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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.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28.1
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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).
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25* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
26 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
27 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
28 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
29 copy_file_range function will have to be run on kernels which implement
30 the copy_file_range system call. Support for most architectures was added
31 in version 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
32
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33The following bugs are resolved with this release:
34
5cbb7300 35 [18035] Fix pldd hang
1e5c5303 36 [19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
2373941b 37 [20018] getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters
5473739a 38 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
d948478b 39 [20568] Fix crash in _IO_wfile_sync
fc0e3393 40 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
df11de91 41 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
4b25485f 42 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3e8d8dd5 43 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
2f498f3d 44 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
aa8a3e4c 45 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
69d1e73d 46 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
58559f14 47 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
044c96f0 48 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2339d6a5 49 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
85262025 50 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
e7d22db2 51 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
65010329 52 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
3a67c72c 53 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
aff9b377 54 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
5256ffc5 55 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
4bf5ab31 56 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
e8c13d5f 57 [23844] pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
ce6ba630 58 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
5f1ae50a 59 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
bee4baf6 60 [24018] gettext may return NULL
be62bbb6 61 [24022] riscv may lack <asm/syscalls.h>
198bfee8 62 [24024] strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-error
8f83d095 63 [24027] malloc: Integer overflow in realloc
2a8612b2 64 [24034] tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when using GCC 8
384113d1 65 [24040] riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
492524a6 66 [24097] Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
9aaa0833 67 [24155] x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
60f80624 68 [24161] __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
91b02c5b 69 [24228] old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
059d6750 70 [24476] dlfcn: Guard __dlerror_main_freeres with __libc_once_get (once)
5f7fa9ac 71 [24744] io: Remove the copy_file_range emulation.
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75 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
76 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
77 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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79 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
80 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
81 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
82 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
83 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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85 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
86 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
87 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
88 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
89 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
90 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
91 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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93 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
94 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
95 or command injection issues in applications.
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97 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
98 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
99 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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101Version 2.28
102
103Major new features:
104
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105* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
106 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
107 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
108 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
109 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
110 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
111 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
112 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
113 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
114 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
115 archive or binary locales.
116
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117* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
118 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
119 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
120 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
121 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
122 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
123 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
124 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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125 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
126 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
127 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
128 validated for i686.
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130* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
131 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
132 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
133 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
134 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
135 field) to indicate such support is required.
136
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137* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
138 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
139 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
140
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141* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
142 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
143
144 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
145 fMxaddfNx functions.
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147 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
148 fMxsubfNx functions.
149
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150 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
151 fMxmulfNx functions.
152
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153 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
154 fMxdivfNx functions.
155
e607a352 156* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 157 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 158 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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159 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
160 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 162* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 163 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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165* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
166 patches.
167
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168* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
169 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
170 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
171 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
172 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
173 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
174 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
175 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
176
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177* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
178 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
179 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
180 the fstatat64 function.
181
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182* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
183 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
184 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
185 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
186 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
187 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
188 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
189 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
190 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
191
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192* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
193 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
194 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
195 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
196 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
197 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
198 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
199 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
200 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
201 results in a load failure now.
202
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203* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
204 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
205 <threads.h>:
206
207 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
208 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
209
210 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
211 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
212
213 - call_once for function call synchronization.
214
215 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
216 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
217
218 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
219
220 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
221
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222Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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224* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
225 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
226 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
227
228* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
229 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
230 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
231 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
232 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
233 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
234
235* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
236 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
237 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
238 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
239 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
240 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
241 (Bug #1190.)
242
243* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
244 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
245 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
246 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
247 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
248 further explanation.
249
250 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
251 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
252 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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254* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
255
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256* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
257 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
258 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
259
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260* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
261 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
262 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
263 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
264
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265* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
266 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
267 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
268 for this function instead.
269
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270* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
271 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
272 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
273
274* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
275 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
276 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
277 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
278
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279* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
280 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
281 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
282 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
283 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
284
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285* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
286 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
287 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
288 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
289 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
290 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
291 such as libgcrypt.
292
293* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
294 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
295 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
296 enabled.
297
298* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
299 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
300 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
301
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302* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
303 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
304 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
305 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
306 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
307 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
308
309 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
310 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
311 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
312 behavior in a future release.
313
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314Changes to build and runtime requirements:
315
f2873d2d 316 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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318Security related changes:
319
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320 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
321 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
322 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
323 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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325 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
326 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
327
328 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
329 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
330 Izbyshev.
331
332 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
333 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
334 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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336The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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338 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
339 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
340 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
341 when __WORDSIZE != 64
342 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
343 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
344 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
345 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
346 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
347 14651
348 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
349 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
350 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
351 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
352 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
353 conversion is given
354 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
355 date
356 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
357 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
358 scope with -O1 and higher
359 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
360 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
361 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
362 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
363 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
364 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
365 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
366 horrible machine code)
367 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
368 last constant.
369 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
370 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
371 symbols
372 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
373 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
374 defined
375 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
376 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
377 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
378 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
379 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
380 fpscr.c'
381 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
382 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
383 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
384 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
385 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
386 the base address
387 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
388 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
389 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
390 open_verify
391 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
392 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
393 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
394 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
395 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
396 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
397 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
398 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
399 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
400 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
401 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
402 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
403 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
404 dlopen
405 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
406 AT_SECURE=1
407 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
408 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
409 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
410 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
411 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
412 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
413 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
414 for Spanish with CLDR
415 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
416 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
417 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
418 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
419 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
420 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
421 es_BO
422 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
423 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
424 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
425 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
426 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
427 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
428 dlopen failures
429 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
430 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
431 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
432 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
433 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
434 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
435 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
436 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
437 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
438 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
439 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
440 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
441 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
442 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
443 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
444 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
445 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
446 makecontext
447 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
448 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
449 required
450 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
451 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
452 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
453 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
454 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
455 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
456 disabled
457 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
458 failure
459 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
460 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
461 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
462 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
463 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
464 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
465 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
466 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
467 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
468 and libc build with -Os)
469 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
470 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
471 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
472 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
473 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
474 that changes /etc/passwd
475 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
476 (CVE-2018-11237)
477 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
478 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
479 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
480 posix/regcomp.c
481 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
482 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
483 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
484 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
485 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
486 AT_SECURE
487 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
488 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
489 parser.c
490 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
491 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
492 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
493 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
494 directed rounding
495 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
496 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
497 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
498 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
499 lookup
500 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
501 interposition
502 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
503 DSO boundaries.
504 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
505 <linux/time.h>
506 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
507 checking
508 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
509 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
510 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
511 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
512 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
513 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
514 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
515 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
516 processors
517 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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519 answers will be rejected)
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522Version 2.27
523
524Major new features:
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527 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 528 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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530 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
531 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
532 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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534 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 536* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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537 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
538 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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541
4cf82d23 542* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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545 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
546 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
547 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
548 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
549 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
550 from a security and performance perspective.
551
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552* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
553 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
554 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
555 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
556
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559 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
560 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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561 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
562
a23aa5b7 563* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 564 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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565 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
566 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
567 _Float128.
568
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570 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
571 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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575* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
576 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
577 pkey_get.
578
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580
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582
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583* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
584 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
585 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
586
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588 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
589 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
590 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
591 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
592 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
593 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
594
595 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
596 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
597 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
598 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
599 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
600 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
601 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
602
603 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
604 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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606 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
607 respectively.
608
609 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
610 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
611 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
612 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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614 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
615 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
616 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
617
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619 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 620 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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623 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
624 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
625
626 - rv64imac lp64
627 - rv64imafdc lp64
628 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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633 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 634 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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635 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
636 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
637 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
638 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
639 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
640 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
641 fix this.
642
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643* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
644 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
645 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
646
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647* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
648 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
649 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
650 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
651 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
652 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
653 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
654 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
655 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
656 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
657 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
658 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
659 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
660 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
661 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
662 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
663 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
664 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
665 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
666 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
667 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
668 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
669 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
670 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
671 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
672 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
673
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675 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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678 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
679 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
680 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
681 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
682 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
683 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
684
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685* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
686 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
687 exp10l for these functions instead.
688
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689* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
690 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
691 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
692
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693* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
694 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
695 ignored.
696
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697* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
698 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
699 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
700 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
701
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702* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
703 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
704
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705* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
706 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
707
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708* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
709 programs.
710
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711* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
712
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713* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
714 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
715 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
716 instead.
717
718 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
719 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
720 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
721 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
722 use, but predates the bits convention.
723
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725
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726* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
727 subdirectory.
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729Security related changes:
730
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731 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
732 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
733 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
734 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
735 script.)
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738 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
739 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
740 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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742 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
743 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
744 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
745 of service.
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748 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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749 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
750
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751 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
752 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
753 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
754 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
755
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756 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
757 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
758 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
759 Qualys.
760
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761 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
762 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
763 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
764 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
765 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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767 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
768 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
769 current directory.
770
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771 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
772 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
773 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
774
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775 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
776 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
777 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
778
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779 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
780 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
781 small, instead of NULL.
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786 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
787 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
788 locale
789 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
790 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
791 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
792 cases
793 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
794 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
795 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
796 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
797 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
798 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
799 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
800 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
801 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
802 "Bangla"
803 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
804 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
805 width Latin characters
806 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
807 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
808 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
809 letters
810 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
811 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
812 (CVE-2009-5064)
813 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
814 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
815 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
816 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
817 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
818 if malloc succeeded
819 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
820 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
821 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
822 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
823 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
824 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
825 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
826 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
827 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
828 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
829 U+309A
830 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
831 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
832 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
833 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
834 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
835 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
836 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
837 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
838 for Nicaragua
839 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
840 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
841 are not found.
842 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
843 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
844 access
845 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
846 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
847 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
848 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
849 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
850 __regcall calling convention
851 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
852 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
853 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
854 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
855 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
856 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
857 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
858 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
859 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
860 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
861 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
862 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
863 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
864 locale
865 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
866 protector=all
867 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
868 wcwidth
869 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
870 consistency check failures
871 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
872 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
873 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
874 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
875 PIE
876 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
877 locales
878 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
879 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
880 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
881 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
882 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
883 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
884 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
885 on memory allocation failure
886 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
887 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
888 the suspect)
889 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
890 default (i386)
891 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
892 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
893 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
894 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
895 instead of EAI_NODATA
896 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
897 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
898 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
899 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
900 implementation
901 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
902 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
903 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
904 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
905 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
906 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
907 allocation in syscall loops)
908 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
909 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
910 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
911 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
912 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
913 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
914 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
915 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
916 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
917 occur with -O3
918 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
919 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
920 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
921 amounts)
922 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
923 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
924 niu_NZ
925 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
926 checks
927 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
928 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
929 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
930 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
931 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
932 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
933 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
934 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
935 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
936 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
937 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
938 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
939 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
940 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
941 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
942 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
943 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
944 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
945 parsing after OOM
946 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
947 object
948 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
949 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
950 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
951 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
952 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
953 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
954 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
955 ppc64le
956 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
957 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
958 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
959 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
960 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
961 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
962 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
963 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
964 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
965 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
966 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
967 math_force_eval
968 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
969 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
970 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
971 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
972 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
973 the svid compat wrapper
974 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
975 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
976 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
977 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
978 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
979 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
980 --verbose.
981 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
982 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
983 to 2.26
984 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
985 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
986 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
987 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
988 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
989 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
990 (CVE-2017-15804)
991 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
992 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
993 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
994 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
995 failure."
996 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
997 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
998 -m32
999 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1000 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1001 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1002 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1003 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1004 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1005 inside the ASCII printable range
1006 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1007 -mlong-double-64
1008 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1009 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1010 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1011 Internet
1012 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1013 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1014 backslash
1015 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1016 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1017 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1018 heaps in an arena
1019 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1020 networking interface
1021 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1022 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1023 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1024 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1025 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1026 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1027 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1028 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1029 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1030 order
1031 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1032 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1033 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1034 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1035 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1036 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1037 same as for Croatian
1038 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1039 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1040 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1041 for initial thread"
1042 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1043 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1044 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1045 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1046 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1047 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1048 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1049 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1050 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1051 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1052 modified in case of success
1053 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1054 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1055 success
1056 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1057 stack-protector=all
1058 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1059 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1060 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1061 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1062 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1063 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1064 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1065 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1066 adding it on top
1067 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1068 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1069 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1070 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1071 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1072 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1073 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1074 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1075 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1076 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1077 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1078 elision and tunables
1079 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1080 "invalid" exception
1081 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1082 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1083 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1084 exception
1085 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1086 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1087 power4
1088 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1089 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1090 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1091 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1092 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1093 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1094 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1095 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1096 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1099Version 2.26
1100
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1101Major new features:
1102
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1103* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1104 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1105 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1106 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1107 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1108 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1109 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1110
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1111* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1112 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1113 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1114 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1115 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1116 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1117 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1119* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1120 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1121 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1122
2b2ccd0c 1123* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1125 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1126 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1127 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1129 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1130 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1131 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1132 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1133 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1135 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1136 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1137 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1139* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1140 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1142* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1143 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1144 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1145 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1147* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1148 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1149 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1150 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1152* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1153 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1154 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1155 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1157* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1158 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1159 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1160
2b2ccd0c 1161* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1162 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1163 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1164 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1165
2b2ccd0c 1166 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1167 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1168 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1169 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1170 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1171
1172 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1173 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1174 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1175 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1176 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1177 interfaces should be used instead.
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1179Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1180
1181* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1182 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1183 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1184 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1185 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1186 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1187 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1188 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1189
1190* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1191 removed.
1192
1193* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1194 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1195 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1196 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1197
1198* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1199 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1200 default.
1201
1202 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1203 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1204 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1205 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1206 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1208 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1209 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1210 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1211 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1212
1213* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1214 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1215 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1216 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1217
1218* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1219 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1221* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1222 exported by accident.
1223
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1224* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1225 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1226 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1227
1228* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1229 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1230 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1231 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1232
1233* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1234
1235* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1236
1237* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1238 free instead.
1239
1240* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1241 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1242
1243* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1244 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1245
1246* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1247 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1248 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1249 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1250 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1251 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1252 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1253 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1254
1255* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1256 synced with the kernel:
1257
1258 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1259 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1260
1261 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1262 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1263 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1264
1265 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1266 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1267
1268Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1269
1270* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1271 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1272 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1273
7e368000 1274* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1277 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1279 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1280 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1281 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1282 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1283 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1286
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1288 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1289
1290* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1291 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1292
1293* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1294 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1295 (CVE-2010-3192).
1296
1297* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1298 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1300The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1303 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1304 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1305 fields
1306 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1307 (CVE-2010-3192)
1308 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1309 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1310 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1311 ld.bfd is available
1312 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1313 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1314 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1315 x86 and other generic code
1316 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1317 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1318 incorrect
1319 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1320 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1321 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1322 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1323 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1324 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1325 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1326 resolver
1327 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1328 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1329 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1330 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1331 chillu characters
1332 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1333 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1334 receiving data
1335 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1336 whitespace
1337 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1338 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1339 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1340 for Peru
1341 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1342 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1343 failures consistently
1344 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1345 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1346 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1347 frame-pointer on i386
1348 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1349 register
1350 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1351 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1352 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1353 generic c code is used
1354 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1355 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1356 around 4000
1357 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1358 (CVE-2017-12133)
1359 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1360 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1361 with -lieee
1362 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1363 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1364 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1365 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1366 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1367 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1368 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1369 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1370 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1371 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1372 remove()
1373 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1374 checked for errors.
1375 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1376 new posix_spawn implementation
1377 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1378 leads to lower CPU frequency
1379 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1380 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1381 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1382 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1383 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1384 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1385 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1386 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1387 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1388 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1389 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1390 not support gethostbyname4_r
1391 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1392 switching
1393 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1394 arenas
1395 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1396 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1397 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1398 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1399 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1400 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1401 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1402 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1403 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1404 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1405 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1406 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1407 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1408 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1409 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1410 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1411 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1412 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1413 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1414 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1415 retry value
1416 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1417 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1418 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1419 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1420 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1421 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1422 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1423 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1424 [21537] libc:
1425 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1426 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1427 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1428 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1429 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1430 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1431 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1432 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1433 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1434 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1435 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1436 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1437 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1438 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1439 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1440 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1441 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1442 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1443 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1444 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1445 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1446 issue on x86-64
1447 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1448 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1449 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1450 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1451 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1452 construction
1453 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1454 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1455 between_2_3
1456 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1457 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1458 conditions
1459 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1460 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1461 Hindi Locale
1462 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1463 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1464 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1465 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1466 locale
1467 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1468 leading to relocation crash
1469 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1470 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1471 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1472 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1473 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1474 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1475 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1476 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1477 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1478 locale
1479 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1480 locale
1481 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1482 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1483 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1484 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1485 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1486 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1487 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1488 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1489 strings
1490 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1491 protector=all
1492 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1493 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1494 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1495 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1496 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1497 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1498 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1499 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1500 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1501 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1502 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1503 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1504 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1505 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1506 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1507 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1508 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1509 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1510 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1511 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1512 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1513 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1514 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1515 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1516 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1517 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1518 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1519 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1520 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1521 with unicode 9.0
1522 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1523 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1524 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1525 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1526 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1527
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1529Version 2.25
1530
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1531* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1532 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1533 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1534 Library.
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1536* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1537 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1538 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1539 the GNU C Library.
1540
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1541* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1542 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1543 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1544 the GNU C Library.
1545
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1546* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1547 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1548 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1549 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1550 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1551 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1552 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1553 will not.
1554
1555 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1556 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1557 many years.
1558
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1559* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1560 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1561 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1562
1563 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1564 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1565 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1566 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1567 problem.
1568
ec94343f 1569* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1570 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1571 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1573* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1574 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1575 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1576 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1577 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1578 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1579 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1580 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1581 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1582 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1583 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1584 WINT_WIDTH.
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1586* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1587
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1588 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1589
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1590 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1591 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1592 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1593
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1594 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1595 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1596
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1597 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1598 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1599
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1600 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1601
29cb9293 1602 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1603
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1604 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1605 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1606
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1607 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1608
eb3c12c7 1609 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1610 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1611
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1612* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1613 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1614
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1615* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1616 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1617 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1618
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1619* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1620 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1621 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1622 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1623 effects of the memory clear).
1624
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1625* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1626 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1627 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1628 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1629
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1630* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1631 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1632 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1633 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1634 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1635 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1636
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1637* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1638 have been added.
1639
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1640* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1641 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1642 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1643 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1644 as large as several megabytes.
1645
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1646* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1647 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1648 been removed.
1649
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1650* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1651 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1652 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1653 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1654 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1655 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1656 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1657
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1658* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1659 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1660 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1661 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1662
099191b1 1663* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1664 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1665 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1666 Internet.
1667
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1668* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1669 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1670 They were already unimplemented.
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1672* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1673 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1674 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1675 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1676
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1677* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1678 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1679 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1680 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1681 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1682
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1683* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1684 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1685 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1686 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1687 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1688
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1689* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1690 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1691 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1692 did not reflect that.
1693
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1694* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1695 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1696 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1697 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1698 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1699 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1700 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1701 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1702
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1703* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1704 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1705 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1706 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1707
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1708* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1709 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1710 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1711 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1712
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1713* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1714 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1715 guarantees.
1716
1717* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1718 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1719 make state changes.
1720
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1721Security related changes:
1722
fc82b0a2 1723* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1724 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1725 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1726 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1727 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1729* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1730 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1731 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1732 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1733 (CVE-2015-5180)
1734
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1736
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1737 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1738 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1739 protector-all
1740 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1741 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1742 before it started waiting
1743 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1744 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1745 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1746 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1747 wrong type
1748 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1749 library linked with pthread
1750 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1751 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1752 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1753 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1754 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1755 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1756 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1757 when it shouldnt
1758 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1759 not
1760 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1761 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1762 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1763 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1764 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1765 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1766 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1767 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1768 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1769 termination
1770 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1771 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1772 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1773 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1774 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1775 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1776 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1777 causes a segmentation fault
1778 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1779 linking
1780 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1781 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1782 uninitialized GOT
1783 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1784 versions
1785 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1786 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1787 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1788 is always true.
1789 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1790 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1791 modes
1792 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1793 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1794 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1795 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1796 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1797 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1798 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1799 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1800 libpthread.a
1801 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1802 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1803 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1804 _res_hconf
1805 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1806 information.
1807 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1808 penalty
1809 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1810 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1811 cause transition penalty
1812 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1813 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1814 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1815 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1816 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1817 mcount.oS)
1818 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1819 Checking
1820 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1821 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1822 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1823 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1824 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1825 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1826 multi-arch
1827 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1828 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1829 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1830 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1831 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1832 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1833 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1834 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1835 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1836 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1837 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1838 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1839 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1840 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1841 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1842 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1843 glibc
1844 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1845 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1846 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1847 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1848 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1849 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1850 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1851 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1852 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1853 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1854 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1855 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1856 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1857 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1858 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1859 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1860 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1861 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1862 RES_USE_INET6
1863 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1864 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1865 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1866 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1867 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1868 wrong condition
1869 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1870 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1871 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1872 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1873 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1874 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1875 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1876 clang
1877 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1878 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1879 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1880 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1881 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1883Version 2.24
1884
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1885* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1886 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1887 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1888 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1889 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1890 architectures.
1891
b6ebba70
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1892* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1893 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1894 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1895
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1896* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1897 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1898
b49ab5f4
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1899* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1900 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1901 instead of “union wait”.
1902
ced8f893
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1903* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1904 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1905 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1906 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1907 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1908 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1909 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1910
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1911* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1912 API.
1913
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1914* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1915 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1916 drop it.
6a54bcda 1917
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1918* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1919 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1920 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1921 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1922 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1923 extensions.
1924
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1925Security related changes:
1926
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1927* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1928 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1929 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1930
4ab2ab03
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1931* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1932 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1933 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1934 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1935
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1936* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1937 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1938 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1939
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1940* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1941 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1942 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1943
fab38231
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1944* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1945 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1946 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1947 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1948
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1949The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1950
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1951 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1952 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1953 of MS-DOS.
1954 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1955 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1956 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1957 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1958 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1959 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1960 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1961 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1962 CLDR data
1963 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1964 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1965 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1966 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1967 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1968 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1969 romanisation
1970 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1971 and +/-
1972 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1973 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1974 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1975 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1976 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1977 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1978 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1979 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1980 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1981 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1982 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1983 all locales
1984 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1985 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1986 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1987 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1988 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1989 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1990 execute
1991 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1992 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1993 -Wsystem-headers
1994 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1995 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1996 Romanian locale data
1997 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1998 symbol
1999 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2000 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2001 language
2002 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2003 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2004 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2005 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2006 machine
2007 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2008 description
2009 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2010 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2011 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2012 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2013 when using RTLD_NEXT
2014 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2015 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2016 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2017 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2018 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2019 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2020 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2021 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2022 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2023 Excavator core
2024 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2025 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2026 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2027 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2028 double range
2029 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2030 part zero incorrect
2031 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2032 equality tests
2033 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2034 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2035 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2036 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2037 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2038 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2039 glibc-2.22
2040 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2041 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2042 'tst-numeric.c'
2043 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2044 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2045 low part
2046 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2047 result
2048 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2049 unaligned stack
2050 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2051 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2052 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2053 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2054 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2055 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2056 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2057 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2058 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2059 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2060 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2061 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2062 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2063 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2064 modes
2065 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2066 server addresses
2067 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2068 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2069 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2070 response to getaddrinfo
2071 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2072 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2073 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2074 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2075 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2076 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2077 sometimes incorrect
2078 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2079 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2080 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2081 record types
2082 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2083 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2084 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2085 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2086 (CVE-2016-3075)
2087 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2088 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2089 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2090 resolving symbols
2091 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2092 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2093 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2094 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2095 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2096 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2097 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2098 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2099 gethosts
2100 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2101 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2102 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2103 (CVE-2016-3706)
2104 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2105 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2106 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2107 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2108 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2109 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2110 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2111 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2112 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2113 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2114 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2115 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2116 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2117 executable
2118 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2119 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2120 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2121 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2122 XPG3
2123 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2124 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2125 (CVE-2016-4429)
2126 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2127 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2128 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2129 AS not supporting AVX512
2130 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2131 sNaN argument
2132 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2133 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2134 argument
2135 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2136 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2137 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2138 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2139 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2140 eax=0x80000001
2141 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2142 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2143 subnormals
2144 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2145 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2146 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2147 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2148 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2149 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2150 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2151 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2152 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2153 input
2154 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2155 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2156 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2157 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2158 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2159 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2160 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2161 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2162 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2163 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2164 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2165 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2166 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2167 double rounding
2168 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2169 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2170 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2171 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2172 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2173 (Only arm/linux)
2174 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2175 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2176 fallbacks
2177 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2178 "invalid" exceptions
2179 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2180 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2181 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2182 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2183 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2184 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2185 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2186 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2187 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2189Version 2.23
2190
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2191* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2192 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2193 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2194 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2195 89, 16061, and 18568.
2196
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2197* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2198 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2199 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2200 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2201 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2202 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2203 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2204
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2205* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2206 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2207 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2208
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2209* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2210 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2211 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2212 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2213 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2214 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2215 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2216
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2217* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2218 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2219 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2220 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2221 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2222 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2223 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2224 Ericsson.)
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2226* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2227 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2228 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2229 independent of the GNU C Library.
2230
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2231* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2232 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2234* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2235 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2236 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2237 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2238 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2239 Linux kernel.
2240
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2241* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2242 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2244* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2245 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2246 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2247 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2248 defining their own copy.
2249
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2250* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2251 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2252 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2254Security related changes:
2255
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2256* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2257 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2258
2259* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2260 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2261 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2262 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2263 (CVE-2015-8777)
2264
2265* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2266 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2267
2268* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2269 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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2271* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2272 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2273 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2275* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2276 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2277 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2278 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2279 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2280 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2281 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2282 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2283 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2284 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2285 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2286 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2287 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2288
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2291 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2292 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2293 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2294 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2295 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2296 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2297 use `mkstemp'
2298 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2299 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2300 overflow/underflow errors
2301 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2302 overflow/underflow
2303 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2304 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2305 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2306 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2307 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2308 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2309 are not contiguous
2310 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2311 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2312 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2313 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2314 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2315 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2316 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2317 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2318 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2319 all exceptions
2320 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2321 arguments
2322 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2323 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2324 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2325 should include
2326 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2327 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2328 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2329 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2330 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2331 GNU/Linux
2332 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2333 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2334 arguments
2335 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2336 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2337 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2338 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2339 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2340 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2341 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2342 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2343 rounding results
2344 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2345 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2346 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2347 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2348 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2349 fails
2350 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2351 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2352 block boundary
2353 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2354 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2355 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2356 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2357 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2358 4.7?
2359 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2360 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2361 (related to lock elision)
2362 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2363 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2364 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2365 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2366 (CVE-2015-8779)
2367 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2368 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2369 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2370 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2371 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2372 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2373 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2374 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2375 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2376 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2377 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2378 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2379 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2380 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2381 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2382 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2383 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2384 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2385 contains a vector instruction exception.
2386 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2387 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2388 locales
2389 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2390 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2391 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2392 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2393 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2394 missing break ?
2395 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2396 32bit processes
2397 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2398 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2399 infinity
2400 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2401 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2402 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2403 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2404 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2405 be forced unloaded
2406 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2407 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2408 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2409 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2410 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2411 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2412 statically too large
2413 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2414 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2415 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2416 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2417 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2418 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2419 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2420 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2421 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2422 FUTEX_SHARED
2423 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2424 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2425 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2426 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2427 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2428 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2429 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2430 opendir()
2431 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2432 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2433 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2434 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2435 signgam
2436 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2437 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2438 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2439 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2440 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2441 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2442 dependencies
2443 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2444 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2445 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2446 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2447 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2448 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2449 (CVE-2015-8776)
2450 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2451 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2452 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2453 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2454 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2455 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2456 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2457 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2458 contention
2459 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2460 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2461 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2462 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2463 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2464 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2465 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2466 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2467 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2468 rounding modes
2469 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2470 ILP32
2471 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2472 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2473 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2474 threshold
2475 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2476 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2477 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2478 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2479 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2480 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2481 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2482 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2483 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2484 pthread_setaffinity_np
2485 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2486 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2487 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2488 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2489 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2490 prelink
2491 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2492 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2493 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2494 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2495 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2496 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2497 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2498 bits/mathcalls.h
2499 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2500 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2501 for C99-based standards
2502 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2503 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2504 math-only
2505 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2506 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2507 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2508 disabled
2509 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2510 "inexact" exceptions
2511 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2512 arguments
2513 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2514 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2515 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2516 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2517 rules
2518 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2519 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2520 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2521 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2522 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2523 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2524 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2525 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2526 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2527 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2528 from 32bit
2529 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2530 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2531 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2532 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2533 subnormals
2534 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2535 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2536 error on 32-bit architectures
2537 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2538 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2539 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2540 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2541 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2542 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2543 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2544 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2545 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2546 -Os
2547 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2548 CPU's.
2549 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2550 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2551 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2552 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2553 architectures
2554 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2556Version 2.22
2557
2558* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2559
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2561 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2562 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2563 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2564 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2565 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2566 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2567 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2568 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2569 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2570 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2571 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2572 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2573 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2574 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2575 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2576 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2577 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2578 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2579 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2580
f7fba805
SL
2581* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2582 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2583
2959eda9
AS
2584* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2585 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2586 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2587 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2588 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2589 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2590
42261ad7
FW
2591* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2592 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2593 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2594 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2595 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2596
afcd9480
AM
2597* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2598 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2599 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2600
4a4839c9
AO
2601* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2602 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2603 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2604 17998.
2605
b13b96ca
AS
2606* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2607 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2608 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2609
2610* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2611 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2612 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2613 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2614 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2615 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2616 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2617 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2618
2619* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2620 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2621 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2622 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2623
2624* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2625 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2626 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2627
2628* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2629 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2630
2631* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2632 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2633 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2634
a03ba363 2635 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2636 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2637 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2638\f
58b930ae
SP
2639Version 2.21
2640
2641* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2642
042e1521 2643 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2644 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2645 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2646 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2647 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2648 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2649 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2650 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2651 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2652 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2653 17892.
2654
46d54873
FW
2655* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2656 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2657 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2658 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2659 intended.
042e1521
CD
2660
2661* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2662 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2663 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2664 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2665 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2666 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2667
522e6ee3
CLT
2668* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2669
d3b00f46
AZ
2670* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2671 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2672 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2673
8d2c0a59
AZ
2674* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2675 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2676 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2677 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2678 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2679 effects being visible outside transactions.
2680
dc400d7b
RE
2681* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2682 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2683
0f9dfe04
L
2684* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2685
a39208bd
CD
2686* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2687 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2688 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2689 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2690 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2691
a5357b7c
JL
2692* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2693 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2694
e54db0ea
AM
2695* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2696 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2697 format.
11e3417a 2698
4863355a
JM
2699* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2700 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2701 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2702
a4ecc9eb
JM
2703* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2704 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2705
0d560bbf 2706* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2707
2708* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2709 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2710 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2711 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2712
2713* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2714 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2715
2716* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2717 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2718 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2719 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2720 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2721 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2722 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2723 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2724 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2725 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2726 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2727 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2728 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2729
2730 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2731 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2732 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2733 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2734 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2735\f
d5b396c1
AM
2736Version 2.20
2737
2738* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2739
6a9350c8
JM
2740 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2741 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2742 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2743 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2744 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2745 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2746 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2747 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2748 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2749 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2750 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2751 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2752 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2753 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2754 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2755
95ee7fb1
SL
2756* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2757 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2758 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2759 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2760 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2761 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2762 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2763 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2764 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2765 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2766
0961f7e1
JL
2767* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2768 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2769 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2770 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2771 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2772
f940b965
RE
2773* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2774
d0f5b3f8
JM
2775* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2776 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2777
d6fe5e58
JM
2778* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2779 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2780 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2781 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2782 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2783 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2784
464263cc
JM
2785* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2786 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2787
2788* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2789 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2790 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2791 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2792 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2793 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2794 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2795
2796* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2797
2798* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2799 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2800 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2801 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2802 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2803 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2804 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2805
2806* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2807 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2808 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2809 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2810 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2811
2812* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2813 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2814 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2815
2816* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2817 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2818 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2819 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2820
2821* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2822 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2823 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2824 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2825 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2826 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2827 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2828 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2829
2830* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2831 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2832 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2833 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2834 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2835 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2836 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2837 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2838 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2839
2840* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2841 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2842 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2843 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2844 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2845 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2846
2847* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2848 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2849 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2850 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2851\f
2852Version 2.19
2853
2854* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2855
fd2f9486
JM
2856 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2857 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2858 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2859 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2860 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2861 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2862 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2863 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2864 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2865 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2866 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2867 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2868 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2869 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2870 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2871 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2872 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2873 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2874
11520a57
CD
2875* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2876 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2877
2fe16229
CD
2878* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2879 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2880 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2881 extension which uses __block.
2882
303e567a
SP
2883* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2884 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2885 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2886 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2887 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2888
141f3a77
SP
2889* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2890 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2891 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2892 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2893 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2894
2895* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2896 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2897 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2898 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2899 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2900
2901* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2902 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2903 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2904
ba0d798c
WN
2905* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2906 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2907 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2908 #15856, #15857).
2909
7cbcdb36
SP
2910* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2911 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2912
82bab04b 2913* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2914 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2915
c5f840fd
MB
2916* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2917
3e181dda
CD
2918* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2919 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2920
3e181dda 2921* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2922
8a05c252
CL
2923* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2924
6055173a
JM
2925* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2926 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2927 for which the C library was built.
2928
b125d3e5
JM
2929* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2930 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2931 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2932 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2933 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2934 in the following circumstances:
2935
2936 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2937
2938 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2939 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2940
d4f66d37
JM
2941* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2942 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2943
3e181dda
CD
2944* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2945 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2946
ffb89e53
AO
2947* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2948
5d29ccce
SP
2949* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2950 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2951
8b7d57cd 2952* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2953
2954* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2955
fd712ef3 2956* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2957
c688b419
JM
2958* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2959 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2960 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2961 disable some of those declarations.
2962
7011c262 2963* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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2964 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2965 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
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2966
2967* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2968 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2969
2970* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2971 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2972 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2973 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2974 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2975 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2976 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2977 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2978 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2979 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2980 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2981 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2982 require recompilation.
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2983\f
2984Version 2.18
2985
2986* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2987
17db6e8d 2988 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2989 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2990 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2991 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2992 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2993 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2994 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2995 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2996 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2997 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2998 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2999 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3000 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3001 15755, 15759.
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3002
3003* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3004 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3005 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3006 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3007 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3008 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3009
5b535ac4
AS
3010* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3011 #15078).
3012
1cef1b19
AS
3013* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3014 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3015
55e4107b
SP
3016* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3017 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3018 destructor calls to glibc.
3019
e5c74c63
SP
3020* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3021 output.
3022
3023* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3024 non-x86 architectures.
3025
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3026* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3027
3028* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3029
3030* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3031 Richard Henderson.
3032
3033* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3034
3035* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3036 Richard Henderson.
3037
3038* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3039 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3040
8cfdb7e0
SP
3041* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3042
57267616
TS
3043* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3044 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3045
c204ab28
SP
3046* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3047 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3048
0748546f
PE
3049* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3050 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3051 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3052
61dd6208
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3053* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3054 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3055 attributes of a process.
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3056
3057* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3058 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3059 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3060 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3061 mutexes.
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3062
3063* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3064 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3065
3066* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3067\f
3068Version 2.17
3069
3070* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3071
80ceeaee 3072 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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3073 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3074 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3075 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3076 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3077 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3078 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3079 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3080 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3081 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3082 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3083 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3084 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3085 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3086 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3087
95b4f1b6
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3088* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3089
14bc93a9
JL
3090* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3091 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3092
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3093* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3094 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3095
7e2bd01f
MS
3096* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3097
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3098* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3099 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3100 zEnterprise z196.
3101 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3102
84b3fd84
FW
3103* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3104 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3105 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3106
815e6fa3
GB
3107* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3108 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3109
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MK
3110* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3111 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3112
7aab07e4 3113* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3114 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3115
15d0da8c
WS
3116* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3117 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3118
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3119* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3120 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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3121 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3122 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3123
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3124* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3125 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3126
85429b1a 3127* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3128 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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3129 default.
3130
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3131* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3132 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3133 information in --help and --version output.
3134
050af9c4
SP
3135* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3136 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3137 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3138
89a3ad0b
AO
3139* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3140 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3141 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3142 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3143 when the mode is enabled.
3144
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RM
3145* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3146 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3147 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3148 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3149 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3150 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3151 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3152
d9286582
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3153* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3154 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3155\f
3156Version 2.16
3157
3158* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3159
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3160 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3161 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3162 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3163 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3164 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3165 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3166 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3167 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3168 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3169 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3170 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3171 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3172 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3173 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3174 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3175 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3176 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3177 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3178 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3179 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3180 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3181 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3182 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3183
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3184* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3185 configuring glibc with:
3186 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3187 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3188 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3189
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3190* ISO C11 support:
3191
3192 + define static_assert
3193
3194 + do not declare gets
3195
3196 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3197
3198 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3199 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3200 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3201 implementation.
8d44e150 3202
74033a25 3203 + timespec_get added
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3204
3205 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3206
ac097f5c
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3207 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3208
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3209 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3210
9dc4e1fb 3211* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3212
3213* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3214
3215* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3217
3218* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3219 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3220
3221* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3222 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3223 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3224 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3225 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3226
21708942 3227* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3228 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3229 before 2.6.
83678f76 3230
edb00e4d
RH
3231* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3232 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3233 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3234
83678f76 3235* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
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3236
3237* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3238 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3239 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3240 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3241 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3242
3243* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3244
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3245* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3246 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
3247
3248* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3249
3250* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3251 without a previously built glibc.
3252
3253* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3254 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3255
3256* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3257 now supported for ARM processors.
3258
3259* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3260 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3261 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3262
3263* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3264
3265* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3266 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3267 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3268 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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AJ
3269
3270* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3271 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3272 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3273 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3274
3275* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3276 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3277 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3278 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3279 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3280
3281* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3282 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3283 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3284 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3285\f
e80fab37 3286Version 2.15
11988f8f 3287
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3288* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3289
aebae053
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3290 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3291 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3292 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3293 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3294 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3295 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3296 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3297
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3298* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3300
3301* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3302 and support for initgroups lookups.
3303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3304
3305* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3306 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3307
3308* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3309 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3310
fc2ee42a
LD
3311* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3312 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3313 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3314
d42964a0 3315* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3316 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3317
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3318* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3319 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3320 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3321
c55fbd1e
UD
3322* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3323 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3324
3325* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3327
3328* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3329 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3330
3331* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3333
3334* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3335 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3336
3337* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3338 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3339
3340* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3341
3342* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3344
f0b264f1
AZ
3345* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3346 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3347
6b64057b 3348* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3349\f
dded88cd 3350Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3351
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3352* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3353
553149f6 3354 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3355 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3356 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3357 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3358 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3359 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3360 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3361 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3362 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3363 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3364
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3365* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3366 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3367 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3368 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3369
3370 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3371 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3372 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3374
c6489db3 3375* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3376 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3377
72d1dddb 3378* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3379 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3380
3381* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3382
3383* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3386* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3387 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3388 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3389 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3392
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3394
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3395 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3396 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3397 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3398 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3399 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3400
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c08fb0d7 3402
ac2b484c 3403* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3405* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3406 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3409Version 2.12
3410
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3412
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3413 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3414 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3415 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3416 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3417 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3418 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3419 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3420 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3422* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3424* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3425
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3426* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3427
3428* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3429 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3431
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3433 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3434 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3435 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3437
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3441
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3443
3444 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3445 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3446 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3447 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3448 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3449 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3450
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3451* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3452 mkostemps64
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3453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3454
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3456 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3457
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3458* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3459 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3460
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3461* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3462
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9d36a6c4 3464 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3465 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3467
9d36a6c4 3468 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3470
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3471* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3472 strstr, strcasestr.
3473 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3474
3475* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3476 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
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3478* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3479 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3480
3481* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3483
3484* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3485 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3486 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3487 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3488 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3489 necessity is every process again.
3490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3491
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3492* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3493 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3494
3495* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3496 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3497
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3498* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3499 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3501
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3505
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3506* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3507
3508 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3509 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3510 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3511 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3512 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3513
bb066545 3514* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3516
425ce2ed 3517* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3519
1fdd89a7 3520* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3521 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3523* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3524 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3526* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3529* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3531
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3532* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3533 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3534
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3535* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3536 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3537
3538* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3539 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3541
735be400 3542* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3543
84aa52d7 3544* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3546
3547* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3548 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3549 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3550
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3551* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3553
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3554* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3555 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3556 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3557 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3558 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3561Version 2.9
3562
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3563* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3564
3565 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3566 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3567 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3568 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3569 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3570
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3572 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3573
3574* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3575 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3576
3577* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3579
3580* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3581 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3583
3584* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3585 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 3587* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3588
3589* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3590 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3592* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3593 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3594 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3596
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3597* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3598 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3600* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3601 Sinhala)
48b22986 3602 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3604* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3607
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3608* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3609
3610 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3611 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3612 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3613 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3614 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3615 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3616 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3617
e038616f 3618* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 3620* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3622* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3623 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3624
3625* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3626
3627* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3628 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3629
3630* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3632
3633* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3634 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3635 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3636
3637* Faster memset for x86-64.
3638 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3639
3640* Faster memcpy on x86.
3641 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3642
3643* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3644 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3646* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3647 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3650
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3651* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3652
3653 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3654 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3655 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3656 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3657 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3658
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3659* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3660 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3661
3662* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3663
3664* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3665 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3666 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3667
3668* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3669 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3670
28919a77 3671* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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3672 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3673
3674* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3675
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3676* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3678
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3679* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3680 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3681
3682* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3683 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3684
3685* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3686
3687* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3688 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3690* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3691 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3692 yo_NG.
3693
3694+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3695 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3700
3701 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3702 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3703 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3704 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3705 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3706 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3707 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3708 4702, 4858
3709
bce20b9a 3710* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3713
b21fa963 3714* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3717
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3719
3720 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3721 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3722 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3723 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3724 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3725 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3726 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3727 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3728 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3729
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3731 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3734* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3736
871b9158 3737* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3739* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3741* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3742 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3743 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3744 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3745 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3746
07bfff20 3747* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3749 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3751
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3752* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3753 Ulrich Drepper.
3754
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3755* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3756
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3757* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3758 Ulrich Drepper.
3759
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3760* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3761
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3762* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3763 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3766
3767* More overflow detection functions.
3768
3769* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3770 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3772 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3773 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3774 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3775 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3776 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3777 by Masahide Washizawa.
3778
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3779* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3780 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3782* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3783 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3784 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3785 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3787* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3788 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3789
3790* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3791
3792* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3793 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3794 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3795
3796* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3797 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3798
3799* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3800 for compatibility with some other systems.
3801
3802* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3805
3806* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3807
3808 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3809 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3810 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3811 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3812 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3813 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3814
3815 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3816
3817* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3818
3819* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3821Version 2.3.5
3822
3823* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3824
3825 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3826 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3827 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3828 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3829
3830 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3832Version 2.3.4
3833
3834* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3836
3837* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3838 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3840
3841* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3842 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3843
0325dd20 3844* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3845 efficiently.
3846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3847
3848* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3849 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3850 handling data.
3851
3852* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3853 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3854 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3855
3856* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3857 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3858
3859* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3860 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3861 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3862 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3863
3864* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3865 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3866 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3867 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3868
3869* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3870 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3871 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3872 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3873 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3875Version 2.3.3
3876
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3877* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3878 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3879
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3880* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3881 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3882
69be6aaf 3883* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3884 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3885
3886* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3888
3889* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3890 by Roland McGrath.
3891
c5af724c 3892* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3893 and Ulrich Drepper.
3894
3895* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3896 RFC 3484.
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3898Version 2.3.2
3899
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3900* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3901 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3902 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3903 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3904 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3905 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3906 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3907 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3908 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3909
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3910* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3911 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3912 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3913
3914* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3915
3916* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3917 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3919* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3920 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3921
52a16e58 3922* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3923
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3924* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3925 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3926
3927* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3928 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3929 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3930 of weak definition in ld.so.
3931
3932* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3933 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3934
3935* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3936 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 3939
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3940* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3941 charsets.
3942
3943* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3944 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3945
bb0ec5bd 3946* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3947 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3948
3949* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3950 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3951
bb0ec5bd 3952* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3953 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3954 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3955
3956* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3957 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3958
bb0ec5bd 3959* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3960 implementation of regex.
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3961
3962* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3963 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3964
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3965* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3966 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3967
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3968* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3969 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3970 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3971
3972* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3973 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3974
3975* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3976 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3977 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3978
3979* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3980 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3981
3982* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3983 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3984 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3985
3986* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3988Version 2.2.6
3989
3990* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3991 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3992
3993* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3994 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3996Version 2.2.5
3997
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3998* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3999 128-bit long double format.
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4001* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4002 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4003
ad2e4f18 4004* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4005
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4006* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4007
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4008* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4009 as well.
4010
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4011* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4012 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4013
4014* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4016Version 2.2.4
4017
2995f70e 4018* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4019 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4020
4021* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4022 support Unicode 3.1.
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4023
4024* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4025 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4026
69d5f925 4027* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4028
69d5f925 4029* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4030 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4031 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4032
4033* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4034 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4035
4036* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4037 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4038
4039* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4041Version 2.2.3
4042
1746f2b0 4043* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4044 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4045 in float, double, and long double format.
4046
f128331c 4047* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4048 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4049 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4050
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4051* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4052 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4053 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4054 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4055
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4056* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4057 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4058 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4059
4060* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4061 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4062
4063* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4064 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4065
4066* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4067 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4068 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4069
4070* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4071 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4072
4073* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4074 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4075
4076* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4078Version 2.2.2
4079
464d97ec 4080* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4081 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4082 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4083 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4084 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4085 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4086 other headers.
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4087
4088* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4089 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4090
4091* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4092 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4093 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4094 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4095
4096* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4097 locales. While
4098
4099 locale -a
4100
4101 only lists the names of the supported locales
4102
4103 locale -a --verbose
4104
4105 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4106 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4108Version 2.2.1
4109
4110* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4111 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4112 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4113 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4114 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4115
4116 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4117
4118 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4119
4120 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4121
4122* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4123 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4124 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4125
4126* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4127 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4128
4129* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4130 changed from the default "C" locale.
4131
4132* The usual bug fixes.
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4134Version 2.2
4135
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4136* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4137 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4138 is in progress.
4139
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4140* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4141
793bd4d9 4142* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4143
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4144 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4145 obviously requires a database library being available.
4146
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4147* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4148
abbffdf9 4149* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4150
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4151* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4152 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4153
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4154* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4155
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4156* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4157 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4158 and Mark Kettenis.
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4159
4160 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4161 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4162 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4163
a00c3ca9 4164 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4165 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4166
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4167* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4168 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4169 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4170
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4171* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4172 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4173 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4175
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4176 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4177 structures for the wide character tables.
4178
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4179* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4180
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4181* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4182
4183* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4184
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4185* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4186 and Yutaka Niibe.
4187
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4188* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4189
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4190* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4191
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4192* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4193
4194* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4195
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4196* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4197
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4198* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4199 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4200 implemented for Linux.
4201
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4202* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4203 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4204 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4205 versions.
4206
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4207* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4208 Masahide Washizawa.
4209
8f3f1e09 4210* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4212Version 2.1.3
4213
4214* bug fixes
4215
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4217Version 2.1.2
4218
4219* bug fixes
4220
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4222Version 2.1.1
4223
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4224* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4225
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4226* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4227
407d26b7 4228* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4229
4230* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4231
407d26b7 4232* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4233
407d26b7 4234* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4235
4236* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4237
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4238* lots of charmaps corrections
4239
4240* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4241
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4243Version 2.1
4244
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4245* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4246 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4247 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4248 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4249 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4250 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4251
c84142e8 4252* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4253 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4254
1fb05e3d 4255* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4256 symbol level.
4257
4258* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4259 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4260
cbdee279 4261* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4262
4263* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4264 numbers.
377a515b 4265
cbdee279 4266* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4267
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4268* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4269 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4270
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4271* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4272 library.
4273
e61abf83 4274* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4275 functions from ISO C 9X.
4276
4277* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4278 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4279
a5a0310d 4280* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4281
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4282* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4283
4284* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4285
440d13e2 4286* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4287
4288* Optimized string functions have been added.
4289
4290* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4291
4292* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4293
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4294* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4295 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4296
4297 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4298 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4299
0dee6738 4300 user system wall
48244d09 4301
0dee6738 4302 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4303
0dee6738 4304 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4305
0dee6738 4306 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4308 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4309
4310 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4311
4312 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4314 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4315 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4316 horribly slow.
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4318 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4319 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4321* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4323* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4324
4325* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4326 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4327
4328* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4330* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4331 Bambrough.
4332
4333* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4334 latest draft standards.
4335
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4337
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4339~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4340addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4341alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4342argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4343argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4344argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4345argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4346argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4347argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4348argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4349argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4350argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4351argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4353authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4354authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4355backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4356backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4357backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4358cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4359cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4360cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4361cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4362cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4363cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4364capget NEW: kernel
4365capset NEW: kernel
4366carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4367cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4368cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4369casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4370casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4371casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4372casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4373casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4374casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4375catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4376catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4377catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4378catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4379catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4380catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4382ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4383ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4384ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4385ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4386ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4387ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4388cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4389cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4390cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4391cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4392cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4393cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4394clearerr_locked REMOVED
4395clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4396clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4397clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4398clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4399clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4400clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4402conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4403conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4404conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4405cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4406cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4407cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4408cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4409cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4410cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4411creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4412crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4413creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4414creat64 NEW: LFS
4415csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4416csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4417csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4418csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4419csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4420csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4421csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4422csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4423csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4424ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4425ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4426ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4427ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4428ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4429ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4430des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4431ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4432endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4433exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4434exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4435exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4436exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4437exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4438exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4439fattach NEW: STREAMS
4440fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4441fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4442fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4443fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4444feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4445fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4446fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4447fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4448feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4449feof_locked REMOVED
4450feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4451ferror_locked REMOVED
4452fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4453fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4454fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4455fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4456feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4457fflush_locked REMOVED
4458ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4459ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4460fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4461fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4462fileno_locked REMOVED
4463fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4464fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4465fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4466fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4467fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4468fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4469fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4470fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4471fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4472fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4473fopen64 NEW: LFS
4474fputc_locked REMOVED
4475fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4476fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4477freopen64 NEW: LFS
4478fseeko NEW: Unix98
4479fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4480fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4481fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4482fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4483ftello NEW: Unix98
4484ftello64 NEW: LFS
4485ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4486ftw64 NEW: LFS
4487fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4488gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4489gamma_r REMOVED
4490gammaf_r REMOVED
4491gammal_r REMOVED
4492getchar_locked REMOVED
4493getdate NEW: Unix98
4494getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4495getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4496getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4497getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4498getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4499getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4500getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4501getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4502getutxent NEW: Unix98
4503getutxid NEW: Unix98
4504getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4505glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4506globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4507gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4508gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4509grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4510host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4511iconv NEW: iconv
4512iconv_close NEW: iconv
4513iconv_open NEW: iconv
4514if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4515if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4516if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4517if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4518in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4519in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4520inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4521isastream NEW: STREAMS
4522iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4523key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4524key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4525key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4526key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4527key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4528key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4529key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4530key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4531key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4532llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4533llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4534llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4535llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4536llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4537llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4538log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4539log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4540log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4541lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4542lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4543lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4544lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4545lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4546lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4547lseek64 NEW: LFS
4548makecontext NEW: Unix98
4549mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4550mmap64 NEW: LFS
4551moncontrol REMOVED
4552modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4553nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4554nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4555nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4556nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4557nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4558nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4559netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4560netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4561nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4562nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4563nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4564nftw NEW: Unix98
4565nftw64 NEW: LFS
4566open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4567passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4568pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4569pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4570pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4571pread NEW: Unix98
4572pread64 NEW: LFS
4573printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4574printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4575profil_counter REMOVED
4576pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4577pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4578ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4579ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4580putc_locked REMOVED
4581putchar_locked REMOVED
4582putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4583putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4584putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4585pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4586pwrite NEW: Unix98
4587pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4588readdir64 NEW: LFS
4589readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4590remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4591remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4592remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4593round NEW: ISO C 9x
4594roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4595roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4596rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4597scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4598scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4599scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4600scandir64 NEW: LFS
4601sendfile NEW: kernel
4602setcontext NEW: Unix98
4603setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4604setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4605sighold NEW: Unix98
4606sigignore NEW: Unix98
4607sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4608sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4609sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4610sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4611sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4612sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4613sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4614sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4615statfs64 NEW: LFS
4616statvfs NEW: Unix98
4617statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4618strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4619strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4620strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4621strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4622svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4623svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4624svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4625swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4626tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4627tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4628tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4629tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4630tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4631tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4632trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4633truncate64 NEW: LFS
4634truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4635truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4636umount2 NEW: kernel
4637unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4638updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4639user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4640utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4641versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4642versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4643waitid NEW: Unix98
4644wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4645wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4646wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4647wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4648wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4649wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4650wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4651wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4652wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4653wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4654write_profiling REMOVED
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4655xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4656xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4657xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4658xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4659xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4660xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4661xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4662xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4663xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4664xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4665xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4666xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4667xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4668xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4669xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4672Version 2.0.6
4673
4674* more bug fixes
4675
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4676\f
4677Version 2.0.5
4678
4679* more bug fixes
4680
4681* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4682
4683* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4684
4685* rewrite of cbrt function
4686
4687* update of timezone data
4688\f
4689Version 2.0.4
4690
4691* more bug fixes
4692\f
4693Version 2.0.3
4694
4695* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4696\f
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4697Version 2.0.2
4698
4699* more bug fixes
4700
4701* add atoll function
4702
4703* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4704
4705* fix math functions
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4706\f
4707Version 2.0.1
4708
4709* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4710
4711* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4712
4713* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4714 the ELF dynamic loader.
4715
4716* support for parallel builds is improved
4717\f
40a4b79f 4718Version 2.0
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4720* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4721 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4722 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4723
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4724* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4725 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4726 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4727 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4728 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4729 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4730 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4731 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4732 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4733 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4734 files in the ELF format.
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4735
4736* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4737 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4738
4739* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4740 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4741 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4742 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4743 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4744 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4745 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4746 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4747 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4748 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4749 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4751* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4752 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4753 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4754 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4755 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4756
f7eac6eb 4757* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4758 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4759 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4760 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4761 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4762
4763* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4765* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4766 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4767 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4768 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4769 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4770 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4771 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4772 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4773 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4774
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4775* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4776 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4777 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4778
4779* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4780 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4781 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4782
4783* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4784 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4785 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4786 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4787
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4788* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4789 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4790 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4791
4792* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4793 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4794 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4795
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4796* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4797 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4798
f7eac6eb 4799* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4800 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4801 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4802 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4803
4804* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4805 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4806 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4807
71733723 4808* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4809 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4810 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4811 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4812 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4813 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4814 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4815 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4816
4817* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4818 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4819 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4820 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4821 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4822 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4823 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4824
4825* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4826 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4827 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4828 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4829 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4830 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4831
4832* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4833 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4834
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4835* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4836 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4837 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4839* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4840
4841* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4842 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4843 their use is discouraged.
4844
4845* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4846 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4848* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4849 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4850
4851* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4852 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4853
4854* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4855 see <dirent.h>.
4856
4857* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4858 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4859 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4860 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4861 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4862
4863* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4864 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4865 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4866 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4867
4868* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4869 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4870
4871* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4872 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4873 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4874 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4875 number generator.
4876
4877* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4878 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4879
4880* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4881 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4882
71733723 4883* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4884 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4886 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4888* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4889
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4890* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4891 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4892 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4893
4894* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4895 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4897* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4898 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4899 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4900 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4901
4902* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4903 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4904 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4905 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4906 programs already written to use it.)
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4907
4908* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4909 constants.
4910
4911* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4912 with 4.4 BSD.
4913
4914* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4915 a given effective group ID.
4916
4917* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4918 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4919 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4920 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4921
4922* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4923 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4924 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4925 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4926 doing the same thing.
4927
4928* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4929 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4930
4931* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4932 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4933
4934* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4935
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4936* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4937 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4938 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4939 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4940 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4941
4942* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4943 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4945* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4946 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4947 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4948 function.
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4949
4950* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4951
4952* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4953 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4954 strings.
4955
4956* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4957 and writing the utmp file.
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4959* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4960 Thorsten Kukuk.
4961
4962* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4963 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4964 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4965
4966* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4967 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4968
4969* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4970 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4971 specification.
4972
4973* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4974 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4975 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4976 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4977
4978* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4979 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4980 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4981
4982* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4983 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4984 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4985 expression matcher.
4986
4987* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4988 functionality.
4989
4990* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4991 by Ulrich Drepper.
4992
4993* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4994
4995* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4996 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4997 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4999Version 1.09
5000
5001* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5002
5003* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5004 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5005
5006* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5007 want to put themselves in the background.
5008
5009* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5010 run without an operating system.
5011
5012* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5013 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5014
5015* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5016 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5017
5018* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5019
5020* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5021 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5022 have YP (aka NIS).
5023
5024* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5025 conventions.
5026
5027* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5028 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5029\f
5030Version 1.08
5031
5032* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5033 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5034 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5035
5036* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5037 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5038
5039* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5040 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5041
5042* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5043
5044* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5045
5046* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5047 compatibility.
5048
5049* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5050 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5051 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5052
5053* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5054
5055* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5056 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5057 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5058
5059* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5060 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5061 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5062 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5063 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5064 on a block).
5065
5066* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5067 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5068 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5069 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5070 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5071 cross-compiler.
5072
5073* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5074 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5075\f
5076Version 1.07
5077
5078* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5079 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5080
5081* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5082 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5083 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5084
5085* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5086 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5087 address of the last character written.
5088
5089* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5090 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5091
5092* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5093 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5094
5095* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5096 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5097 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5098 you dereference this pointer.
5099
5100* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5101 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5102
5103* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5104 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5105 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5106 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5107
5108* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5109 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5110 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5111 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5112\f
5113Version 1.06
5114
5115* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5116 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5117 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5118 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5119 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5120
5121* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5122
5123* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5124
5125* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5126 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5127
5128* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5129 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5130
5131* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5132 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5133
5134* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5135 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5136 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5137 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5138 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5139
5140* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5141 to the error code in `errno'.
5142
5143* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5144 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5145 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5146 malloc'd string.
5147
5148* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5149 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5150 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5151
5152* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5153 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5155Version 1.05
5156
5157* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5158 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5159 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5160
5161* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5162 characters.
5163
5164* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5165 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5166
5167* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5168\f
5169Version 1.04
5170
5171* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5172 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5173 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5174 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5175
5176* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5177 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5178 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5179
5180* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5181 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5182
5183* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5184 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5185 made itself into a shared library.
5186
5187* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5188 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5189
5190* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5191 with limited length.
5192
5193* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5194
5195* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5196
5197* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5198
5199* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5200 function for traversing a directory tree.
5201
5202* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5203 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5204 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5205 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5206
5207* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5208 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5209
5210* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5211
5212* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5213 things to your strings.
5214
5215* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5216
5217* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5218 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5219 supporting those systems.
5220
5221* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5222 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5223 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5224 configuration files.
5225
5226* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5227 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5228
5229* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5231 in <strings.h>.)
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5232
5233* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5234 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5235 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5236 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5237 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5238 required storage is not available.
5239
5240* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5241 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5242
5243* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5244 latest files released from Berkeley.
5245\f
5246----------------------------------------------------------------------
5247Copyright information:
5248
09533208 5249Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5250
5251 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5252 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5253 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5254 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5255
5256 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5257 of this document, or of portions of it,
5258 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5259 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5260\f
5261Local variables:
5262version-control: never
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