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306eeae5 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2001-1-30 |
28f540f4 | 2 | |
234669e2 | 3 | Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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4 | See the end for copying conditions. |
5 | ||
33a934a3 | 6 | Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to |
af6f3906 | 7 | <bugs@gnu.org>. Questions and suggestions should be send to |
2eb45444 | 8 | <bug-glibc@gnu.org>. |
2e92188d | 9 | \f |
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10 | Version 2.2.2 |
11 | ||
12 | * lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir | |
13 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The | |
14 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
15 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
16 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
17 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
18 | other headers. | |
19 | \f | |
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20 | Version 2.2.1 |
21 | ||
22 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
23 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
24 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
25 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
26 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
27 | ||
28 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
29 | ||
30 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
31 | ||
32 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
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33 | |
34 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
35 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
36 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
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37 | |
38 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
39 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
40 | ||
41 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
42 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
43 | ||
44 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
d2defdc4 | 45 | \f |
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46 | Version 2.2 |
47 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
48 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
49 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
50 | is in progress. | |
51 | ||
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52 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
53 | ||
793bd4d9 | 54 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 55 | |
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56 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
57 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
58 | ||
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59 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
60 | ||
abbffdf9 | 61 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 62 | |
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63 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
64 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
65 | ||
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66 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
67 | ||
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68 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
69 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
70 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
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71 | |
72 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
73 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
74 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 75 | |
a00c3ca9 | 76 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
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77 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
78 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
79 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
80 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
81 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
82 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
83 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
84 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
85 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
86 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
87 | ||
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88 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
89 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
90 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
91 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
92 | ||
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93 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
94 | ||
95 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
96 | ||
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97 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
98 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
99 | ||
594cee6c UD |
100 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
101 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
102 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
103 | ||
594cee6c UD |
104 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
105 | ||
106 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
107 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
108 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
109 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
110 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
111 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
112 | implemented for Linux. | |
113 | ||
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114 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
115 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
116 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
117 | versions. | |
118 | ||
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119 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
120 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
121 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
122 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
123 | ||
124 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
125 | Compiling the GNU C Library for Linux/ia64 | |
126 | ****************************************** | |
127 | ||
128 | Please refer to the file INSTALL in the same directory as you found | |
129 | this file for general information about configuring and compiling | |
130 | glibc. | |
131 | ||
132 | For general inquiries about glibc under Linux/ia64 please use the | |
133 | following mailing list linux-ia64@linuxia64.org or one of the relevant | |
134 | glibc mailing lists. | |
135 | ||
136 | Recommended Tools for Compilation | |
137 | ================================= | |
138 | ||
139 | In order for glibc-2.2 to build correctly on the ia64 you need at | |
140 | least the following versions of the GNU tools (the : | |
141 | ||
142 | * The Cygnus toolchain snapshot for the ia64 as of August 4 | |
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143 | including the provided set of patches. It is however recommend |
144 | you use the October 24 toolchain snapshot or a more recent version. | |
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145 | |
146 | OR alternatively you can try the following (the Cygnus toolchain is | |
147 | the recommended solution): | |
148 | ||
149 | * GCC and binutils, GAS and GNU LD out of CVS from | |
aea6353a | 150 | sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree |
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151 | may require special patches to work properly on the ia64. |
152 | ||
153 | Configuring and compiling GNU Libc for Linux/ia64 | |
154 | ================================================= | |
155 | ||
156 | The library requires Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test4-000728 or | |
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157 | later to funtion properly. Besides that it support for debug libraries |
158 | is currently untested. Hence the following options | |
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159 | are required for configuring the library: |
160 | ||
aea6353a | 161 | --disable-debug --enable-kernel=2.4.0 |
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162 | |
163 | It is also important that you make sure the library picks up the | |
164 | appropriate kernel header files, if you do not have recent enough | |
165 | kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include, you should use the | |
166 | --with-headers=<path> option to specify the location. | |
167 | ||
168 | As an example I personally use the following options to configure | |
169 | the library: | |
170 | ||
171 | --disable-debug | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
172 | --disable-cvs |
173 | --enable-kernel=2.4.0 | |
174 | --host=ia64-linux | |
175 | --enable-add-ons=yes | |
176 | --prefix=/usr | |
177 | --with-headers=/home/jes/linux/include | |
178 | ||
179 | ||
180 | Good luck | |
181 | ||
182 | Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>, | |
aea6353a | 183 | November 14th, 2000 |
8f3f1e09 | 184 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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185 | \f |
186 | Version 2.1.3 | |
187 | ||
188 | * bug fixes | |
189 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
190 | \f |
191 | Version 2.1.2 | |
192 | ||
193 | * bug fixes | |
194 | ||
28f540f4 | 195 | \f |
e518937a UD |
196 | Version 2.1.1 |
197 | ||
27995311 UD |
198 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
199 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
200 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
201 | ||
407d26b7 | 202 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
203 | |
204 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
205 | ||
407d26b7 | 206 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 207 | |
407d26b7 | 208 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
209 | |
210 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 211 | |
554b8800 UD |
212 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
213 | ||
214 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
215 | ||
e518937a | 216 | \f |
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217 | Version 2.1 |
218 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
219 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
220 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
221 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
222 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
223 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
224 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
225 | ||
c84142e8 | 226 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 227 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 228 | |
1fb05e3d | 229 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
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230 | symbol level. |
231 | ||
232 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
233 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 234 | |
cbdee279 | 235 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
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236 | |
237 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 238 | numbers. |
377a515b | 239 | |
cbdee279 | 240 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 241 | |
48869012 UD |
242 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
243 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 244 | |
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245 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
246 | library. | |
247 | ||
e61abf83 | 248 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
249 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
250 | ||
251 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
252 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 253 | |
a5a0310d | 254 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 255 | |
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256 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
257 | ||
258 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 259 | |
440d13e2 | 260 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
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261 | |
262 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
263 | ||
264 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
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265 | |
266 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 267 | |
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268 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
269 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
270 | ||
271 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
272 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
273 | ||
0dee6738 | 274 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 275 | |
0dee6738 | 276 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 277 | |
0dee6738 | 278 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 279 | |
0dee6738 | 280 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 281 | |
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282 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
283 | ||
284 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
285 | ||
286 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 287 | |
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288 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
289 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 290 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 291 | |
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292 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
293 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
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294 | |
295 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
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296 | |
297 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
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298 | |
299 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
300 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
301 | ||
302 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 303 | |
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304 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
305 | Bambrough. | |
306 | ||
307 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
308 | latest draft standards. | |
309 | ||
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310 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
311 | ||
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312 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
313 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 314 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 315 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
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316 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
317 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
318 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
319 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
320 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
321 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
322 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
323 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
324 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
325 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
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326 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
327 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
328 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
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329 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
330 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
331 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
332 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
333 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
334 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
335 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
336 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
337 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
338 | capget NEW: kernel | |
339 | capset NEW: kernel | |
340 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
341 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
342 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
343 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
344 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
345 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
346 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
347 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
348 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
349 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
350 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
351 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
352 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
353 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
354 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 355 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
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356 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
357 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
358 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
359 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
360 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
361 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
362 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
363 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
364 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
365 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
366 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
367 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
368 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
369 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
370 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
371 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
372 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
373 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
374 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
375 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
376 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
377 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
378 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
379 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
380 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
381 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
382 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
383 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
384 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
385 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
386 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
387 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
388 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
389 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
390 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
391 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
392 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
393 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
394 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
395 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
396 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
397 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
398 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
399 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
400 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
401 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
402 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
403 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
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404 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
405 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 406 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
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407 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
408 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
409 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
410 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
411 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
412 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
413 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
414 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
415 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
416 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
417 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
418 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
419 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
420 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
421 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
422 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
423 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
424 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
425 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
426 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
427 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
428 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
429 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
430 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
431 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
432 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
433 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
434 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
435 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
436 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
437 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
438 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
439 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
440 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
441 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
442 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
443 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
444 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
445 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 446 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
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447 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
448 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
449 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
450 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
451 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
452 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
453 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
454 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
455 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
456 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
457 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
458 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
459 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
460 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
461 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
462 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
463 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
464 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
465 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
466 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
467 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
468 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
469 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
470 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
471 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 472 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
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473 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
474 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
475 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
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476 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
477 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
478 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
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479 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
480 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
481 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
482 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
483 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 484 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
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485 | iconv NEW: iconv |
486 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
487 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
488 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
489 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
490 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
491 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
492 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
493 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
494 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
495 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
496 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
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497 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
498 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
499 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
500 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
501 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
502 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
503 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
504 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
505 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
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506 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
507 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
508 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
509 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
510 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
511 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
512 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
513 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
514 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
515 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
516 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
517 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
518 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
519 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
520 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
521 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
522 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
523 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
524 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
525 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
526 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
527 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
528 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
529 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
530 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
531 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
532 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
533 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
534 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
535 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
536 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
537 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
538 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
539 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
540 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 541 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
542 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
543 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
544 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
545 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
546 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
547 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
548 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
549 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
550 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
551 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
552 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
553 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
554 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
555 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
556 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
557 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
558 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 559 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
560 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
561 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
562 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
563 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
564 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
565 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
566 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
567 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
568 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
569 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
570 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
571 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
572 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
573 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
574 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
575 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
576 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
577 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 578 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
579 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
580 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
581 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
582 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
583 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
584 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
585 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
586 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
587 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
588 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
589 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
590 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
591 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
592 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
593 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
594 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
595 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 596 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
597 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
598 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
599 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
600 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
601 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
602 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
603 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
604 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
605 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
606 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
607 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
608 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
609 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
610 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
611 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 612 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 613 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 614 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 615 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 616 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
617 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
618 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
619 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
620 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
621 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
622 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
623 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
624 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
625 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
626 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
627 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
628 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
629 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
630 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
631 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
632 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
633 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
634 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
635 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
636 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
637 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
638 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
639 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
640 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
641 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 642 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 643 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 644 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
645 | \f |
646 | Version 2.0.6 | |
647 | ||
648 | * more bug fixes | |
649 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
650 | \f |
651 | Version 2.0.5 | |
652 | ||
653 | * more bug fixes | |
654 | ||
655 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
656 | ||
657 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
658 | ||
659 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
660 | ||
661 | * update of timezone data | |
662 | \f | |
663 | Version 2.0.4 | |
664 | ||
665 | * more bug fixes | |
666 | \f | |
667 | Version 2.0.3 | |
668 | ||
669 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 670 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
671 | Version 2.0.2 |
672 | ||
673 | * more bug fixes | |
674 | ||
675 | * add atoll function | |
676 | ||
677 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
678 | |
679 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
680 | \f |
681 | Version 2.0.1 | |
682 | ||
683 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
684 | ||
685 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
686 | ||
687 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
688 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
689 | ||
690 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
691 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 692 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 693 | |
d3669add RM |
694 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
695 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
696 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
697 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
698 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
699 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
700 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
701 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
702 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
703 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
704 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
705 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
706 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
707 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
708 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
709 | |
710 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
711 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
712 | ||
713 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
714 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
715 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
716 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
717 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
718 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
719 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
720 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
721 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
722 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
723 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 724 | |
71733723 RM |
725 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
726 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
727 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
728 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
729 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 730 | |
f7eac6eb | 731 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
732 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
733 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
734 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
735 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
736 | ||
737 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 738 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
739 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
740 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
741 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
742 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
743 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
744 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
745 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
746 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
747 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 748 | |
49e522bf RM |
749 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
750 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
751 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
752 | ||
753 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
754 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
755 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
756 | ||
757 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
758 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
759 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
760 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
761 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
762 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
763 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
764 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
765 | ||
766 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
767 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
768 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
769 | ||
49e522bf RM |
770 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
771 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
772 | ||
f7eac6eb | 773 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 774 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 775 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
776 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
777 | ||
778 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
779 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
780 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 781 | |
71733723 | 782 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
783 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
784 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
785 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
786 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
787 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 788 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 789 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
790 | |
791 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
792 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
793 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
794 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
795 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
796 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
797 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
798 | |
799 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
800 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
801 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
802 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
803 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
804 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
805 | ||
806 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
807 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
808 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
809 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
810 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
811 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 812 | |
28f540f4 RM |
813 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
814 | ||
815 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
816 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
817 | their use is discouraged. | |
818 | ||
819 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
820 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 821 | |
22a1292a RM |
822 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
823 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
824 | |
825 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
826 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
827 | ||
828 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
829 | see <dirent.h>. | |
830 | ||
831 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
832 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
833 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
834 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
835 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
836 | |
837 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
838 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
839 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
840 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
841 | |
842 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
843 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
844 | ||
845 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
846 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
847 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
848 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
849 | number generator. | |
850 | ||
851 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
852 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
853 | ||
854 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
855 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
856 | ||
71733723 | 857 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 858 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
859 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
860 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 861 | |
d3669add RM |
862 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
863 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
864 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
865 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
866 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
867 | ||
868 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
869 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 870 | |
c709e372 | 871 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
872 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
873 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
874 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
875 | ||
876 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
877 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
878 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
879 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
880 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
881 | |
882 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
883 | constants. | |
884 | ||
885 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
886 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
887 | ||
888 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
889 | a given effective group ID. | |
890 | ||
891 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
892 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
893 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
894 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
895 | ||
896 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 897 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
898 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
899 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
900 | doing the same thing. | |
901 | ||
902 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
903 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
904 | ||
905 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 906 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
907 | |
908 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
909 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
910 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
911 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
912 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 913 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 914 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
915 | |
916 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
917 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
918 | |
919 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
920 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
921 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
922 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
923 | |
924 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
925 | ||
926 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
927 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
928 | strings. | |
929 | ||
930 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
931 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
932 | |
933 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
934 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
935 | ||
936 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
937 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
938 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
939 | ||
940 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
941 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
942 | ||
943 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
944 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
945 | specification. | |
946 | ||
947 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
948 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
949 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
950 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
951 | ||
952 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
953 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
954 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
955 | ||
956 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
957 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
958 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
959 | expression matcher. | |
960 | ||
961 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
962 | functionality. | |
963 | ||
964 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
965 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
966 | ||
967 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
968 | ||
969 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
970 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
971 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
28f540f4 RM |
972 | \f |
973 | Version 1.09 | |
974 | ||
975 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
976 | ||
977 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
978 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
979 | ||
980 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
981 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
982 | ||
983 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
984 | run without an operating system. | |
985 | ||
986 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
987 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
988 | ||
989 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
990 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
991 | ||
992 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
993 | ||
994 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
995 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
996 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
997 | ||
998 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
999 | conventions. | |
1000 | ||
1001 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
1002 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
1003 | \f | |
1004 | Version 1.08 | |
1005 | ||
1006 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
1007 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
1008 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
1009 | ||
1010 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
1011 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
1012 | ||
1013 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
1014 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
1015 | ||
1016 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
1017 | ||
1018 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
1019 | ||
1020 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
1021 | compatibility. | |
1022 | ||
1023 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
1024 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
1025 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
1026 | ||
1027 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
1028 | ||
1029 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
1030 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
1031 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
1032 | ||
1033 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
1034 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
1035 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
1036 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
1037 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
1038 | on a block). | |
1039 | ||
1040 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
1041 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
1042 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
1043 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
1044 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
1045 | cross-compiler. | |
1046 | ||
1047 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
1048 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
1049 | \f | |
1050 | Version 1.07 | |
1051 | ||
1052 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
1053 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
1056 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
1057 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
1058 | ||
1059 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
1060 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
1061 | address of the last character written. | |
1062 | ||
1063 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
1064 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
1065 | ||
1066 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
1067 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
1068 | ||
1069 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
1070 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
1071 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
1072 | you dereference this pointer. | |
1073 | ||
1074 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
1075 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
1076 | ||
1077 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
1078 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
1079 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
1080 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
1081 | ||
1082 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
1083 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
1084 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
1085 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
1086 | \f | |
1087 | Version 1.06 | |
1088 | ||
1089 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
1090 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
1091 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
1092 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 1093 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
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1094 | |
1095 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
1096 | ||
1097 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
1098 | ||
1099 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
1100 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
1101 | ||
1102 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
1103 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
1104 | ||
1105 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
1106 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
1107 | ||
1108 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
1109 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
1110 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
1111 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
1112 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
1113 | ||
1114 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
1115 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
1116 | ||
1117 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
1118 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
1119 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
1120 | malloc'd string. | |
1121 | ||
1122 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
1123 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
1124 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
1125 | ||
1126 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
1127 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
1128 | \f | |
1129 | Version 1.05 | |
1130 | ||
1131 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
1132 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
1133 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
1134 | ||
1135 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
1136 | characters. | |
1137 | ||
1138 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
1139 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
1140 | ||
1141 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
1142 | \f | |
1143 | Version 1.04 | |
1144 | ||
1145 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
1146 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
1147 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
1148 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
1149 | ||
1150 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
1151 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
1152 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
1153 | ||
1154 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
1155 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
1156 | ||
1157 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
1158 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
1159 | made itself into a shared library. | |
1160 | ||
1161 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
1162 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
1163 | ||
1164 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
1165 | with limited length. | |
1166 | ||
1167 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
1168 | ||
1169 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
1170 | ||
1171 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
1172 | ||
1173 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
1174 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
1175 | ||
1176 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
1177 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
1178 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
1179 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
1180 | ||
1181 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
1182 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
1183 | ||
1184 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
1185 | ||
1186 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
1187 | things to your strings. | |
1188 | ||
1189 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
1190 | ||
1191 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
1192 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
1193 | supporting those systems. | |
1194 | ||
1195 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
1196 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
1197 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
1198 | configuration files. | |
1199 | ||
1200 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
1201 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
1202 | ||
1203 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
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1204 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
1205 | in <strings.h>.) | |
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1206 | |
1207 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
1208 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
1209 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
1210 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
1211 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
1212 | required storage is not available. | |
1213 | ||
1214 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
1215 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
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1216 | |
1217 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
1218 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
1219 | \f | |
1220 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
1221 | Copyright information: | |
1222 | ||
56ddf355 | 1223 | Copyright (C) 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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1224 | |
1225 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
1226 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
1227 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
1228 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
1229 | ||
1230 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
1231 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
1232 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
1233 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
1234 | \f | |
1235 | Local variables: | |
1236 | version-control: never | |
1237 | end: |