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
916 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
917 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
918 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
919 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
920 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
921 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
922 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
923 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
924 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
925 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
926 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
927 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
928 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
929 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
930 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
931 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
932 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
933 parsing after OOM
934 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
935 object
936 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
937 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
938 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
939 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
940 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
941 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
942 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
943 ppc64le
944 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
945 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
946 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
947 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
948 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
949 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
950 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
951 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
952 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
953 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
954 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
955 math_force_eval
956 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
957 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
958 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
959 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
960 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
961 the svid compat wrapper
962 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
963 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
964 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
965 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
966 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
967 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
968 --verbose.
969 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
970 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
971 to 2.26
972 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
973 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
974 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
975 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
976 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
977 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
978 (CVE-2017-15804)
979 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
980 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
981 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
982 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
983 failure."
984 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
985 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
986 -m32
987 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
988 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
989 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
990 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
991 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
992 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
993 inside the ASCII printable range
994 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
995 -mlong-double-64
996 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
997 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
998 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
999 Internet
1000 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1001 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1002 backslash
1003 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1004 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1005 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1006 heaps in an arena
1007 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1008 networking interface
1009 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1010 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1011 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1012 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1013 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1014 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1015 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1016 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1017 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1018 order
1019 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1020 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1021 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1022 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1023 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1024 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1025 same as for Croatian
1026 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1027 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1028 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1029 for initial thread"
1030 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1031 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1032 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1033 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1034 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1035 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1036 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1037 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1038 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1039 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1040 modified in case of success
1041 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1042 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1043 success
1044 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1045 stack-protector=all
1046 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1047 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1048 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1049 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1050 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1051 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1052 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1053 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1054 adding it on top
1055 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1056 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1057 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1058 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1059 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1060 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1061 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1062 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1063 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1064 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1065 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1066 elision and tunables
1067 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1068 "invalid" exception
1069 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1070 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1071 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1072 exception
1073 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1074 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1075 power4
1076 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1077 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1078 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1079 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1080 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1081 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1082 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1083 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1084 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1087Version 2.26
1088
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1089Major new features:
1090
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1091* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1092 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1093 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1094 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1095 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1096 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1097 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1098
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1099* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1100 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1101 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1102 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1103 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1104 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1105 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1107* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1108 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1109 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1110
2b2ccd0c 1111* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1113 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1114 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1115 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1117 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1118 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1119 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1120 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1121 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1123 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1124 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1125 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1127* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1128 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1130* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1131 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1132 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1133 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1135* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1136 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1137 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1138 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1140* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1141 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1142 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1143 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1145* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1146 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1147 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1148
2b2ccd0c 1149* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1150 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1151 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1152 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1153
2b2ccd0c 1154 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1155 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1156 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1157 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1158 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1159
1160 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1161 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1162 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1163 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1164 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1165 interfaces should be used instead.
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1167Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1168
1169* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1170 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1171 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1172 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1173 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1174 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1175 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1176 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1177
1178* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1179 removed.
1180
1181* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1182 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1183 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1184 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1185
1186* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1187 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1188 default.
1189
1190 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1191 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1192 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1194 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1196 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1197 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1198 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1199 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1200
1201* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1202 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1203 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1204 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1205
1206* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1207 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1209* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1210 exported by accident.
1211
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1212* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1213 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1214 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1215
1216* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1217 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1218 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1219 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1220
1221* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1222
1223* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1224
1225* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1226 free instead.
1227
1228* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1229 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1230
1231* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1232 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1233
1234* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1235 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1236 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1237 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1238 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1239 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1240 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1241 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1242
1243* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1244 synced with the kernel:
1245
1246 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1247 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1248
1249 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1250 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1251 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1252
1253 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1254 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1255
1256Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1257
1258* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1259 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1260 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1261
7e368000 1262* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1265 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1267 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1268 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1269 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1270 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1271 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1274
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1276 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1277
1278* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1279 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1280
1281* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1282 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1283 (CVE-2010-3192).
1284
1285* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1286 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1288The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1290 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1291 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1292 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1293 fields
1294 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1295 (CVE-2010-3192)
1296 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1297 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1298 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1299 ld.bfd is available
1300 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1301 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1302 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1303 x86 and other generic code
1304 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1305 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1306 incorrect
1307 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1308 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1309 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1310 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1311 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1312 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1313 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1314 resolver
1315 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1316 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1317 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1318 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1319 chillu characters
1320 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1321 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1322 receiving data
1323 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1324 whitespace
1325 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1326 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1327 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1328 for Peru
1329 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1330 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1331 failures consistently
1332 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1333 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1334 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1335 frame-pointer on i386
1336 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1337 register
1338 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1339 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1340 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1341 generic c code is used
1342 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1343 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1344 around 4000
1345 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1346 (CVE-2017-12133)
1347 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1348 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1349 with -lieee
1350 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1351 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1352 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1353 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1354 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1355 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1356 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1357 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1358 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1359 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1360 remove()
1361 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1362 checked for errors.
1363 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1364 new posix_spawn implementation
1365 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1366 leads to lower CPU frequency
1367 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1368 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1369 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1370 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1371 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1372 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1373 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1374 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1375 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1376 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1377 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1378 not support gethostbyname4_r
1379 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1380 switching
1381 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1382 arenas
1383 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1384 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1385 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1386 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1387 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1388 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1389 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1390 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1391 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1392 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1393 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1394 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1395 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1396 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1397 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1398 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1399 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1400 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1401 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1402 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1403 retry value
1404 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1405 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1406 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1407 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1408 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1409 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1410 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1411 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1412 [21537] libc:
1413 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1414 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1415 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1416 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1417 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1418 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1419 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1420 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1421 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1422 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1423 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1424 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1425 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1426 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1427 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1428 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1429 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1430 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1431 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1432 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1433 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1434 issue on x86-64
1435 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1436 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1437 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1438 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1439 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1440 construction
1441 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1442 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1443 between_2_3
1444 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1445 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1446 conditions
1447 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1448 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1449 Hindi Locale
1450 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1451 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1452 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1453 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1454 locale
1455 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1456 leading to relocation crash
1457 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1458 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1459 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1460 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1461 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1462 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1463 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1464 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1465 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1466 locale
1467 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1468 locale
1469 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1470 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1471 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1472 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1473 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1474 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1475 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1476 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1477 strings
1478 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1479 protector=all
1480 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1481 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1482 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1483 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1484 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1485 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1486 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1487 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1488 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1489 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1490 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1491 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1492 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1493 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1494 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1495 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1496 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1497 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1498 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1499 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1500 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1501 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1502 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1503 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1504 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1505 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1506 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1507 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1508 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1509 with unicode 9.0
1510 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1511 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1512 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1513 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1514 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1515
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1517Version 2.25
1518
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1519* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1520 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1521 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1522 Library.
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1524* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1525 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1526 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1527 the GNU C Library.
1528
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1529* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1530 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1531 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1532 the GNU C Library.
1533
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1534* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1535 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1536 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1537 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1538 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1539 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1540 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1541 will not.
1542
1543 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1544 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1545 many years.
1546
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1547* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1548 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1549 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1550
1551 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1552 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1553 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1554 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1555 problem.
1556
ec94343f 1557* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1558 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1559 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1560
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1561* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1562 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1563 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1564 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1565 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1566 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1567 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1568 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1569 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1570 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1571 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1572 WINT_WIDTH.
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1574* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1575
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1576 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1577
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1578 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1579 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1580 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1581
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1582 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1583 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1584
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1585 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1586 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1587
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1588 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1589
29cb9293 1590 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1591
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1592 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1593 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1594
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1595 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1596
eb3c12c7 1597 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1598 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1599
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1600* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1601 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1602
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1603* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1604 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1605 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1606
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1607* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1608 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1609 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1610 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1611 effects of the memory clear).
1612
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1613* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1614 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1615 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1616 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1617
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1618* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1619 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1620 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1621 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1622 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1623 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1624
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1625* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1626 have been added.
1627
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1628* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1629 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1630 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1631 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1632 as large as several megabytes.
1633
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1634* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1635 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1636 been removed.
1637
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1638* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1639 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1640 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1641 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1642 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1643 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1644 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1645
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1646* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1647 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1648 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1649 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1650
099191b1 1651* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1652 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1653 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1654 Internet.
1655
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1656* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1657 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1658 They were already unimplemented.
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1660* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1661 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1662 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1663 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1664
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1665* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1666 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1667 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1668 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1669 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1670
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1671* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1672 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1673 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1674 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1675 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1676
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1677* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1678 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1679 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1680 did not reflect that.
1681
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1682* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1683 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1684 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1685 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1686 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1687 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1688 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1689 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1690
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1691* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1692 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1693 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1694 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1695
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1696* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1697 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1698 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1699 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1700
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1701* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1702 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1703 guarantees.
1704
1705* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1706 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1707 make state changes.
1708
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1709Security related changes:
1710
fc82b0a2 1711* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1712 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1713 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1714 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1715 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1717* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1718 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1719 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1720 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1721 (CVE-2015-5180)
1722
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1723The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1724
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1725 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1726 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1727 protector-all
1728 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1729 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1730 before it started waiting
1731 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1732 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1733 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1734 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1735 wrong type
1736 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1737 library linked with pthread
1738 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1739 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1740 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1741 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1742 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1743 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1744 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1745 when it shouldnt
1746 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1747 not
1748 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1749 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1750 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1751 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1752 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1753 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1754 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1755 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1756 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1757 termination
1758 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1759 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1760 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1761 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1762 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1763 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1764 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1765 causes a segmentation fault
1766 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1767 linking
1768 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1769 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1770 uninitialized GOT
1771 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1772 versions
1773 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1774 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1775 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1776 is always true.
1777 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1778 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1779 modes
1780 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1781 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1782 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1783 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1784 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1785 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1786 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1787 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1788 libpthread.a
1789 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1790 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1791 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1792 _res_hconf
1793 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1794 information.
1795 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1796 penalty
1797 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1798 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1799 cause transition penalty
1800 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1801 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1802 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1803 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1804 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1805 mcount.oS)
1806 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1807 Checking
1808 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1809 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1810 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1811 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1812 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1813 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1814 multi-arch
1815 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1816 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1817 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1818 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1819 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1820 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1821 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1822 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1823 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1824 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1825 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1826 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1827 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1828 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1829 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1830 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1831 glibc
1832 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1833 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1834 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1835 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1836 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1837 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1838 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1839 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1840 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1841 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1842 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1843 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1844 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1845 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1846 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1847 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1848 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1849 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1850 RES_USE_INET6
1851 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1852 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1853 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1854 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1855 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1856 wrong condition
1857 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1858 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1859 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1860 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1861 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1862 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1863 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1864 clang
1865 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1866 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1867 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1868 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1869 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1871Version 2.24
1872
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1873* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1874 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1875 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1876 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1877 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1878 architectures.
1879
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MF
1880* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1881 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1882 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1883
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1884* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1885 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1886
b49ab5f4
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1887* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1888 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1889 instead of “union wait”.
1890
ced8f893
SG
1891* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1892 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1893 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1894 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1895 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1896 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1897 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1898
2ba3cfa1
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1899* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1900 API.
1901
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1902* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1903 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1904 drop it.
6a54bcda 1905
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1906* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1907 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1908 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1909 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1910 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1911 extensions.
1912
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1913Security related changes:
1914
f5b3338d
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1915* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1916 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1917 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1918
4ab2ab03
FW
1919* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1920 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1921 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1922 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1923
5171f307
FW
1924* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1925 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1926 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1927
bc779a1a
FW
1928* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1929 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1930 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1931
fab38231
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1932* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1933 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1934 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1935 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1936
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1937The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1938
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1939 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1940 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1941 of MS-DOS.
1942 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1943 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1944 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1945 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1946 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1947 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1948 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1949 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1950 CLDR data
1951 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1952 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1953 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1954 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1955 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1956 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1957 romanisation
1958 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1959 and +/-
1960 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1961 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1962 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1963 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1964 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1965 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1966 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1967 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1968 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1969 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1970 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1971 all locales
1972 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1973 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1974 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1975 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1976 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1977 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1978 execute
1979 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1980 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1981 -Wsystem-headers
1982 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1983 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1984 Romanian locale data
1985 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1986 symbol
1987 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1988 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1989 language
1990 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1991 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1992 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1993 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1994 machine
1995 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1996 description
1997 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1998 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1999 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2000 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2001 when using RTLD_NEXT
2002 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2003 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2004 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2005 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2006 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2007 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2008 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2009 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2010 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2011 Excavator core
2012 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2013 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2014 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2015 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2016 double range
2017 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2018 part zero incorrect
2019 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2020 equality tests
2021 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2022 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2023 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2024 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2025 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2026 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2027 glibc-2.22
2028 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2029 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2030 'tst-numeric.c'
2031 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2032 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2033 low part
2034 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2035 result
2036 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2037 unaligned stack
2038 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2039 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2040 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2041 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2042 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2043 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2044 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2045 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2046 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2047 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2048 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2049 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2050 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2051 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2052 modes
2053 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2054 server addresses
2055 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2056 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2057 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2058 response to getaddrinfo
2059 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2060 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2061 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2062 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2063 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2064 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2065 sometimes incorrect
2066 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2067 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2068 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2069 record types
2070 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2071 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2072 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2073 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2074 (CVE-2016-3075)
2075 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2076 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2077 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2078 resolving symbols
2079 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2080 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2081 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2082 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2083 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2084 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2085 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2086 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2087 gethosts
2088 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2089 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2090 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2091 (CVE-2016-3706)
2092 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2093 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2094 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2095 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2096 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2097 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2098 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2099 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2100 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2101 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2102 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2103 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2104 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2105 executable
2106 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2107 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2108 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2109 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2110 XPG3
2111 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2112 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2113 (CVE-2016-4429)
2114 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2115 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2116 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2117 AS not supporting AVX512
2118 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2119 sNaN argument
2120 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2121 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2122 argument
2123 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2124 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2125 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2126 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2127 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2128 eax=0x80000001
2129 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2130 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2131 subnormals
2132 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2133 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2134 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2135 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2136 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2137 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2138 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2139 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2140 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2141 input
2142 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2143 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2144 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2145 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2146 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2147 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2148 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2149 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2150 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2151 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2152 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2153 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2154 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2155 double rounding
2156 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2157 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2158 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2159 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2160 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2161 (Only arm/linux)
2162 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2163 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2164 fallbacks
2165 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2166 "invalid" exceptions
2167 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2168 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2169 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2170 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2171 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2172 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2173 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2174 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2175 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2177Version 2.23
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2179* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2180 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2181 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2182 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2183 89, 16061, and 18568.
2184
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2185* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2186 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2187 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2188 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2189 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2190 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2191 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2192
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2193* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2194 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2195 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2196
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2197* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2198 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2199 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2200 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2201 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2202 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2203 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2204
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2205* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2206 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2207 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2208 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2209 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2210 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2211 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2212 Ericsson.)
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2214* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2215 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2216 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2217 independent of the GNU C Library.
2218
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2219* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2220 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2222* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2223 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2224 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2225 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2226 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2227 Linux kernel.
2228
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2229* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2230 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2232* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2233 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2234 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2235 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2236 defining their own copy.
2237
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2238* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2239 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2240 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2242Security related changes:
2243
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2244* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2245 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2246
2247* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2248 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2249 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2250 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2251 (CVE-2015-8777)
2252
2253* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2254 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2255
2256* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2257 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2258
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2259* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2260 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2261 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2263* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2264 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2265 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2266 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2267 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2268 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2269 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2270 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2271 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2272 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2273 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2274 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2275 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2276
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2279 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2280 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2281 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2282 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2283 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2284 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2285 use `mkstemp'
2286 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2287 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2288 overflow/underflow errors
2289 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2290 overflow/underflow
2291 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2292 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2293 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2294 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2295 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2296 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2297 are not contiguous
2298 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2299 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2300 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2301 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2302 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2303 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2304 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2305 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2306 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2307 all exceptions
2308 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2309 arguments
2310 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2311 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2312 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2313 should include
2314 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2315 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2316 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2317 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2318 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2319 GNU/Linux
2320 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2321 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2322 arguments
2323 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2324 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2325 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2326 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2327 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2328 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2329 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2330 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2331 rounding results
2332 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2333 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2334 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2335 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2336 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2337 fails
2338 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2339 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2340 block boundary
2341 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2342 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2343 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2344 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2345 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2346 4.7?
2347 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2348 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2349 (related to lock elision)
2350 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2351 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2352 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2353 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2354 (CVE-2015-8779)
2355 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2356 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2357 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2358 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2359 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2360 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2361 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2362 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2363 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2364 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2365 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2366 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2367 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2368 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2369 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2370 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2371 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2372 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2373 contains a vector instruction exception.
2374 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2375 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2376 locales
2377 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2378 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2379 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2380 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2381 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2382 missing break ?
2383 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2384 32bit processes
2385 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2386 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2387 infinity
2388 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2389 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2390 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2391 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2392 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2393 be forced unloaded
2394 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2395 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2396 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2397 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2398 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2399 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2400 statically too large
2401 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2402 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2403 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2404 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2405 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2406 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2407 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2408 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2409 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2410 FUTEX_SHARED
2411 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2412 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2413 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2414 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2415 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2416 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2417 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2418 opendir()
2419 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2420 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2421 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2422 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2423 signgam
2424 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2425 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2426 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2427 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2428 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2429 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2430 dependencies
2431 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2432 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2433 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2434 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2435 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2436 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2437 (CVE-2015-8776)
2438 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2439 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2440 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2441 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2442 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2443 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2444 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2445 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2446 contention
2447 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2448 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2449 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2450 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2451 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2452 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2453 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2454 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2455 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2456 rounding modes
2457 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2458 ILP32
2459 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2460 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2461 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2462 threshold
2463 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2464 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2465 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2466 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2467 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2468 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2469 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2470 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2471 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2472 pthread_setaffinity_np
2473 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2474 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2475 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2476 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2477 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2478 prelink
2479 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2480 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2481 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2482 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2483 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2484 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2485 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2486 bits/mathcalls.h
2487 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2488 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2489 for C99-based standards
2490 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2491 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2492 math-only
2493 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2494 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2495 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2496 disabled
2497 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2498 "inexact" exceptions
2499 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2500 arguments
2501 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2502 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2503 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2504 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2505 rules
2506 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2507 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2508 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2509 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2510 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2511 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2512 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2513 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2514 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2515 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2516 from 32bit
2517 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2518 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2519 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2520 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2521 subnormals
2522 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2523 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2524 error on 32-bit architectures
2525 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2526 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2527 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2528 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2529 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2530 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2531 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2532 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2533 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2534 -Os
2535 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2536 CPU's.
2537 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2538 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2539 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2540 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2541 architectures
2542 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2544Version 2.22
2545
2546* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2547
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2549 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2550 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2551 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2552 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2553 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2554 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2555 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2556 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2557 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2558 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2559 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2560 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2561 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2562 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2563 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2564 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2565 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2566 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2567 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2568
f7fba805
SL
2569* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2570 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2571
2959eda9
AS
2572* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2573 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2574 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2575 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2576 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2577 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2578
42261ad7
FW
2579* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2580 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2581 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2582 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2583 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2584
afcd9480
AM
2585* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2586 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2587 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2588
4a4839c9
AO
2589* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2590 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2591 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2592 17998.
2593
b13b96ca
AS
2594* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2595 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2596 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2597
2598* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2599 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2600 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2601 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2602 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2603 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2604 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2605 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2606
2607* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2608 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2609 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2610 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2611
2612* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2613 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2614 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2615
2616* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2617 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2618
2619* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2620 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2621 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2622
a03ba363 2623 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2624 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2625 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2626\f
58b930ae
SP
2627Version 2.21
2628
2629* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2630
042e1521 2631 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2632 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2633 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2634 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2635 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2636 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2637 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2638 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2639 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2640 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2641 17892.
2642
46d54873
FW
2643* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2644 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2645 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2646 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2647 intended.
042e1521
CD
2648
2649* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2650 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2651 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2652 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2653 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2654 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2655
522e6ee3
CLT
2656* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2657
d3b00f46
AZ
2658* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2659 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2660 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2661
8d2c0a59
AZ
2662* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2663 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2664 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2665 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2666 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2667 effects being visible outside transactions.
2668
dc400d7b
RE
2669* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2670 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2671
0f9dfe04
L
2672* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2673
a39208bd
CD
2674* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2675 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2676 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2677 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2678 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2679
a5357b7c
JL
2680* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2681 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2682
e54db0ea
AM
2683* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2684 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2685 format.
11e3417a 2686
4863355a
JM
2687* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2688 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2689 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2690
a4ecc9eb
JM
2691* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2692 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2693
0d560bbf 2694* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2695
2696* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2697 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2698 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2699 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2700
2701* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2702 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2703
2704* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2705 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2706 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2707 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2708 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2709 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2710 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2711 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2712 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2713 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2714 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2715 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2716 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2717
2718 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2719 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2720 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2721 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2722 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2723\f
d5b396c1
AM
2724Version 2.20
2725
2726* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2727
6a9350c8
JM
2728 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2729 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2730 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2731 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2732 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2733 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2734 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2735 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2736 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2737 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2738 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2739 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2740 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2741 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2742 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2743
95ee7fb1
SL
2744* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2745 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2746 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2747 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2748 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2749 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2750 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2751 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2752 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2753 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2754
0961f7e1
JL
2755* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2756 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2757 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2758 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2759 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2760
f940b965
RE
2761* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2762
d0f5b3f8
JM
2763* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2764 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2765
d6fe5e58
JM
2766* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2767 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2768 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2769 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2770 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2771 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2772
464263cc
JM
2773* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2774 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2775
2776* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2777 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2778 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2779 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2780 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2781 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2782 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2783
2784* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2785
2786* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2787 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2788 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2789 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2790 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2791 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2792 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2793
2794* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2795 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2796 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2797 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2798 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2799
2800* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2801 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2802 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2803
2804* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2805 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2806 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2807 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2808
2809* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2810 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2811 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2812 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2813 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2814 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2815 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2816 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2817
2818* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2819 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2820 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2821 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2822 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2823 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2824 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2825 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2826 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2827
2828* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2829 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2830 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2831 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2832 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2833 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2834
2835* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2836 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2837 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2838 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2839\f
2840Version 2.19
2841
2842* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2843
fd2f9486
JM
2844 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2845 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2846 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2847 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2848 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2849 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2850 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2851 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2852 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2853 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2854 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2855 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2856 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2857 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2858 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2859 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2860 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2861 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2862
11520a57
CD
2863* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2864 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2865
2fe16229
CD
2866* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2867 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2868 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2869 extension which uses __block.
2870
303e567a
SP
2871* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2872 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2873 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2874 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2875 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2876
141f3a77
SP
2877* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2878 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2879 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2880 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2881 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2882
2883* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2884 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2885 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2886 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2887 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2888
2889* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2890 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2891 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2892
ba0d798c
WN
2893* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2894 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2895 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2896 #15856, #15857).
2897
7cbcdb36
SP
2898* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2899 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2900
82bab04b 2901* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2902 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2903
c5f840fd
MB
2904* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2905
3e181dda
CD
2906* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2907 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2908
3e181dda 2909* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2910
8a05c252
CL
2911* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2912
6055173a
JM
2913* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2914 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2915 for which the C library was built.
2916
b125d3e5
JM
2917* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2918 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2919 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2920 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2921 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2922 in the following circumstances:
2923
2924 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2925
2926 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2927 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2928
d4f66d37
JM
2929* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2930 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2931
3e181dda
CD
2932* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2933 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2934
ffb89e53
AO
2935* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2936
5d29ccce
SP
2937* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2938 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2939
8b7d57cd 2940* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2941
2942* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2943
fd712ef3 2944* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2945
c688b419
JM
2946* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2947 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2948 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2949 disable some of those declarations.
2950
7011c262 2951* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2952 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2953 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2954
2955* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2956 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2957
2958* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2959 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2960 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2961 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2962 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2963 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2964 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2965 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2966 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2967 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2968 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2969 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2970 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
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2971\f
2972Version 2.18
2973
2974* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2975
17db6e8d 2976 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2977 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2978 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2979 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2980 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2981 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2982 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2983 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2984 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2985 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2986 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2987 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2988 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2989 15755, 15759.
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2990
2991* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2992 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2993 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2994 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2995 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2996 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2997
5b535ac4
AS
2998* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2999 #15078).
3000
1cef1b19
AS
3001* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3002 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3003
55e4107b
SP
3004* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3005 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3006 destructor calls to glibc.
3007
e5c74c63
SP
3008* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3009 output.
3010
3011* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3012 non-x86 architectures.
3013
e7521973
JM
3014* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3015
3016* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3017
3018* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3019 Richard Henderson.
3020
3021* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3022
3023* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3024 Richard Henderson.
3025
3026* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3027 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3028
8cfdb7e0
SP
3029* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3030
57267616
TS
3031* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3032 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3033
c204ab28
SP
3034* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3035 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3036
0748546f
PE
3037* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3038 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3039 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3040
61dd6208
SP
3041* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3042 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3043 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3044
3045* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3046 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3047 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3048 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3049 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3050
3051* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3052 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3053
3054* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3055\f
3056Version 2.17
3057
3058* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3059
80ceeaee 3060 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3061 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3062 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3063 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3064 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3065 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3066 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3067 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3068 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3069 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3070 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3071 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3072 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3073 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3074 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3075
95b4f1b6
SE
3076* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3077
14bc93a9
JL
3078* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3079 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3080
b54eb3cb
JM
3081* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3082 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3083
7e2bd01f
MS
3084* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3085
08f43f9b
AK
3086* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3087 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3088 zEnterprise z196.
3089 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3090
84b3fd84
FW
3091* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3092 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3093 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3094
815e6fa3
GB
3095* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3096 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3097
400726de
MK
3098* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3099 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3100
7aab07e4 3101* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3102 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3103
15d0da8c
WS
3104* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3105 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3106
3cc3ef96
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3107* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3108 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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3109 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3110 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3111
b54eb3cb
JM
3112* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3113 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3114
85429b1a 3115* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3116 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3117 default.
3118
b54eb3cb
JM
3119* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3120 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3121 information in --help and --version output.
3122
050af9c4
SP
3123* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3124 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3125 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3126
89a3ad0b
AO
3127* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3128 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3129 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3130 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3131 when the mode is enabled.
3132
6e6249d0
RM
3133* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3134 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3135 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3136 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3137 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3138 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3139 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3140
d9286582
NK
3141* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3142 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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3143\f
3144Version 2.16
3145
3146* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3147
a8133e19
JM
3148 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3149 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3150 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3151 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3152 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3153 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3154 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3155 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3156 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3157 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3158 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3159 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3160 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3161 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3162 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3163 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3164 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3165 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3166 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3167 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3168 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3169 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3170 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3171
a086b4d6
L
3172* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3173 configuring glibc with:
3174 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3175 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3176 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3177
380d7e87
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3178* ISO C11 support:
3179
3180 + define static_assert
3181
3182 + do not declare gets
3183
3184 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3185
3186 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3187 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3188 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3189 implementation.
8d44e150 3190
74033a25 3191 + timespec_get added
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3192
3193 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3194
ac097f5c
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3195 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3196
16dd419d
UD
3197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
9dc4e1fb 3199* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3200
3201* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3202
3203* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3204 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3205
3206* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3208
3209* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3210 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3211 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3212 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3213 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3214
21708942 3215* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3216 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3217 before 2.6.
83678f76 3218
edb00e4d
RH
3219* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3220 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3221 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3222
83678f76 3223* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3224
3225* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3226 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3227 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3228 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3229 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3230
3231* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3232
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3233* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3234 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3235
3236* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3237
3238* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3239 without a previously built glibc.
3240
3241* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3242 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3243
3244* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3245 now supported for ARM processors.
3246
3247* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3248 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3249 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3250
3251* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3252
3253* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3254 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3255 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3256 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3257
3258* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3259 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3260 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3261 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3262
3263* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3264 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3265 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3266 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3267 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3268
3269* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3270 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3271 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3272 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3273\f
e80fab37 3274Version 2.15
11988f8f 3275
c0244a9d
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3276* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3277
aebae053
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3278 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3279 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3280 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3281 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3282 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3283 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3284 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3285
11988f8f
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3286* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3288
3289* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3290 and support for initgroups lookups.
3291 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3292
3293* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3294 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3295
3296* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3297 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3298
fc2ee42a
LD
3299* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3300 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3301 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3302
d42964a0 3303* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3304 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3305
1d3e4b61
UD
3306* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3307 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3308 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3309
c55fbd1e
UD
3310* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3311 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3312
3313* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3315
3316* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3318
3319* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3320 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3321
3322* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3323 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3324
3325* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3327
3328* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3329
3330* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3331 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3332
f0b264f1
AZ
3333* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3334 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3335
6b64057b 3336* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3337\f
dded88cd 3338Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3339
50934221
UD
3340* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3341
553149f6 3342 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3343 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3344 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3345 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3346 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3347 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3348 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3349 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3350 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3351 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3352
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3353* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3354 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3355 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3356 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3357
3358 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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3359 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3360 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3362
c6489db3 3363* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3364 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3365
72d1dddb 3366* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3367 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3368
3369* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3370
3371* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
3373
3374* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3375 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3376 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3377 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3378\f
4828935d
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3379Version 2.13
3380
ac2b484c
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3381* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3382
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3383 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3384 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3385 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3386 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3387 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3388
10b3bedc 3389* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3390
ac2b484c 3391* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3393* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3394 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3397Version 2.12
3398
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3400
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3401 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3402 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3403 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3404 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3405 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3406 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3407 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3408 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3410* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3412* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3413
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3414* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3415
3416* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3417 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3418 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3419
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3421 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3422 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3423 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3424 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3425
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3429
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3431
3432 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3433 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3434 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3435 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3436 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3437 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3438
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3439* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3440 mkostemps64
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3441 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3442
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3444 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3445
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3446* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3447 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3448
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3449* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3450
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9d36a6c4 3452 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3453 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3455
9d36a6c4 3456 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3458
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3459* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3460 strstr, strcasestr.
3461 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3462
3463* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3464 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3465
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3466* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3467 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3468
3469* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3471
3472* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3473 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3474 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3475 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3476 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3477 necessity is every process again.
3478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3479
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3481 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3482
3483* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3484 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3485
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3486* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3487 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3489
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3493
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3495
3496 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3497 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3498 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3499 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3500 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3501
bb066545 3502* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3504
425ce2ed 3505* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3507
1fdd89a7 3508* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3509 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3511* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3512 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3514* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3517* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3519
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3520* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3521 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3522
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3523* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3524 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3525
3526* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3527 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3528 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3529
735be400 3530* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3532* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3534
3535* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3536 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3537 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3538
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3539* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3541
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3542* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3543 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3544 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3545 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3546 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3547 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3549Version 2.9
3550
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3551* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3552
3553 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3554 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3555 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3556 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3557 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3558
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3560 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3561
3562* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3563 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3565* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3566 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3568* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3569 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3571
3572* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3573 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3577* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3578 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3580* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3581 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3582 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3584
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3585* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3586 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3588* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3589 Sinhala)
48b22986 3590 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3592* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3595
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3596* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3597
3598 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3599 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3600 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3601 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3602 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3603 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3604 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3605
e038616f 3606* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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3610* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3611 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3612
3613* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3614
3615* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3616 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3617
3618* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3619 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3620
3621* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3622 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3623 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3624
3625* Faster memset for x86-64.
3626 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3627
3628* Faster memcpy on x86.
3629 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3630
3631* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3632 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3634* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3635 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3637Version 2.7
3638
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3639* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3640
3641 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3642 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3643 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3644 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3645 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3646
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3647* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3648 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3649
3650* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3651
3652* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3653 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3654 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3655
3656* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3657 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3658
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3660 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3661
3662* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3663
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3664* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3665 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3666
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3667* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3668 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3669
3670* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3671 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3672
3673* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3674
3675* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3678* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3679 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3680 yo_NG.
3681
3682+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3688
3689 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3690 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3691 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3692 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3693 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3694 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3695 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3696 4702, 4858
3697
bce20b9a 3698* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3700* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3701
b21fa963 3702* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3704Version 2.5
3705
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3707
3708 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3709 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3710 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3711 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3712 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3713 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3714 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3715 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3716 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3717
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3719 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3722* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3724
871b9158 3725* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3727* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3729* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3730 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3731 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3732 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3733 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3734
07bfff20 3735* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3736 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3737 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3739
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3740* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3741 Ulrich Drepper.
3742
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3743* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3744
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3745* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3746 Ulrich Drepper.
3747
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3748* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3749
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3750* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3751 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3754
3755* More overflow detection functions.
3756
3757* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3758 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3760 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3761 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3762 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3763 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3764 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3765 by Masahide Washizawa.
3766
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3767* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3768 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3770* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3771 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3772 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3773 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3775* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3776 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3777
3778* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3779
3780* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3781 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3782 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3783
3784* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3785 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3786
3787* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3788 for compatibility with some other systems.
3789
3790* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3792Version 2.3.6
3793
3794* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3795
3796 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3797 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3798 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3799 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3800 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3801 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3802
3803 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3804
3805* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3806
3807* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3809Version 2.3.5
3810
3811* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3812
3813 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3814 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3815 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3816 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3817
3818 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3820Version 2.3.4
3821
3822* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3824
3825* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3826 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3828
3829* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3830 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3831
0325dd20 3832* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3833 efficiently.
3834 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3835
3836* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3837 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3838 handling data.
3839
3840* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3841 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3842 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3843
3844* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3845 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3846
3847* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3848 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3849 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3850 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3851
3852* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3853 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3854 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3855 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3856
3857* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3858 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3859 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3860 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3861 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3863Version 2.3.3
3864
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3865* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3866 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3867
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3868* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3869 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3870
69be6aaf 3871* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3872 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3873
3874* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3876
3877* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3878 by Roland McGrath.
3879
c5af724c 3880* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3881 and Ulrich Drepper.
3882
3883* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3884 RFC 3484.
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3886Version 2.3.2
3887
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3888* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3889 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3890 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3891 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3892 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3893 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3894 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3895 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3896 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3897
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3898* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3899 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3900 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3901
3902* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3903
3904* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3905 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3907* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3908 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3909
52a16e58 3910* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3912* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3913 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3914
3915* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3916 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3917 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3918 of weak definition in ld.so.
3919
3920* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3921 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3922
3923* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3924 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3928* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3929 charsets.
3930
3931* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3932 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3933
bb0ec5bd 3934* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3935 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3936
3937* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3938 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3939
bb0ec5bd 3940* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3941 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3942 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3943
3944* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3945 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3946
bb0ec5bd 3947* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3948 implementation of regex.
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3949
3950* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3951 Unicode 3.2.
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3953* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3954 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3956* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3957 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3958 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3959
3960* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3961 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3962
3963* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3964 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3965 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3966
3967* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3968 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3969
3970* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3971 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3972 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3973
3974* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3976Version 2.2.6
3977
3978* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3979 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3980
3981* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3982 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3984Version 2.2.5
3985
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3986* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3987 128-bit long double format.
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3989* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3990 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3991
ad2e4f18 3992* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3993
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3994* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3995
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3996* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3997 as well.
3998
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3999* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4000 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4001
4002* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4004Version 2.2.4
4005
2995f70e 4006* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4007 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4008
4009* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4010 support Unicode 3.1.
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4011
4012* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4013 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4014
69d5f925 4015* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4016
69d5f925 4017* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4018 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4019 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4020
4021* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4022 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4023
4024* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4025 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4026
4027* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4029Version 2.2.3
4030
1746f2b0 4031* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4032 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4033 in float, double, and long double format.
4034
f128331c 4035* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4036 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4037 128-bit long double format.
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4039* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4040 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4041 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4042 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4043
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4044* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4045 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4046 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4047
4048* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4049 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4050
4051* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4052 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4053
4054* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4055 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4056 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4057
4058* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4059 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4060
4061* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4062 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4063
4064* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4066Version 2.2.2
4067
464d97ec 4068* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4069 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4070 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4071 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4072 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4073 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4074 other headers.
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4075
4076* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4077 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4078
4079* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4080 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4081 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4082 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4083
4084* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4085 locales. While
4086
4087 locale -a
4088
4089 only lists the names of the supported locales
4090
4091 locale -a --verbose
4092
4093 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4094 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4096Version 2.2.1
4097
4098* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4099 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4100 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4101 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4102 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4103
4104 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4105
4106 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4107
4108 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4109
4110* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4111 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4112 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4113
4114* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4115 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4116
4117* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4118 changed from the default "C" locale.
4119
4120* The usual bug fixes.
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4122Version 2.2
4123
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4124* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4125 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4126 is in progress.
4127
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4128* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4129
793bd4d9 4130* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4131
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4132 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4133 obviously requires a database library being available.
4134
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4135* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4136
abbffdf9 4137* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4138
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4139* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4140 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4141
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4142* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4143
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4144* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4145 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4146 and Mark Kettenis.
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4147
4148 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4149 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4150 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4151
a00c3ca9 4152 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4153 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4154
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4155* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4156 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4157 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4158
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4159* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4160 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4161 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4163
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4164 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4165 structures for the wide character tables.
4166
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4167* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4168
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4169* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4170
4171* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4172
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4173* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4174 and Yutaka Niibe.
4175
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4176* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4177
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4178* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4179
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4180* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4181
4182* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4183
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4184* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4185
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4186* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4187 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4188 implemented for Linux.
4189
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4190* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4191 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4192 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4193 versions.
4194
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4195* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4196 Masahide Washizawa.
4197
8f3f1e09 4198* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4200Version 2.1.3
4201
4202* bug fixes
4203
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4205Version 2.1.2
4206
4207* bug fixes
4208
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4210Version 2.1.1
4211
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4212* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4213
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4214* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4215
407d26b7 4216* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4217
4218* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4219
407d26b7 4220* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4221
407d26b7 4222* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4223
4224* Update timezone data files.
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4226* lots of charmaps corrections
4227
4228* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4229
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4231Version 2.1
4232
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4233* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4234 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4235 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4236 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4237 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4238 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4239
c84142e8 4240* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4241 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4242
1fb05e3d 4243* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4244 symbol level.
4245
4246* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4247 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4248
cbdee279 4249* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4250
4251* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4252 numbers.
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cbdee279 4254* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4255
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4256* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4257 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4258
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4259* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4260 library.
4261
e61abf83 4262* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4263 functions from ISO C 9X.
4264
4265* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4266 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4267
a5a0310d 4268* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4270* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4271
4272* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4273
440d13e2 4274* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4275
4276* Optimized string functions have been added.
4277
4278* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4279
4280* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4281
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4282* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4283 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4284
4285 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4286 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4287
0dee6738 4288 user system wall
48244d09 4289
0dee6738 4290 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4291
0dee6738 4292 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4293
0dee6738 4294 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4296 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4297
4298 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4299
4300 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4303 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4304 horribly slow.
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4306 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4307 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4309* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4311* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4313* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4314 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4315
4316* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4318* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4319 Bambrough.
4320
4321* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4322 latest draft standards.
4323
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4325
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4327~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4328addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4329alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4331argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4332argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4333argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4334argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4335argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4336argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4337argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4338argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4339argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4341authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4342authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4343backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4344backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4345backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4346cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4347cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4348cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4349cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4350cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4351cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4352capget NEW: kernel
4353capset NEW: kernel
4354carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4355cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4356cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4357casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4358casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4359casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4360casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4361casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4362casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4363catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4364catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4365catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4366catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4367catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4368catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4370ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4371ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4372ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4373ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4374ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4375ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4376cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4377cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4378cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4379cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4380cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4381cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4382clearerr_locked REMOVED
4383clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4384clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4385clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4386clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4387clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4388clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4389clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4390conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4391conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4392conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4393cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4394cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4395cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4396cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4397cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4398cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4399creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4400crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4402creat64 NEW: LFS
4403csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4404csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4405csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4406csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4407csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4408csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4409csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4410csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4411csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4412ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4413ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4414ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4415ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4416ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4417ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4418des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4419ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4420endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4421exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4422exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4423exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4424exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4425exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4426exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4427fattach NEW: STREAMS
4428fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4429fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4430fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4431fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4432feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4433fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4434fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4435fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4436feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4437feof_locked REMOVED
4438feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4439ferror_locked REMOVED
4440fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4441fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4442fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4443fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4444feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4445fflush_locked REMOVED
4446ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4447ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4448fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4449fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4450fileno_locked REMOVED
4451fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4452fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4453fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4454fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4455fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4456fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4457fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4458fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4459fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4460fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4461fopen64 NEW: LFS
4462fputc_locked REMOVED
4463fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4464fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4465freopen64 NEW: LFS
4466fseeko NEW: Unix98
4467fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4468fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4469fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4470fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4471ftello NEW: Unix98
4472ftello64 NEW: LFS
4473ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4474ftw64 NEW: LFS
4475fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4476gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4477gamma_r REMOVED
4478gammaf_r REMOVED
4479gammal_r REMOVED
4480getchar_locked REMOVED
4481getdate NEW: Unix98
4482getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4483getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4484getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4485getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4487getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4488getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4489getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4490getutxent NEW: Unix98
4491getutxid NEW: Unix98
4492getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4493glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4494globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4495gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4496gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4497grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4498host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4499iconv NEW: iconv
4500iconv_close NEW: iconv
4501iconv_open NEW: iconv
4502if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4503if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4504if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4505if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4506in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4507in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4508inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4509isastream NEW: STREAMS
4510iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4511key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4512key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4513key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4514key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4515key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4516key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4517key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4518key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4519key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4520llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4521llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4522llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4523llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4524llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4525llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4526log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4527log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4528log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4529lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4530lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4531lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4532lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4533lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4534lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4535lseek64 NEW: LFS
4536makecontext NEW: Unix98
4537mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4538mmap64 NEW: LFS
4539moncontrol REMOVED
4540modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4541nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4542nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4543nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4544nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4545nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4546nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4547netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4548netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4549nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4550nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4551nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4552nftw NEW: Unix98
4553nftw64 NEW: LFS
4554open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4555passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4556pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4557pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4558pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4559pread NEW: Unix98
4560pread64 NEW: LFS
4561printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4562printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4563profil_counter REMOVED
4564pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4565pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4566ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4567ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4568putc_locked REMOVED
4569putchar_locked REMOVED
4570putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4571putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4572putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4573pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4574pwrite NEW: Unix98
4575pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4576readdir64 NEW: LFS
4577readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4578remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4579remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4580remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4581round NEW: ISO C 9x
4582roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4583roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4584rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4585scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4586scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4587scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4588scandir64 NEW: LFS
4589sendfile NEW: kernel
4590setcontext NEW: Unix98
4591setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4592setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4593sighold NEW: Unix98
4594sigignore NEW: Unix98
4595sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4596sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4597sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4598sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4599sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4600sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4601sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4602sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4603statfs64 NEW: LFS
4604statvfs NEW: Unix98
4605statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4606strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4607strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4608strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4609strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4610svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4611svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4612svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4613swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4614tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4615tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4616tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4617tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4618tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4619tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4620trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4621truncate64 NEW: LFS
4622truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4623truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4624umount2 NEW: kernel
4625unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4626updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4627user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4628utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4629versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4630versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4631waitid NEW: Unix98
4632wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4633wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4634wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4635wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4636wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4637wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4638wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4639wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4640wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4641wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4642write_profiling REMOVED
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4643xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4644xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4645xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4646xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4647xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4648xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4649xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4650xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4651xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4652xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4653xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4654xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4655xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4656xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4657xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4660Version 2.0.6
4661
4662* more bug fixes
4663
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4664\f
4665Version 2.0.5
4666
4667* more bug fixes
4668
4669* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4670
4671* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4672
4673* rewrite of cbrt function
4674
4675* update of timezone data
4676\f
4677Version 2.0.4
4678
4679* more bug fixes
4680\f
4681Version 2.0.3
4682
4683* more bug fixes
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4685Version 2.0.2
4686
4687* more bug fixes
4688
4689* add atoll function
4690
4691* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4693* fix math functions
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4695Version 2.0.1
4696
4697* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4698
4699* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4700
4701* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4702 the ELF dynamic loader.
4703
4704* support for parallel builds is improved
4705\f
40a4b79f 4706Version 2.0
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4708* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4709 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4710 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4711
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4712* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4713 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4714 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4715 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4716 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4717 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4718 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4719 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4720 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4721 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4722 files in the ELF format.
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4723
4724* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4725 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4726
4727* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4728 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4729 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4730 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4731 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4732 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4733 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4734 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4735 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4736 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4737 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4739* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4740 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4741 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4742 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4743 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4744
f7eac6eb 4745* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4746 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4747 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4748 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4749 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4750
4751* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4752
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4753* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4754 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4755 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4756 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4757 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4758 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4759 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4760 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4761 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4762
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4763* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4764 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4765 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4766
4767* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4768 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4769 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4770
4771* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4772 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4773 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4774 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4775
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4776* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4777 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4778 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4779
4780* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4781 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4782 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4783
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4784* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4785 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4786
f7eac6eb 4787* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4788 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4789 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4790 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4791
4792* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4793 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4794 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4795
71733723 4796* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4797 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4798 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4799 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4800 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4801 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4802 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4803 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4804
4805* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4806 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4807 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4808 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4809 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4810 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4811 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4812
4813* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4814 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4815 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4816 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4817 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4818 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4819
4820* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4821 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4822
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4823* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4824 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4825 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4827* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4828
4829* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4830 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4831 their use is discouraged.
4832
4833* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4834 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4836* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4837 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4838
4839* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4840 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4841
4842* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4843 see <dirent.h>.
4844
4845* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4846 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4847 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4848 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4849 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4850
4851* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4852 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4853 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4854 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4855
4856* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4857 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4858
4859* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4860 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4861 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4862 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4863 number generator.
4864
4865* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4866 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4867
4868* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4869 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4870
71733723 4871* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4872 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4874 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4876* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4877
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4878* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4879 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4880 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4881
4882* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4883 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4885* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4886 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4887 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4888 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4889
4890* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4891 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4892 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4893 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4894 programs already written to use it.)
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4895
4896* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4897 constants.
4898
4899* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4900 with 4.4 BSD.
4901
4902* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4903 a given effective group ID.
4904
4905* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4906 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4907 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4908 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4909
4910* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4911 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4912 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4913 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4914 doing the same thing.
4915
4916* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4917 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4918
4919* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4920 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4921
4922* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4923
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4924* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4925 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4926 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4927 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4928 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4929
4930* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4931 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4933* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4934 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4935 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4936 function.
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4937
4938* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4939
4940* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4941 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4942 strings.
4943
4944* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4945 and writing the utmp file.
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4946
4947* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4948 Thorsten Kukuk.
4949
4950* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4951 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4952 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4953
4954* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4955 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4956
4957* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4958 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4959 specification.
4960
4961* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4962 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4963 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4964 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4965
4966* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4967 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4968 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4969
4970* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4971 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4972 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4973 expression matcher.
4974
4975* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4976 functionality.
4977
4978* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4979 by Ulrich Drepper.
4980
4981* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4982
4983* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4984 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4985 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4987Version 1.09
4988
4989* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4990
4991* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4992 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4993
4994* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4995 want to put themselves in the background.
4996
4997* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4998 run without an operating system.
4999
5000* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5001 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5002
5003* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5004 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5005
5006* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5007
5008* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5009 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5010 have YP (aka NIS).
5011
5012* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5013 conventions.
5014
5015* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5016 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5017\f
5018Version 1.08
5019
5020* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5021 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5022 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5023
5024* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5025 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5026
5027* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5028 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5029
5030* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5031
5032* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5033
5034* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5035 compatibility.
5036
5037* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5038 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5039 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5040
5041* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5042
5043* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5044 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5045 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5046
5047* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5048 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5049 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5050 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5051 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5052 on a block).
5053
5054* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5055 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5056 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5057 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5058 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5059 cross-compiler.
5060
5061* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5062 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5063\f
5064Version 1.07
5065
5066* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5067 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5068
5069* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5070 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5071 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5072
5073* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5074 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5075 address of the last character written.
5076
5077* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5078 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5079
5080* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5081 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5082
5083* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5084 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5085 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5086 you dereference this pointer.
5087
5088* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5089 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5090
5091* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5092 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5093 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5094 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5095
5096* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5097 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5098 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5099 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5100\f
5101Version 1.06
5102
5103* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5104 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5105 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5106 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5107 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5108
5109* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5110
5111* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5112
5113* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5114 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5115
5116* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5117 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5118
5119* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5120 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5121
5122* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5123 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5124 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5125 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5126 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5127
5128* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5129 to the error code in `errno'.
5130
5131* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5132 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5133 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5134 malloc'd string.
5135
5136* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5137 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5138 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5139
5140* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5141 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5143Version 1.05
5144
5145* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5146 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5147 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5148
5149* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5150 characters.
5151
5152* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5153 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5154
5155* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5156\f
5157Version 1.04
5158
5159* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5160 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5161 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5162 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5163
5164* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5165 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5166 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5167
5168* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5169 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5170
5171* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5172 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5173 made itself into a shared library.
5174
5175* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5176 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5177
5178* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5179 with limited length.
5180
5181* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5182
5183* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5184
5185* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5186
5187* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5188 function for traversing a directory tree.
5189
5190* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5191 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5192 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5193 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5194
5195* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5196 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5197
5198* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5199
5200* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5201 things to your strings.
5202
5203* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5204
5205* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5206 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5207 supporting those systems.
5208
5209* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5210 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5211 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5212 configuration files.
5213
5214* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5215 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5216
5217* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5218 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5219 in <strings.h>.)
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5220
5221* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5222 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5223 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5224 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5225 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5226 required storage is not available.
5227
5228* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5229 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5230
5231* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5232 latest files released from Berkeley.
5233\f
5234----------------------------------------------------------------------
5235Copyright information:
5236
09533208 5237Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5238
5239 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5240 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5241 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5242 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5243
5244 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5245 of this document, or of portions of it,
5246 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5247 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5248\f
5249Local variables:
5250version-control: never
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