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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 2.27
9
10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
13 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 14 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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15 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
16 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
17 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
18 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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19 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
20 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 22* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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23 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
24 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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26* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
27
4cf82d23 28* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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30* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
31 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
32 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
33 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
34 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
35 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
36 from a security and performance perspective.
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38* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
39 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
40 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
41 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
42
81325b12 43* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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44 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
45 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
46 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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47 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
48
a23aa5b7 49* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 50 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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51 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
52 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
53 _Float128.
54
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55* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
56 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
57 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 58
4bab0224 59* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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61* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
62 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
63 pkey_get.
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65* The copy_file_range function was added.
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67* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
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69* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
70 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
71 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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73* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
74 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
75 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
76 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
77 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
78 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
79 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
80
81 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
82 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
83 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
84 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
85 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
86 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
87 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
88
89 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
90 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
91 same syntax as "mon" and "ab_mon".
92
93 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
94 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
95 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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97 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
98 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 99 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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101* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
102 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
103 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
104
105 - rv64imac lp64
106 - rv64imafdc lp64
107 - rv64imafdc lp64d
108
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109Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
110
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111* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
112 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 113 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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114 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
115 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
116 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
117 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
118 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
119 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
120 fix this.
121
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122* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
123 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
124 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
125
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126* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
127 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
128 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
129 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
130 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
131 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
132 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
133 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
134 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
135 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
136 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
137 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
138 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
139 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
140 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
141 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
142 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
143 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
144 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
145 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
146 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
147 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
148 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
149 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
150 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
151 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
152
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153* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
154 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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156* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
157 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
158 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
159 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
160 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
161 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
162 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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164* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
165 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
166 exp10l for these functions instead.
167
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168* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
169 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
170 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
171
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172* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
173 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
174 ignored.
175
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176* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
177 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
178 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
179 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
180
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181* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
182 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
183
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184* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
185 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
186
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187* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
188 programs.
189
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190* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
191
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192* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
193 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
194 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
195 instead.
196
197 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
198 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
199 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
200 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
201 use, but predates the bits convention.
202
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203Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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205* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
206 subdirectory.
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208Security related changes:
209
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210 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
211 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
212 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
213 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
214 script.)
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216 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
217 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
218 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
219 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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221 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
222 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
223 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
224 of service.
225
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226 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
227 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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228 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
229
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230 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
231 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
232 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
233 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
234
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235 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
236 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
237 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
238 Qualys.
239
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240 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
241 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
242 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
243 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
244 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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246 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
247 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
248 current directory.
249
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250 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
251 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
252 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
253
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254The following bugs are resolved with this release:
255
256 [The release manager will add the list generated by
257 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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260Version 2.26
261
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262Major new features:
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264* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
265 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
266 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
267 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
268 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
269 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
270 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
271
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272* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
273 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 274 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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275 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
276 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
277 are rendered with pango, see for example:
278 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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280* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
281 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
282 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 283
2b2ccd0c 284* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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286 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
287 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
288 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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290 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
291 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
292 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
293 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
294 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 295
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296 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
297 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
298 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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300* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
301 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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303* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
304 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
305 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
306 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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308* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
309 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
310 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
311 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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313* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
314 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
315 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
316 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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318* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
319 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
320 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 321
2b2ccd0c 322* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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323 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
324 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
325 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 327 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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328 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
329 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
330 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
331 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
332
333 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
334 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
335 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
336 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
337 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
338 interfaces should be used instead.
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340Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
341
342* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
343 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
344 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
345 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
346 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
347 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
348 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
349 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
350
351* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
352 removed.
353
354* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 355 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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356 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
357 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
358
359* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
360 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
361 default.
362
363 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
364 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
365 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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366 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
367 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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369 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
370 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
371 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
372 name service modules, to be built and installed.
373
374* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
375 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
376 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
377 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
378
379* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
380 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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382* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
383 exported by accident.
384
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385* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
386 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
387 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
388
389* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
390 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
391 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
392 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
393
394* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
395
396* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
397
398* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
399 free instead.
400
401* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
402 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
403
404* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
405 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
406
407* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
408 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
409 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
410 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
411 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
412 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
413 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
414 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
415
416* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
417 synced with the kernel:
418
419 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
420 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
421
422 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
423 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
424 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
425
426 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
427 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
428
429Changes to build and runtime requirements:
430
431* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
432 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
433 x86-32 and x86-64.)
434
7e368000 435* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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437* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
438 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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440 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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441 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
442 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
443 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 444 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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447
e14a2772 448* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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449 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
450
451* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
452 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
453
454* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
455 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
456 (CVE-2010-3192).
457
458* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
459 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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461The following bugs are resolved with this release:
462
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463 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
464 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
465 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
466 fields
467 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
468 (CVE-2010-3192)
469 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
470 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
471 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
472 ld.bfd is available
473 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
474 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
475 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
476 x86 and other generic code
477 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
478 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
479 incorrect
480 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
481 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
482 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
483 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
484 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
485 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
486 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
487 resolver
488 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
489 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
490 order of 0D36 and 0D37
491 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
492 chillu characters
493 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
494 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
495 receiving data
496 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
497 whitespace
498 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
499 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
500 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
501 for Peru
502 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
503 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
504 failures consistently
505 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
506 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
507 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
508 frame-pointer on i386
509 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
510 register
511 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
512 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
513 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
514 generic c code is used
515 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
516 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
517 around 4000
518 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
519 (CVE-2017-12133)
520 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
521 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
522 with -lieee
523 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
524 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
525 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
526 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
527 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
528 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
529 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
530 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
531 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
532 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
533 remove()
534 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
535 checked for errors.
536 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
537 new posix_spawn implementation
538 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
539 leads to lower CPU frequency
540 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
541 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
542 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
543 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
544 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
545 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
546 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
547 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
548 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
549 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
550 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
551 not support gethostbyname4_r
552 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
553 switching
554 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
555 arenas
556 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
557 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
558 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
559 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
560 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
561 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
562 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
563 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
564 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
565 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
566 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
567 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
568 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
569 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
570 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
571 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
572 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
573 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
574 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
575 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
576 retry value
577 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
578 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
579 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
580 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
581 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
582 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
583 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
584 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
585 [21537] libc:
586 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
587 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
588 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
589 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
590 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
591 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
592 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
593 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
594 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
595 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
596 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
597 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
598 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
599 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
600 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
601 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
602 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
603 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
604 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
605 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
606 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
607 issue on x86-64
608 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
609 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
610 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
611 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
612 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
613 construction
614 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
615 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
616 between_2_3
617 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
618 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
619 conditions
620 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
621 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
622 Hindi Locale
623 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
624 posix/sched_cpucount.c
625 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
626 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
627 locale
628 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
629 leading to relocation crash
630 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
631 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
632 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
633 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
634 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
635 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
636 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
637 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
638 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
639 locale
640 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
641 locale
642 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
643 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
644 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
645 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
646 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
647 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
648 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
649 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
650 strings
651 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
652 protector=all
653 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
654 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
655 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
656 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
657 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
658 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
659 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
660 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
661 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
662 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
663 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
664 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
665 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
666 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
667 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
668 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
669 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
670 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
671 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
672 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
673 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
674 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
675 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
676 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
677 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
678 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
679 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
680 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
681 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
682 with unicode 9.0
683 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
684 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
685 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
686 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
687 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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691
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692* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
693 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
694 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
695 Library.
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697* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
698 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 699 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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701
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702* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
703 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
704 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
705 the GNU C Library.
706
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707* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
708 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
709 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
710 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
711 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
712 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
713 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
714 will not.
715
716 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
717 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
718 many years.
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721 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
722 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
723
724 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
725 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
726 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
727 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
728 problem.
729
ec94343f 730* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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732 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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735 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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737 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
738 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
739 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
740 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
741 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
742 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
743 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
744 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
745 WINT_WIDTH.
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748
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749 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
750
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751 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
752 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
753 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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755 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
756 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
757
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758 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
759 fminmagf, fminmagl.
760
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761 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
762
29cb9293 763 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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765 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
766 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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768 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
769
eb3c12c7 770 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 771 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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773* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
774 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
775
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776* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
777 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
778 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
779
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781 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
782 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
783 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
784 effects of the memory clear).
785
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786* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
787 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
788 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
789 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
790
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792 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
793 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
794 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
795 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
796 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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799 have been added.
800
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802 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
803 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
804 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
805 as large as several megabytes.
806
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808 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
809 been removed.
810
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812 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
813 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
814 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
815 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
816 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
817 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
818
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820 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
821 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
822 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
823
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826 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
827 Internet.
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830 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
831 They were already unimplemented.
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833* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
834 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
835 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
836 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
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839 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
840 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
841 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
842 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
843
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845 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
846 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
847 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
848 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
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851 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
852 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
853 did not reflect that.
854
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856 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
857 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
858 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
859 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
860 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
861 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
862 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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865 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
866 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
867 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
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870 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
871 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
872 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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875 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
876 guarantees.
877
878* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
879 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
880 make state changes.
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883
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886 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
887 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 888 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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891 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
892 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
893 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
894 (CVE-2015-5180)
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898 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
899 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
900 protector-all
901 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
902 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
903 before it started waiting
904 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
905 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
906 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
907 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
908 wrong type
909 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
910 library linked with pthread
911 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
912 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
913 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
914 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
915 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
916 after being __libc_memalign()'d
917 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
918 when it shouldnt
919 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
920 not
921 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
922 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
923 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
924 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
925 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
926 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
927 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
928 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
929 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
930 termination
931 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
932 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
933 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
934 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
935 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
936 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
937 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
938 causes a segmentation fault
939 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
940 linking
941 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
942 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
943 uninitialized GOT
944 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
945 versions
946 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
947 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
948 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
949 is always true.
950 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
951 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
952 modes
953 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
954 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
955 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
956 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
957 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
958 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
959 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
960 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
961 libpthread.a
962 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
963 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
964 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
965 _res_hconf
966 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
967 information.
968 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
969 penalty
970 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
971 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
972 cause transition penalty
973 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
974 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
975 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
976 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
977 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
978 mcount.oS)
979 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
980 Checking
981 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
982 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
983 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
984 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
985 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
986 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
987 multi-arch
988 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
989 (RES_USEBSTRING)
990 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
991 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
992 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
993 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
994 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
995 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
996 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
997 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
998 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
999 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1000 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1001 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1002 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1003 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1004 glibc
1005 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1006 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1007 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1008 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1009 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1010 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1011 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1012 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1013 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1014 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1015 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1016 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1017 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1018 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1019 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1020 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1021 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1022 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1023 RES_USE_INET6
1024 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1025 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1026 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1027 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1028 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1029 wrong condition
1030 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1031 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1032 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1033 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1034 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1035 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1036 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1037 clang
1038 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1039 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1040 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1041 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1042 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1043\f
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1044Version 2.24
1045
5b4ecd3f
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1046* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1047 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1048 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1049 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1050 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1051 architectures.
1052
b6ebba70
MF
1053* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1054 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1055 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1056
7584a3f9
FW
1057* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1058 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1059
b49ab5f4
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1060* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1061 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1062 instead of “union wait”.
1063
ced8f893
SG
1064* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1065 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1066 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1067 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1068 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1069 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1070 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1071
2ba3cfa1
FW
1072* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1073 API.
1074
b7a9b7b0
MF
1075* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1076 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1077 drop it.
6a54bcda 1078
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1079* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1080 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1081 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1082 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1083 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1084 extensions.
1085
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1086Security related changes:
1087
f5b3338d
FW
1088* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1089 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1090 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1091
4ab2ab03
FW
1092* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1093 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1094 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1095 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1096
5171f307
FW
1097* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1098 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1099 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1100
bc779a1a
FW
1101* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1102 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1103 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1104
fab38231
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1105* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1106 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1107 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1108 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1109
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1111
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1112 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1113 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1114 of MS-DOS.
1115 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1116 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1117 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1118 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1119 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1120 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1121 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1122 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1123 CLDR data
1124 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1125 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1126 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1127 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1128 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1129 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1130 romanisation
1131 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1132 and +/-
1133 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1134 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1135 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1136 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1137 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1138 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1139 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1140 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1141 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1142 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1143 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1144 all locales
1145 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1146 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1147 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1148 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1149 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1150 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1151 execute
1152 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1153 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1154 -Wsystem-headers
1155 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1156 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1157 Romanian locale data
1158 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1159 symbol
1160 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1161 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1162 language
1163 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1164 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1165 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1166 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1167 machine
1168 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1169 description
1170 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1171 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1172 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1173 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1174 when using RTLD_NEXT
1175 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1176 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1177 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1178 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1179 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1180 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1181 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1182 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1183 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1184 Excavator core
1185 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1186 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1187 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1188 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1189 double range
1190 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1191 part zero incorrect
1192 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1193 equality tests
1194 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1195 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1196 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1197 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1198 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1199 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1200 glibc-2.22
1201 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1202 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1203 'tst-numeric.c'
1204 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1205 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1206 low part
1207 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1208 result
1209 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1210 unaligned stack
1211 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1212 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1213 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1214 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1215 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1216 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1217 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1218 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1219 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1220 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1221 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1222 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1223 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1224 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1225 modes
1226 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1227 server addresses
1228 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1229 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1230 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1231 response to getaddrinfo
1232 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1233 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1234 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1235 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1236 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1237 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1238 sometimes incorrect
1239 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1240 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1241 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1242 record types
1243 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1244 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1245 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1246 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1247 (CVE-2016-3075)
1248 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1249 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1250 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1251 resolving symbols
1252 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1253 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1254 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1255 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1256 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1257 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1258 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1259 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1260 gethosts
1261 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1262 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1263 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1264 (CVE-2016-3706)
1265 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1266 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1267 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1268 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1269 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1270 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1271 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1272 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1273 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1274 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1275 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1276 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1277 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1278 executable
1279 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1280 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1281 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1282 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1283 XPG3
1284 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1285 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1286 (CVE-2016-4429)
1287 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1288 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1289 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1290 AS not supporting AVX512
1291 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1292 sNaN argument
1293 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1294 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1295 argument
1296 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1297 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1298 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1299 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1300 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1301 eax=0x80000001
1302 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1303 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1304 subnormals
1305 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1306 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1307 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1308 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1309 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1310 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1311 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1312 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1313 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1314 input
1315 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1316 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1317 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1318 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1319 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1320 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1321 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1322 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1323 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1324 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1325 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1326 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1327 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1328 double rounding
1329 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1330 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1331 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1332 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1333 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1334 (Only arm/linux)
1335 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1336 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1337 fallbacks
1338 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1339 "invalid" exceptions
1340 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1341 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1342 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1343 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1344 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1345 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1346 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1347 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1348 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1352* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1353 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1354 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1355 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1356 89, 16061, and 18568.
1357
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1358* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1359 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1360 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1361 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1362 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1363 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1364 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1365
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1366* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1367 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1368 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1369
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1370* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1371 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1372 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1373 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1374 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1375 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1376 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1377
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1378* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1379 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1380 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1381 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1382 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1383 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1384 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1385 Ericsson.)
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1387* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1388 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1389 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1390 independent of the GNU C Library.
1391
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1392* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1393 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1395* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1396 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1397 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1398 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1399 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1400 Linux kernel.
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1403 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1405* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1406 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1407 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1408 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1409 defining their own copy.
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1412 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1413 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1415Security related changes:
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1417* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1418 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1419
1420* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1421 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1422 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1423 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1424 (CVE-2015-8777)
1425
1426* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1427 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1428
1429* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1430 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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1432* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1433 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1434 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1436* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1437 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1438 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1439 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1440 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1441 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1442 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1443 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1444 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1445 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1446 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1447 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1448 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1449
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1452 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1453 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1454 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1455 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1456 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1457 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1458 use `mkstemp'
1459 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1460 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1461 overflow/underflow errors
1462 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1463 overflow/underflow
1464 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1465 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1466 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1467 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1468 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1469 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1470 are not contiguous
1471 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1472 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1473 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1474 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1475 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1476 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1477 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1478 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1479 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1480 all exceptions
1481 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1482 arguments
1483 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1484 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1485 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1486 should include
1487 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1488 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1489 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1490 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1491 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1492 GNU/Linux
1493 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1494 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1495 arguments
1496 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1497 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1498 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1499 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1500 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1501 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1502 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1503 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1504 rounding results
1505 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1506 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1507 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1508 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1509 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1510 fails
1511 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1512 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1513 block boundary
1514 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1515 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1516 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1517 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1518 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1519 4.7?
1520 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1521 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1522 (related to lock elision)
1523 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1524 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1525 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1526 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1527 (CVE-2015-8779)
1528 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1529 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1530 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1531 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1532 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1533 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1534 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1535 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1536 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1537 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1538 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1539 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1540 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1541 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1542 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1543 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1544 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1545 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1546 contains a vector instruction exception.
1547 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1548 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1549 locales
1550 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1551 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1552 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1553 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1554 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1555 missing break ?
1556 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1557 32bit processes
1558 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1559 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1560 infinity
1561 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1562 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1563 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1564 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1565 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1566 be forced unloaded
1567 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1568 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1569 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1570 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1571 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1572 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1573 statically too large
1574 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1575 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1576 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1577 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1578 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1579 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1580 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1581 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1582 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1583 FUTEX_SHARED
1584 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1585 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1586 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1587 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1588 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1589 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1590 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1591 opendir()
1592 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1593 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1594 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1595 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1596 signgam
1597 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1598 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1599 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1600 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1601 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1602 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1603 dependencies
1604 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1605 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1606 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1607 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1608 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1609 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1610 (CVE-2015-8776)
1611 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1612 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1613 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1614 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1615 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1616 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1617 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1618 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1619 contention
1620 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1621 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1622 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1623 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1624 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1625 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1626 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1627 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1628 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1629 rounding modes
1630 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1631 ILP32
1632 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1633 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1634 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1635 threshold
1636 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1637 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1638 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1639 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1640 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1641 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1642 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1643 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1644 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1645 pthread_setaffinity_np
1646 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1647 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1648 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1649 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1650 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1651 prelink
1652 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1653 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1654 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1655 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1656 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1657 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1658 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1659 bits/mathcalls.h
1660 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1661 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1662 for C99-based standards
1663 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1664 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1665 math-only
1666 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1667 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1668 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1669 disabled
1670 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1671 "inexact" exceptions
1672 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1673 arguments
1674 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1675 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1676 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1677 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1678 rules
1679 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1680 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1681 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1682 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1683 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1684 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1685 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1686 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1687 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1688 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1689 from 32bit
1690 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1691 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1692 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1693 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1694 subnormals
1695 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1696 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1697 error on 32-bit architectures
1698 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1699 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1700 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1701 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1702 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1703 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1704 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1705 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1706 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1707 -Os
1708 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1709 CPU's.
1710 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1711 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1712 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1713 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1714 architectures
1715 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1718
1719* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1720
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1722 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1723 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1724 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1725 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1726 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1727 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1728 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1729 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1730 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1731 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1732 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1733 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1734 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1735 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1736 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1737 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1738 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1739 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1740 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 1741
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1742* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1743 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1744
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1745* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1746 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1747 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1748 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1749 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1750 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 1751
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FW
1752* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1753 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1754 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1755 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1756 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1757
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1758* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1759 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1760 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1761
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AO
1762* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1763 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1764 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1765 17998.
1766
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1767* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1768 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1769 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
1770
1771* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1772 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1773 pow, powf.
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AS
1774 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1775 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1776 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1777 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1778 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1779
1780* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1781 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1782 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1783 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1784
1785* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1786 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1787 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1788
1789* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1790 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1791
1792* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1793 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1794 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1795
a03ba363 1796 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1797 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1798 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1800Version 2.21
1801
1802* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1803
042e1521 1804 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1805 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1806 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1807 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1808 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1809 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1810 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1811 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1812 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1813 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1814 17892.
1815
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1816* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1817 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1818 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1819 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1820 intended.
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1821
1822* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1823 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1824 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1825 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1826 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1827 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1829* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1830
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1831* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1832 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1833 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 1834
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1835* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1836 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1837 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1838 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1839 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1840 effects being visible outside transactions.
1841
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1842* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1843 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 1844
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1845* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1846
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1847* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1848 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1849 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1850 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1851 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 1852
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1853* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1854 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1855
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1856* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1857 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1858 format.
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1860* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1861 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1862 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1863
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1864* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1865 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1866
0d560bbf 1867* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1868
1869* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1870 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1871 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1872 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1873
1874* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1875 with newer versions of bison.
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1876
1877* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1878 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1879 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1880 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1881 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1882 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1883 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1884 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1885 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1886 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1887 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1888 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1889 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1890
1891 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1892 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1893 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1894 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1895 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1897Version 2.20
1898
1899* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1900
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1901 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1902 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1903 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1904 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1905 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1906 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1907 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1908 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1909 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1910 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1911 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1912 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1913 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1914 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1915 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1916
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1917* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1918 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1919 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1920 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1921 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1922 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1923 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1924 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1925 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1926 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1927
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1928* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1929 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1930 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1931 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1932 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1933
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1934* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1935
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1936* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1937 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1938
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1939* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1940 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1941 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1942 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1943 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1944 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1945
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1946* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1947 from ports.
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1948
1949* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1950 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1951 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1952 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1953 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1954 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1955 test macros defined.
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1956
1957* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1958
1959* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1960 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1961 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1962 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1963 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1964 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1965 is not built.
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1966
1967* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1968 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1969 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1970 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1971 invocation.
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1972
1973* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1974 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1975 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1976
1977* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1978 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1979 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1980 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1981
1982* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1983 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1984 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1985 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1986 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1987 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1988 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1989 additional checks.
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1990
1991* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1992 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1993 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1994 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1995 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1996 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1997 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1998 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1999 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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2000
2001* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2002 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2003 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2004 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2005 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2006 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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FW
2007
2008* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2009 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2010 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2011 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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2013Version 2.19
2014
2015* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2016
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2017 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2018 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2019 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2020 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2021 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2022 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2023 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2024 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2025 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2026 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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2027 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2028 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2029 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2030 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2031 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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2032 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2033 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2034 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
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2036* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2037 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2038
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2039* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2040 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2041 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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2042 extension which uses __block.
2043
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SP
2044* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2045 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2046 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2047 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2048 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2049
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SP
2050* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2051 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2052 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2053 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2054 if malloc fails.
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2055
2056* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2057 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2058 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2059 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2060 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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2061
2062* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2063 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2064 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2065
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2066* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2067 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2068 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2069 #15856, #15857).
2070
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2071* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2072 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2073
82bab04b 2074* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2075 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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2077* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2078
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2079* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2080 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2081
3e181dda 2082* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
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2084* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2085
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2086* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2087 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2088 for which the C library was built.
2089
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2090* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2091 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2092 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2093 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2094 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2095 in the following circumstances:
2096
2097 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2098
2099 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2100 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2101
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2102* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2103 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2104
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2105* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2106 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2107
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2108* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2109
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2110* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2111 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2112
8b7d57cd 2113* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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2114
2115* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2116
fd712ef3 2117* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2118
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2119* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2120 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2121 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2122 disable some of those declarations.
2123
7011c262 2124* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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2125 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2126 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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2127
2128* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2129 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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2130
2131* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2132 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2133 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2134 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2135 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2136 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2137 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2138 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2139 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2140 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2141 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2142 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2143 require recompilation.
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2145Version 2.18
2146
2147* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2148
17db6e8d 2149 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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2150 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2151 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2152 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2153 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2154 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2155 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2156 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2157 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2158 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2159 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2160 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2161 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2162 15755, 15759.
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2164* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2165 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2166 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2167 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2168 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2169 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2170
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2171* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2172 #15078).
2173
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2174* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2175 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2176
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2177* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2178 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2179 destructor calls to glibc.
2180
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2181* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2182 output.
2183
2184* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2185 non-x86 architectures.
2186
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2187* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2188
2189* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2190
2191* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2192 Richard Henderson.
2193
2194* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2195
2196* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2197 Richard Henderson.
2198
2199* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2200 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2201
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2202* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2203
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2204* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2205 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2206
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2207* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2208 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2209
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2210* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2211 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2212 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2213
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2214* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2215 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2216 attributes of a process.
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2217
2218* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2219 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2220 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2221 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2222 mutexes.
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2224* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2225 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2226
2227* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2229Version 2.17
2230
2231* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2232
80ceeaee 2233 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2234 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2235 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2236 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2237 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2238 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2239 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2240 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2241 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2242 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2243 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2244 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2245 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2246 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2247 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2248
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2249* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2250
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2251* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2252 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2253
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2254* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2255 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2256
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2257* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2258
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2259* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2260 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2261 zEnterprise z196.
2262 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2263
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2264* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2265 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2266 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2267
815e6fa3
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2268* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2269 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2270
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2271* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2272 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2273
7aab07e4 2274* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2275 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2276
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2277* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2278 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2279
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2280* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2281 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2282 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2283 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2284
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2285* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2286 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2287
85429b1a 2288* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2289 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2290 default.
2291
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2292* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2293 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2294 information in --help and --version output.
2295
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2296* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2297 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2298 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2299
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2300* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2301 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2302 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2303 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2304 when the mode is enabled.
2305
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2306* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2307 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2308 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2309 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2310 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2311 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2312 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2313
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2314* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2315 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2317Version 2.16
2318
2319* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2320
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2321 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2322 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2323 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2324 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2325 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2326 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2327 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2328 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2329 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2330 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2331 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2332 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2333 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2334 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2335 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2336 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2337 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2338 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2339 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2340 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2341 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2342 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2343 14277, 14278.
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2345* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2346 configuring glibc with:
2347 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2348 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2349 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2350
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2351* ISO C11 support:
2352
2353 + define static_assert
2354
2355 + do not declare gets
2356
2357 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2358
2359 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2360 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2361 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2362 implementation.
8d44e150 2363
74033a25 2364 + timespec_get added
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2365
2366 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2367
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2368 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2369
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2370 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2371
9dc4e1fb 2372* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2373
2374* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2375
2376* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2377 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2378
2379* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2381
2382* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2383 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2384 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2385 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2386 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2387
21708942 2388* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2389 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2390 before 2.6.
83678f76 2391
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2392* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2393 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2394 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2395
83678f76 2396* New locales: mag_IN
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2397
2398* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2399 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2400 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2401 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2402 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2403
2404* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2405
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2406* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2407 and Will Schmidt.
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2408
2409* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2410
2411* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2412 without a previously built glibc.
2413
2414* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2415 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2416
2417* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2418 now supported for ARM processors.
2419
2420* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2421 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2422 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2423
2424* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2425
2426* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2427 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2428 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2429 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2430
2431* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2432 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2433 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2434 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2435
2436* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2437 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2438 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2439 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2440 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2441
2442* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2443 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2444 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2445 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 2447Version 2.15
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2449* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2450
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2451 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2452 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2453 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2454 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2455 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2456 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2457 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2459* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2461
2462* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2463 and support for initgroups lookups.
2464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2465
2466* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2467 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2468
2469* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2470 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2471
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2472* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2473 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2474 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2475
d42964a0 2476* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2477 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2478
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2479* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2480 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2481 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2482
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2483* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2485
2486* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2488
2489* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2491
2492* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2494
2495* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2496 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2497
2498* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2500
2501* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2502
2503* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2505
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2506* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2507 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2508
6b64057b 2509* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2513* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2514
553149f6 2515 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2516 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2517 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2518 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2519 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2520 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2521 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2522 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2523 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2524 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2525
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2526* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2527 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2528 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2529 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2530
2531 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2532 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2533 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2534 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2535
c6489db3 2536* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2537 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2538
72d1dddb 2539* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2540 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2541
2542* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2543
2544* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2546
2547* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2548 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2549 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2550 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2552Version 2.13
2553
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2555
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2556 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2557 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2558 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2559 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2560 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2561
10b3bedc 2562* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
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ac2b484c 2564* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2567 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2570Version 2.12
2571
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2573
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2574 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2575 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2576 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2577 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2578 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2579 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2580 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2581 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2583* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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2585* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2586
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2587* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2588
2589* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2590 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2591 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2592
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2594 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2595 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2596 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2597 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2598
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2602
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2604
2605 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2606 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2607 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2608 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2609 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2610 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
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2613 mkostemps64
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2615
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2617 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2618
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2619* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2620 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2621
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2622* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2623
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9d36a6c4 2625 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2626 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2628
9d36a6c4 2629 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2631
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2632* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2633 strstr, strcasestr.
2634 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2635
2636* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2637 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2638
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2639* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2640 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2641
2642* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2644
2645* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2646 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2647 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2648 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2649 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2650 necessity is every process again.
2651 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2652
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2654 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2655
2656* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2657 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2658
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2659* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2660 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2662
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2666
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2668
2669 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2670 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2671 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2672 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2673 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2674
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2677
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e109c612 2679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2680
1fdd89a7 2681* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2682 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2684* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2685 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 2687* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2688 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2690* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2691 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2692
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2693* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2694 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2695
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2696* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2697 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2698
2699* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2700 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2702
735be400 2703* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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2706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2707
2708* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2709 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2711
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2712* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2714
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2715* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2716 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2717 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2718 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2719 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2722Version 2.9
2723
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2725
2726 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2727 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2728 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2729 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2730 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2731
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2733 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2734
2735* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2736 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2738* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2741* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2742 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2744
2745* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2746 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2750* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2751 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2753* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2754 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2755 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2757
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2758* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2759 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2761* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2762 Sinhala)
48b22986 2763 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2765* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2767Version 2.8
2768
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2769* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2770
2771 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2772 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2773 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2774 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2775 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2776 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2777 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2778
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2783* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2784 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2785
2786* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2787
2788* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2790
2791* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2792 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2793
2794* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2795 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2796 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2797
2798* Faster memset for x86-64.
2799 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2800
2801* Faster memcpy on x86.
2802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2803
2804* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2807* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2808 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2811
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2813
2814 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2815 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2816 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2817 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2818 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2819
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2820* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2821 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2822
2823* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2824
2825* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2826 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2827 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2828
2829* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2830 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2831
28919a77 2832* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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2833 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2834
2835* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2836
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2837* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2839
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2840* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2841 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2842
2843* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2844 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2845
2846* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2847
2848* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2849 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2851* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2852 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2853 yo_NG.
2854
2855+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2861
2862 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2863 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2864 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2865 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2866 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2867 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2868 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2869 4702, 4858
2870
bce20b9a 2871* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2874
b21fa963 2875* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2878
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2880
2881 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2882 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2883 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2884 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2885 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2886 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2887 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2888 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2889 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2890
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2893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2895* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2896 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2897
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2900* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2902* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2903 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2904 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2907
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2910 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2912
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2914 Ulrich Drepper.
2915
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2916* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2917
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2918* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2919 Ulrich Drepper.
2920
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2921* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2922
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2924 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2927
2928* More overflow detection functions.
2929
2930* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2931 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2933 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2934 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2935 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2936 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2937 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2938 by Masahide Washizawa.
2939
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2941 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2943* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2944 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2945 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2946 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2949 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2950
2951* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2952
2953* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2954 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2955 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2956
2957* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2958 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2959
2960* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2961 for compatibility with some other systems.
2962
2963* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2966
2967* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2968
2969 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2970 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2971 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2972 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2973 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2974 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2975
2976 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2977
2978* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2979
2980* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2982Version 2.3.5
2983
2984* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2985
2986 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2987 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2988 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2989 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2990
2991 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2994
2995* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2998* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2999 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3001
3002* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3003 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3004
0325dd20 3005* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3006 efficiently.
3007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3008
3009* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3010 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3011 handling data.
3012
3013* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3014 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3015 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3017* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3018 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3019
3020* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3021 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3022 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3023 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3024
3025* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3026 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3027 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3028 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3029
3030* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3031 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3032 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3033 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3034 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3036Version 2.3.3
3037
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3038* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3039 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3040
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3041* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3042 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3043
69be6aaf 3044* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3045 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3046
3047* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3048 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3049
3050* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3051 by Roland McGrath.
3052
c5af724c 3053* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3054 and Ulrich Drepper.
3055
3056* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3057 RFC 3484.
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3059Version 2.3.2
3060
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3061* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3062 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3063 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3064 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3065 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3066 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3067 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3068 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3069 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3070
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3071* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3072 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3073 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3074
3075* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3076
3077* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3078 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3079
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3080* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3081 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3082
52a16e58 3083* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3084
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3085* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3086 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3087
3088* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3089 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3090 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3091 of weak definition in ld.so.
3092
3093* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3094 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3095
3096* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3097 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3101* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3102 charsets.
3103
3104* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3105 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3106
bb0ec5bd 3107* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3108 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3109
3110* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3111 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3112
bb0ec5bd 3113* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3114 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3115 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3116
3117* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3118 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3119
bb0ec5bd 3120* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3121 implementation of regex.
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3122
3123* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3124 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3125
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3126* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3127 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3128
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3129* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3130 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3131 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3132
3133* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3134 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3135
3136* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3137 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3138 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3139
3140* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3141 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3142
3143* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3144 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3145 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3146
3147* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3149Version 2.2.6
3150
3151* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3152 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3153
3154* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3155 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3157Version 2.2.5
3158
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3159* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3160 128-bit long double format.
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3162* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3163 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3164
ad2e4f18 3165* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3166
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3167* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3168
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3169* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3170 as well.
3171
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3172* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3173 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3174
3175* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3177Version 2.2.4
3178
2995f70e 3179* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3180 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3181
3182* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3183 support Unicode 3.1.
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3184
3185* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3186 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3187
69d5f925 3188* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3189
69d5f925 3190* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3191 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3192 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3193
3194* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3195 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3196
3197* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3198 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3199
3200* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3202Version 2.2.3
3203
1746f2b0 3204* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3205 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3206 in float, double, and long double format.
3207
f128331c 3208* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3209 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3210 128-bit long double format.
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3212* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3213 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3214 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3215 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3216
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3217* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3218 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3219 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3220
3221* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3222 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3223
3224* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3225 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3226
3227* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3228 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3229 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3230
3231* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3232 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3233
3234* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3235 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3236
3237* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3239Version 2.2.2
3240
464d97ec 3241* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3242 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3243 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3244 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3245 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3246 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3247 other headers.
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3248
3249* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3250 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3251
3252* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3253 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3254 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3255 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3256
3257* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3258 locales. While
3259
3260 locale -a
3261
3262 only lists the names of the supported locales
3263
3264 locale -a --verbose
3265
3266 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3267 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3269Version 2.2.1
3270
3271* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3272 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3273 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3274 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3275 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3276
3277 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3278
3279 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3280
3281 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3282
3283* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3284 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3285 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3286
3287* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3288 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3289
3290* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3291 changed from the default "C" locale.
3292
3293* The usual bug fixes.
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3295Version 2.2
3296
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3297* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3298 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3299 is in progress.
3300
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3301* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3302
793bd4d9 3303* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 3304
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3305 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3306 obviously requires a database library being available.
3307
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3308* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3309
abbffdf9 3310* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3312* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3313 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3314
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3315* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3316
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3317* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3318 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3319 and Mark Kettenis.
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3320
3321 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3322 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3323 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3324
a00c3ca9 3325 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3326 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3327
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3328* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3329 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3330 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3331
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3332* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3333 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3334 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3335 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3336
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3337 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3338 structures for the wide character tables.
3339
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3340* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3341
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3342* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3343
3344* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3345
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3346* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3347 and Yutaka Niibe.
3348
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3349* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3350
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3351* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3352
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3353* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3354
3355* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3356
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3357* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3358
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3359* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3360 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3361 implemented for Linux.
3362
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3363* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3364 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3365 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3366 versions.
3367
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3368* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3369 Masahide Washizawa.
3370
8f3f1e09 3371* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3373Version 2.1.3
3374
3375* bug fixes
3376
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3378Version 2.1.2
3379
3380* bug fixes
3381
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3383Version 2.1.1
3384
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3385* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3386
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3387* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3388
407d26b7 3389* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3390
3391* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3392
407d26b7 3393* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3394
407d26b7 3395* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3396
3397* Update timezone data files.
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3399* lots of charmaps corrections
3400
3401* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3402
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3404Version 2.1
3405
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3406* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3407 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3408 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3409 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3410 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3411 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3412
c84142e8 3413* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3414 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3415
1fb05e3d 3416* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3417 symbol level.
3418
3419* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3420 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3421
cbdee279 3422* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3423
3424* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3425 numbers.
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cbdee279 3427* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3428
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3429* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3430 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3431
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3432* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3433 library.
3434
e61abf83 3435* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3436 functions from ISO C 9X.
3437
3438* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3439 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3440
a5a0310d 3441* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3443* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3444
3445* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3446
440d13e2 3447* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3448
3449* Optimized string functions have been added.
3450
3451* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3452
3453* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3455* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3456 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3457
3458 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3459 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3460
0dee6738 3461 user system wall
48244d09 3462
0dee6738 3463 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3464
0dee6738 3465 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3466
0dee6738 3467 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3469 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3470
3471 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3472
3473 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3475 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3476 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3477 horribly slow.
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3479 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3480 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3482* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3483
3484* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3485
3486* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3487 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3488
3489* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3491* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3492 Bambrough.
3493
3494* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3495 latest draft standards.
3496
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3497* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3498
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3499* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3500~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3501addseverity NEW: Unix98
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3503argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3504argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3505argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3506argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3507argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3508argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3509argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3510argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3511argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3512argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3513authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3514authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3515authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3516backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3517backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3518backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3519cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3520cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3521cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3522cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3523cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3524cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3525capget NEW: kernel
3526capset NEW: kernel
3527carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3528cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3529cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3530casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3531casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3532casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3533casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3534casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3535casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3536catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3537catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3538catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3539catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3540catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3541catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3543ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3544ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3545ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3546ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3547ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3548ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3549cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3550cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3551cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3552cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3553cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3554cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3555clearerr_locked REMOVED
3556clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3557clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3558clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3559clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3560clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3561clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3562clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3563conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3564conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3565conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3566cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3567cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3568cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3569cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3570cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3571cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3572creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3573crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3574creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3575creat64 NEW: LFS
3576csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3577csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3578csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3579csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3580csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3581csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3582csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3583csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3584csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3585ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3586ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3587ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3588ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3589ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3590ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3591des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3592ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3593endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3594exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3595exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3596exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3597exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3598exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3599exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3600fattach NEW: STREAMS
3601fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3602fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3603fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3604fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3605feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3606fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3607fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3608fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3609feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3610feof_locked REMOVED
3611feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3612ferror_locked REMOVED
3613fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3614fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3615fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3616fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3617feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3618fflush_locked REMOVED
3619ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3620ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3621fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3622fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3623fileno_locked REMOVED
3624fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3625fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3626fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3627fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3628fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3629fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3630fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3631fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3632fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3633fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3634fopen64 NEW: LFS
3635fputc_locked REMOVED
3636fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3637fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3638freopen64 NEW: LFS
3639fseeko NEW: Unix98
3640fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3641fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3642fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3643fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3644ftello NEW: Unix98
3645ftello64 NEW: LFS
3646ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3647ftw64 NEW: LFS
3648fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3649gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3650gamma_r REMOVED
3651gammaf_r REMOVED
3652gammal_r REMOVED
3653getchar_locked REMOVED
3654getdate NEW: Unix98
3655getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3656getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3657getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3658getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 3659getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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3660getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3661getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3662getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3663getutxent NEW: Unix98
3664getutxid NEW: Unix98
3665getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3666glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3667globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3668gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3669gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3670grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3671host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3672iconv NEW: iconv
3673iconv_close NEW: iconv
3674iconv_open NEW: iconv
3675if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3676if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3677if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3678if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3679in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3680in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3681inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3682isastream NEW: STREAMS
3683iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3684key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3685key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3686key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3687key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3688key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3689key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3690key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3691key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3692key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3693llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3694llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3695llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3696llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3697llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3698llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3699log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3700log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3701log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3702lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3703lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3704lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3705lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3706lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3707lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3708lseek64 NEW: LFS
3709makecontext NEW: Unix98
3710mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3711mmap64 NEW: LFS
3712moncontrol REMOVED
3713modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3714nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3715nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3716nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3717nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3718nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3719nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3720netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3721netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3722nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3723nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3724nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3725nftw NEW: Unix98
3726nftw64 NEW: LFS
3727open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3728passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3729pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3730pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3731pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3732pread NEW: Unix98
3733pread64 NEW: LFS
3734printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3735printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3736profil_counter REMOVED
3737pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3738pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3739ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3740ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3741putc_locked REMOVED
3742putchar_locked REMOVED
3743putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3744putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3745putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3746pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3747pwrite NEW: Unix98
3748pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3749readdir64 NEW: LFS
3750readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3751remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3752remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3753remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3754round NEW: ISO C 9x
3755roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3756roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3757rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3758scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3759scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3760scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3761scandir64 NEW: LFS
3762sendfile NEW: kernel
3763setcontext NEW: Unix98
3764setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3765setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3766sighold NEW: Unix98
3767sigignore NEW: Unix98
3768sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3769sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3770sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3771sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3772sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3773sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3774sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3775sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3776statfs64 NEW: LFS
3777statvfs NEW: Unix98
3778statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3779strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3780strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3781strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3782strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3783svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3784svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3785svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3786swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3787tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3788tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3789tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3790tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3791tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3792tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3793trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3794truncate64 NEW: LFS
3795truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3796truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3797umount2 NEW: kernel
3798unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3799updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3800user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3801utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3802versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3803versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3804waitid NEW: Unix98
3805wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3806wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3807wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3808wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3809wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3810wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3811wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3812wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3813wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3814wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3815write_profiling REMOVED
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3816xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3817xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3818xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3819xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3820xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3821xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3822xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3823xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3824xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3825xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3826xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3827xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3828xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3829xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3830xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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3833Version 2.0.6
3834
3835* more bug fixes
3836
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3837\f
3838Version 2.0.5
3839
3840* more bug fixes
3841
3842* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3843
3844* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3845
3846* rewrite of cbrt function
3847
3848* update of timezone data
3849\f
3850Version 2.0.4
3851
3852* more bug fixes
3853\f
3854Version 2.0.3
3855
3856* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3857\f
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3858Version 2.0.2
3859
3860* more bug fixes
3861
3862* add atoll function
3863
3864* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3865
3866* fix math functions
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3867\f
3868Version 2.0.1
3869
3870* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3871
3872* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3873
3874* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3875 the ELF dynamic loader.
3876
3877* support for parallel builds is improved
3878\f
40a4b79f 3879Version 2.0
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3881* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3882 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3883 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3884
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3885* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3886 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3887 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3888 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3889 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3890 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3891 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3892 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3893 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3894 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3895 files in the ELF format.
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3896
3897* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3898 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3899
3900* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3901 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3902 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3903 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3904 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3905 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3906 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3907 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3908 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3909 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3910 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3912* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3913 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3914 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3915 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3916 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3917
f7eac6eb 3918* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3919 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3920 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3921 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3922 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3923
3924* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3926* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3927 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3928 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3929 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3930 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3931 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3932 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3933 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3934 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3935
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3936* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3937 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3938 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3939
3940* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3941 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3942 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3943
3944* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3945 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3946 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3947 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3948
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3949* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3950 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3951 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3952
3953* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3954 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3955 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3956
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3957* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3958 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3959
f7eac6eb 3960* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3961 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3962 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3963 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3964
3965* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3966 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3967 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3968
71733723 3969* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3970 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3971 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3972 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3973 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3974 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3975 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3976 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3977
3978* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3979 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3980 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3981 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3982 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3983 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3984 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3985
3986* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3987 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3988 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3989 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3990 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3991 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3992
3993* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3994 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3995
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3996* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3997 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3998 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4000* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4001
4002* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4003 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4004 their use is discouraged.
4005
4006* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4007 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4009* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4010 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4011
4012* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4013 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4014
4015* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4016 see <dirent.h>.
4017
4018* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4019 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4020 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4021 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4022 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4023
4024* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4025 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4026 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4027 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4028
4029* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4030 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4031
4032* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4033 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4034 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4035 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4036 number generator.
4037
4038* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4039 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4040
4041* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4042 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4043
71733723 4044* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4045 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4046 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4047 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4049* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4050
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4051* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4052 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4053 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4054
4055* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4056 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4058* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4059 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4060 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4061 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4062
4063* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4064 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4065 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4066 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4067 programs already written to use it.)
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4068
4069* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4070 constants.
4071
4072* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4073 with 4.4 BSD.
4074
4075* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4076 a given effective group ID.
4077
4078* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4079 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4080 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4081 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4082
4083* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4084 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4085 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4086 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4087 doing the same thing.
4088
4089* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4090 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4091
4092* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4093 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4094
4095* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4096
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4097* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4098 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4099 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4100 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4101 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4102
4103* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4104 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4105
4106* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4107 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4108 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4109 function.
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4110
4111* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4112
4113* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4114 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4115 strings.
4116
4117* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4118 and writing the utmp file.
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4120* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4121 Thorsten Kukuk.
4122
4123* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4124 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4125 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4126
4127* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4128 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4129
4130* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4131 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4132 specification.
4133
4134* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4135 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4136 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4137 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4138
4139* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4140 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4141 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4142
4143* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4144 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4145 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4146 expression matcher.
4147
4148* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4149 functionality.
4150
4151* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4152 by Ulrich Drepper.
4153
4154* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4155
4156* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4157 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4158 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4159\f
4160Version 1.09
4161
4162* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4163
4164* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4165 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4166
4167* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4168 want to put themselves in the background.
4169
4170* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4171 run without an operating system.
4172
4173* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4174 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4175
4176* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4177 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4178
4179* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4180
4181* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4182 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4183 have YP (aka NIS).
4184
4185* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4186 conventions.
4187
4188* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4189 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4190\f
4191Version 1.08
4192
4193* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4194 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4195 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4196
4197* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4198 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4199
4200* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4201 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4202
4203* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4204
4205* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4206
4207* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4208 compatibility.
4209
4210* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4211 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4212 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4213
4214* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4215
4216* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4217 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4218 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4219
4220* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4221 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4222 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4223 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4224 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4225 on a block).
4226
4227* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4228 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4229 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4230 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4231 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4232 cross-compiler.
4233
4234* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4235 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4236\f
4237Version 1.07
4238
4239* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4240 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4241
4242* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4243 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4244 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4245
4246* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4247 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4248 address of the last character written.
4249
4250* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4251 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4252
4253* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4254 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4255
4256* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4257 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4258 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4259 you dereference this pointer.
4260
4261* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4262 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4263
4264* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4265 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4266 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4267 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4268
4269* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4270 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4271 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4272 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4273\f
4274Version 1.06
4275
4276* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4277 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4278 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4279 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4280 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4281
4282* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4283
4284* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4285
4286* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4287 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4288
4289* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4290 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4291
4292* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4293 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4294
4295* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4296 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4297 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4298 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4299 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4300
4301* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4302 to the error code in `errno'.
4303
4304* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4305 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4306 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4307 malloc'd string.
4308
4309* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4310 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4311 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4312
4313* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4314 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4316Version 1.05
4317
4318* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4319 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4320 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4321
4322* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4323 characters.
4324
4325* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4326 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4327
4328* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4329\f
4330Version 1.04
4331
4332* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4333 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4334 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4335 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4336
4337* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4338 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4339 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4340
4341* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4342 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4343
4344* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4345 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4346 made itself into a shared library.
4347
4348* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4349 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4350
4351* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4352 with limited length.
4353
4354* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4355
4356* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4357
4358* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4359
4360* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4361 function for traversing a directory tree.
4362
4363* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4364 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4365 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4366 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4367
4368* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4369 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4370
4371* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4372
4373* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4374 things to your strings.
4375
4376* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4377
4378* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4379 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4380 supporting those systems.
4381
4382* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4383 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4384 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4385 configuration files.
4386
4387* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4388 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4389
4390* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4391 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4392 in <strings.h>.)
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4393
4394* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4395 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4396 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4397 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4398 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4399 required storage is not available.
4400
4401* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4402 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4403
4404* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4405 latest files released from Berkeley.
4406\f
4407----------------------------------------------------------------------
4408Copyright information:
4409
09533208 4410Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4411
4412 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4413 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4414 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4415 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4416
4417 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4418 of this document, or of portions of it,
4419 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4420 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4421\f
4422Local variables:
4423version-control: never
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