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556a2007 | 1 | GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2011-10-15 |
f57e41a5 | 2 | Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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3 | See the end for copying conditions. |
4 | ||
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5 | Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> |
6 | using `glibc' in the "product" field. | |
ee1a7fab | 7 | \f |
e80fab37 | 8 | Version 2.15 |
11988f8f | 9 | |
c0244a9d UD |
10 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
11 | ||
bf582445 AJ |
12 | 6779, 6783, 9696, 11589, 12403, 12847, 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12907, |
13 | 12922, 12935, 13007, 13021, 13067, 13068, 13090, 13092, 13114, 13118, | |
556a2007 | 14 | 13123, 13134, 13138, 13150, 13179, 13192, 13268, 13291 |
c0244a9d | 15 | |
11988f8f UD |
16 | * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process |
17 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
9f2da732 UD |
18 | |
19 | * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db | |
20 | and support for initgroups lookups. | |
21 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0b1cbaae L |
22 | |
23 | * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32. | |
24 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
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25 | |
26 | * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64. | |
27 | Contributed by HJ Lu. | |
99710781 | 28 | |
49d42c37 UD |
29 | * Optimized strcat and strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp on x86-32 and |
30 | x86-64. | |
99710781 | 31 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
c55fbd1e | 32 | |
d42964a0 | 33 | * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32. |
693fb948 LD |
34 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
35 | ||
be13f7bf | 36 | * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp for x86-64 and x86-32. |
093ecf92 LD |
37 | Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva. |
38 | ||
c55fbd1e UD |
39 | * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64 |
40 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
a0f33f99 UD |
41 | |
42 | * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added. | |
43 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
684ae515 UD |
44 | |
45 | * nscd now also caches the netgroup database. | |
46 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0ac5ae23 UD |
47 | |
48 | * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option. | |
49 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
e80fab37 | 50 | \f |
dded88cd | 51 | Version 2.14 |
9f94d2ea | 52 | |
50934221 UD |
53 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
54 | ||
553149f6 | 55 | 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257, |
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56 | 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724, |
57 | 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945, | |
7ae22829 | 58 | 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350, |
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59 | 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489, |
60 | 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583, | |
61 | 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655, | |
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62 | 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723, |
63 | 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792, | |
f16846a5 | 64 | 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841 |
50934221 | 65 | |
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66 | * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working |
67 | but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore. | |
68 | Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC. | |
6b1e7d19 | 69 | The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits. |
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70 | |
71 | Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link | |
a0446976 UD |
72 | programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the |
73 | removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers. | |
7b57bfe5 UD |
74 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
75 | ||
c6489db3 | 76 | * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at, |
f1f929d7 | 77 | syncfs, setns, sendmmsg |
83fe108b | 78 | |
72d1dddb | 79 | * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH, |
a7b80ed5 | 80 | yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU |
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81 | |
82 | * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774 | |
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83 | |
84 | * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs | |
85 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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86 | |
87 | * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed | |
88 | from the default implementation in the next version. The design never | |
89 | worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do | |
90 | not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally. | |
9f94d2ea | 91 | \f |
4828935d LM |
92 | Version 2.13 |
93 | ||
ac2b484c UD |
94 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
95 | ||
c30b7ee2 UD |
96 | 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611, |
97 | 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979, | |
98 | 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113, | |
99 | 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348, | |
100 | 12378, 12394, 12397 | |
ac2b484c | 101 | |
10b3bedc | 102 | * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark |
c08fb0d7 | 103 | |
ac2b484c | 104 | * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp |
8d50becc | 105 | |
e9f82e0d UD |
106 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2), |
107 | strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2) | |
8d50becc | 108 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
4828935d | 109 | \f |
ee1a7fab UD |
110 | Version 2.12 |
111 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
112 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
113 | ||
114 | 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, 10918, | |
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115 | 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, 11007, |
116 | 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, 11093, | |
117 | 11115, 11120, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184, | |
118 | 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194, | |
119 | 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279, | |
120 | 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, | |
5ae958d7 | 121 | 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571 |
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122 | |
123 | * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np | |
d36b9613 | 124 | |
ee1a7fab UD |
125 | * New Linux interface: recvmmsg |
126 | ||
5e4295fb UD |
127 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller. |
128 | ||
129 | * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the | |
130 | EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header. | |
131 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
132 | ||
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133 | * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table |
134 | will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies. | |
135 | Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be | |
136 | missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris. | |
137 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
138 | ||
d36b9613 | 139 | * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU |
b50f8e42 UD |
140 | \f |
141 | Version 2.11 | |
142 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
143 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
144 | ||
145 | 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183, | |
146 | 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229, | |
147 | 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416, | |
148 | 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564, | |
149 | 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784, | |
150 | 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847 | |
151 | ||
3a83202d UD |
152 | * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps, |
153 | mkostemps64 | |
3d5243d4 UD |
154 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
155 | ||
24ab9c76 | 156 | * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack |
b50f8e42 UD |
157 | frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
158 | ||
b8706f70 UD |
159 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables. |
160 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
161 | ||
51a71cf0 UD |
162 | * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra. |
163 | ||
0122f28e | 164 | * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp, |
9d36a6c4 | 165 | strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), |
7f3146e7 | 166 | strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2). |
0122f28e UD |
167 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. |
168 | ||
9d36a6c4 | 169 | strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3). |
0122f28e UD |
170 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
171 | ||
9d36a6c4 UD |
172 | * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk, |
173 | strstr, strcasestr. | |
174 | Contributed by H.J. Lu. | |
175 | ||
176 | * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64. | |
177 | Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper. | |
178 | ||
0122f28e UD |
179 | * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so. |
180 | Implemented by H.J. Lu. | |
181 | ||
182 | * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added. | |
183 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
184 | ||
185 | * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more | |
186 | broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not | |
187 | handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending | |
188 | the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf | |
189 | can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the | |
190 | necessity is every process again. | |
191 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
192 | ||
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193 | * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup. |
194 | Implemented by Adam Tkac. | |
195 | ||
196 | * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x. | |
197 | Implemented by Andreas Krebbel. | |
198 | ||
4bc1b896 UD |
199 | * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel |
200 | support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64. | |
201 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
202 | ||
9dd5b8a1 | 203 | * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM |
f1092afe UD |
204 | \f |
205 | Version 2.10 | |
206 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
207 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
208 | ||
209 | 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098, | |
210 | 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736, | |
211 | 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881, | |
212 | 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052, | |
213 | 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128 | |
214 | ||
bb066545 | 215 | * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info |
e109c612 UD |
216 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
217 | ||
425ce2ed | 218 | * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64. |
e109c612 | 219 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
6f5c3117 | 220 | |
1fdd89a7 | 221 | * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This |
735be400 | 222 | could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code. |
1fdd89a7 | 223 | |
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224 | * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are |
225 | now in POSIX. | |
77db439e | 226 | |
1f04d005 | 227 | * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo |
6cbe890a | 228 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
1f04d005 | 229 | |
610e67ed UD |
230 | * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit |
231 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
232 | ||
878b72c5 UD |
233 | * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime |
234 | using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
235 | ||
e109c612 UD |
236 | * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in |
237 | NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
238 | ||
239 | * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient | |
240 | but higher performing in multi-threaded programs. | |
241 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
242 | ||
735be400 | 243 | * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN |
878b72c5 | 244 | |
84aa52d7 | 245 | * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64. |
9d26efa9 UD |
246 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
247 | ||
248 | * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types | |
249 | and extend existing format specifiers. | |
a152f366 UD |
250 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
251 | ||
c7e74e59 UD |
252 | * Handling for group shadow files has been added. |
253 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
254 | ||
57be3fd7 UD |
255 | * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS |
256 | servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS | |
257 | server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout | |
258 | in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put | |
259 | 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf. | |
260 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
28919a77 | 261 | \f |
b29899ae UD |
262 | Version 2.9 |
263 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
264 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
265 | ||
266 | 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461, | |
267 | 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713, | |
268 | 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843, | |
269 | 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966, | |
270 | 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029 | |
271 | ||
b29899ae | 272 | * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked |
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273 | up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
274 | ||
275 | * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64. | |
276 | Implemented by Alexandre Oliva. | |
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277 | |
278 | * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite. | |
279 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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280 | |
281 | * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, | |
282 | htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh. | |
283 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
284 | ||
285 | * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n). | |
286 | Implemented by Eric Blake. | |
e038616f | 287 | |
8ec2550e | 288 | * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2 |
e038616f UD |
289 | |
290 | * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the | |
ebcc1f4d | 291 | close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
e038616f | 292 | |
7b3ba2c4 UD |
293 | * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't |
294 | implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really | |
295 | use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis. | |
296 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
297 | ||
e038616f UD |
298 | * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec |
299 | flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
48b22986 | 300 | |
bf837fa3 UD |
301 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu, |
302 | Sinhala) | |
48b22986 | 303 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. |
0a26fc4d UD |
304 | |
305 | * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW. | |
b29899ae | 306 | \f |
28919a77 UD |
307 | Version 2.8 |
308 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
309 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
310 | ||
311 | 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220, | |
312 | 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382, | |
313 | 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454, | |
314 | 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600, | |
315 | 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768, | |
316 | 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979, | |
317 | 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042 | |
318 | ||
e038616f | 319 | * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA. |
b4354cf4 | 320 | |
77751669 | 321 | * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8. |
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322 | |
323 | * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati). | |
324 | Implemented by Pravin Satpute. | |
325 | ||
326 | * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID | |
327 | ||
328 | * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries | |
329 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
330 | ||
331 | * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often. | |
332 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
333 | ||
334 | * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf, | |
335 | vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf. | |
336 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
337 | ||
338 | * Faster memset for x86-64. | |
339 | Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu. | |
340 | ||
341 | * Faster memcpy on x86. | |
342 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
343 | ||
344 | * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX). | |
345 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
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346 | |
347 | * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants. | |
348 | Implemented by Stephen Munroe. | |
46c38bd7 | 349 | \f |
e1db0493 UD |
350 | Version 2.7 |
351 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
352 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
353 | ||
354 | 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566, | |
355 | 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773, | |
356 | 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925, | |
357 | 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063, | |
358 | 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186 | |
359 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
360 | * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open. |
361 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
362 | ||
363 | * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
364 | ||
365 | * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance | |
366 | by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested. | |
367 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek. | |
368 | ||
369 | * PPC optimizations to math and string functions. | |
370 | Implemented by Steven Munroe. | |
371 | ||
28919a77 | 372 | * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional |
e1db0493 UD |
373 | options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
374 | ||
375 | * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
376 | ||
0304f168 UD |
377 | * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write. |
378 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
379 | ||
e1db0493 UD |
380 | * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation. |
381 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. | |
382 | ||
383 | * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc. | |
384 | Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
385 | ||
386 | * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
387 | ||
388 | * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption. | |
389 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
0304f168 UD |
390 | |
391 | * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG, | |
392 | ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN, | |
393 | yo_NG. | |
394 | ||
395 | + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU. | |
396 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
e1db0493 | 397 | \f |
11bf311e | 398 | Version 2.6 |
46c38bd7 | 399 | |
d36b9613 UD |
400 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
401 | ||
402 | 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348, | |
403 | 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493, | |
404 | 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842, | |
405 | 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991, | |
406 | 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114, | |
407 | 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392, | |
408 | 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586, | |
409 | 4702, 4858 | |
410 | ||
bce20b9a | 411 | * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu. |
46c38bd7 | 412 | |
4a44ce79 UD |
413 | * New generic interfaces: strerror_l. |
414 | ||
b21fa963 | 415 | * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
3af48b5b UD |
416 | \f |
417 | Version 2.5 | |
418 | ||
d36b9613 UD |
419 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: |
420 | ||
421 | 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784, | |
422 | 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182, | |
423 | 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472, | |
424 | 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526, | |
425 | 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693, | |
426 | 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841, | |
427 | 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998, | |
428 | 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189, | |
429 | 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273 | |
430 | ||
3af48b5b | 431 | * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also |
457b559e UD |
432 | handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled. |
433 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
3af48b5b | 434 | |
3142b1ac UD |
435 | * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file. |
436 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
437 | ||
871b9158 | 438 | * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice. |
1e528c6e UD |
439 | |
440 | * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov. | |
3af48b5b | 441 | |
3142b1ac UD |
442 | * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate |
443 | option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results | |
444 | of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some | |
457b559e | 445 | site might have problems with the default behavior. |
3142b1ac UD |
446 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
447 | ||
07bfff20 | 448 | * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the |
3142b1ac UD |
449 | SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide |
450 | to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once. | |
451 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
452 | ||
07bfff20 UD |
453 | * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by |
454 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
455 | ||
871b9158 UD |
456 | * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper. |
457 | ||
d5ba53f9 UD |
458 | * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and |
459 | Ulrich Drepper. | |
460 | ||
ad2a3c07 UD |
461 | * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek. |
462 | ||
88cc61e8 UD |
463 | * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN, |
464 | or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME. | |
2e92188d | 465 | \f |
137e6462 UD |
466 | Version 2.4 |
467 | ||
468 | * More overflow detection functions. | |
469 | ||
470 | * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153, | |
471 | IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba. | |
1aa4e40a | 472 | |
4973cbe5 UD |
473 | More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097, |
474 | IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144, | |
475 | IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517, | |
476 | IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712, | |
477 | IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed | |
478 | by Masahide Washizawa. | |
479 | ||
1aa4e40a UD |
480 | * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using |
481 | LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
da0eaa47 RM |
482 | |
483 | * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no | |
484 | longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels. | |
485 | For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we | |
486 | recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. | |
4973cbe5 | 487 | |
35129bc0 RM |
488 | * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, |
489 | but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. | |
490 | ||
491 | * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. | |
492 | ||
493 | * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, | |
494 | futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, | |
495 | renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. | |
496 | ||
497 | * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, | |
498 | inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. | |
499 | ||
500 | * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, | |
501 | for compatibility with some other systems. | |
502 | ||
503 | * Timezone data updated to 2006b version. | |
137e6462 | 504 | \f |
e6a9beca RM |
505 | Version 2.3.6 |
506 | ||
507 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
508 | ||
509 | 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961, | |
510 | 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, | |
511 | 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, | |
512 | 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109, | |
513 | 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252, | |
514 | 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534 | |
515 | ||
516 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
517 | ||
518 | * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library. | |
519 | ||
520 | * Timezone data updated to 2005m version. | |
521 | \f | |
da232bf9 RM |
522 | Version 2.3.5 |
523 | ||
524 | * The following bugs are resolved with this release: | |
525 | ||
526 | 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719, | |
527 | 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736, | |
528 | 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776, | |
529 | 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825 | |
530 | ||
531 | Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug. | |
532 | \f | |
a55bda85 UD |
533 | Version 2.3.4 |
534 | ||
535 | * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far. | |
536 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
8a1f658b UD |
537 | |
538 | * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded. | |
539 | For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes. | |
540 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
541 | ||
542 | * nscd can now perform SELinux checks. | |
543 | Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>. | |
544 | ||
0325dd20 | 545 | * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed |
8a1f658b UD |
546 | efficiently. |
547 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
548 | ||
549 | * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when | |
550 | compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception | |
551 | handling data. | |
552 | ||
553 | * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when | |
554 | it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate | |
0325dd20 | 555 | the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
8a1f658b UD |
556 | |
557 | * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int | |
0325dd20 UD |
558 | lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
559 | ||
560 | * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate | |
561 | namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course, | |
562 | like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically | |
563 | linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
564 | ||
565 | * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions | |
566 | were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by | |
567 | Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible. | |
720817e7 RM |
568 | Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper. |
569 | ||
570 | * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that | |
571 | have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from | |
572 | the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers. | |
573 | These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module | |
574 | that is usable as an add-on when building the library. | |
a55bda85 | 575 | \f |
3a601d31 RM |
576 | Version 2.3.3 |
577 | ||
45e4762c RM |
578 | * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to |
579 | interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface. | |
580 | ||
3a601d31 RM |
581 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64; |
582 | implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath. | |
925c3c5c | 583 | |
69be6aaf | 584 | * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information. |
925c3c5c UD |
585 | Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk. |
586 | ||
587 | * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF. | |
588 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
97fd3a30 UD |
589 | |
590 | * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly | |
591 | by Roland McGrath. | |
592 | ||
c5af724c | 593 | * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek |
97fd3a30 UD |
594 | and Ulrich Drepper. |
595 | ||
596 | * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to | |
597 | RFC 3484. | |
3a601d31 | 598 | \f |
747bf98e RM |
599 | Version 2.3.2 |
600 | ||
f87277f2 RM |
601 | * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data |
602 | were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. | |
603 | Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' | |
604 | object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. | |
605 | The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> | |
606 | create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function | |
607 | `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so | |
608 | parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added | |
609 | in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. | |
610 | ||
747bf98e RM |
611 | * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which |
612 | have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> | |
613 | and are now also available on the Hurd. | |
614 | ||
615 | * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64. | |
d62507dd RM |
616 | |
617 | * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. | |
618 | This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. | |
52a16e58 | 619 | |
f87277f2 RM |
620 | * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for |
621 | PowerPC machines with no FPU. | |
622 | ||
52a16e58 | 623 | * fexecve is implemented on Linux. |
f9ad060c | 624 | |
f87277f2 RM |
625 | * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to |
626 | specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. | |
9ef0a840 UD |
627 | |
628 | * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented | |
629 | in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This | |
630 | change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling | |
631 | of weak definition in ld.so. | |
632 | ||
633 | * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived | |
634 | at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately. | |
635 | ||
636 | * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The | |
637 | AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled. | |
747bf98e | 638 | \f |
03a2c647 | 639 | Version 2.3 |
37fb1084 | 640 | |
03a2c647 UD |
641 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164 |
642 | charsets. | |
643 | ||
644 | * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding | |
645 | options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". | |
47e8b443 | 646 | |
bb0ec5bd | 647 | * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in |
47e8b443 | 648 | the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. |
c17f665b UD |
649 | |
650 | * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional | |
651 | tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. | |
8e57fc70 | 652 | |
bb0ec5bd | 653 | * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating |
91e6367e UD |
654 | copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of |
655 | the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
207b66ce UD |
656 | |
657 | * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based | |
658 | on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. | |
3b0bdc72 | 659 | |
bb0ec5bd | 660 | * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant |
3b0bdc72 | 661 | implementation of regex. |
02779eaa UD |
662 | |
663 | * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support | |
664 | Unicode 3.2. | |
be45f421 | 665 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
666 | * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are |
667 | not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. | |
be45f421 | 668 | |
bb0ec5bd RM |
669 | * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF |
670 | thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. | |
671 | Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. | |
be45f421 UD |
672 | |
673 | * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, | |
f87277f2 | 674 | EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. |
a753ffb2 RM |
675 | |
676 | * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': | |
677 | BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. | |
678 | Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath. | |
6a9340b5 UD |
679 | |
680 | * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale | |
681 | archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper. | |
dd4f2115 UD |
682 | |
683 | * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions | |
684 | inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath, | |
685 | and Ulrich Drepper. | |
c843e065 RM |
686 | |
687 | * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux. | |
688 | \f | |
45061a15 RM |
689 | Version 2.2.6 |
690 | ||
691 | * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the | |
692 | old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3). | |
693 | ||
694 | * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file | |
695 | with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name. | |
03a2c647 | 696 | \f |
a8ae31c2 UD |
697 | Version 2.2.5 |
698 | ||
76321a25 AJ |
699 | * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the |
700 | 128-bit long double format. | |
a8ae31c2 | 701 | |
557a9213 UD |
702 | * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160, |
703 | IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets. | |
a8ae31c2 | 704 | |
ad2e4f18 | 705 | * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux. |
a8ae31c2 | 706 | |
7d0c5823 RM |
707 | * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd. |
708 | ||
a8ae31c2 UD |
709 | * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams |
710 | as well. | |
711 | ||
45061a15 RM |
712 | * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils |
713 | versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations. | |
8e57fc70 UD |
714 | |
715 | * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu. | |
7d0c5823 | 716 | \f |
33996419 AJ |
717 | Version 2.2.4 |
718 | ||
2995f70e | 719 | * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh, |
aff17a50 | 720 | asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format. |
8fee1bb0 UD |
721 | |
722 | * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to | |
723 | support Unicode 3.1. | |
86dbe05e UD |
724 | |
725 | * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels. | |
726 | Patch by Isamu Hasegawa. | |
045fcd26 | 727 | |
69d5f925 | 728 | * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks. |
045fcd26 | 729 | |
69d5f925 | 730 | * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through |
045fcd26 UD |
731 | iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file. |
732 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
733 | ||
734 | * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty | |
735 | severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger. | |
736 | ||
737 | * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio | |
738 | extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath. | |
129d706d UD |
739 | |
740 | * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries. | |
33996419 | 741 | \f |
2ace5721 UD |
742 | Version 2.2.3 |
743 | ||
1746f2b0 | 744 | * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and |
2ace5721 UD |
745 | accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions |
746 | in float, double, and long double format. | |
747 | ||
f128331c | 748 | * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc, |
b8750342 UD |
749 | and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the |
750 | 128-bit long double format. | |
07f951e4 | 751 | |
e4d82761 UD |
752 | * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added. |
753 | The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv | |
754 | <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis | |
755 | <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>. | |
756 | ||
2ace5721 UD |
757 | * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed |
758 | after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments. | |
759 | No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
b8a8413c UD |
760 | |
761 | * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky | |
762 | <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>. | |
a66f0958 UD |
763 | |
764 | * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
765 | of functions for Linux/IA-64. | |
481b550f UD |
766 | |
767 | * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service | |
768 | of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum | |
769 | <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f128331c UD |
770 | |
771 | * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext | |
772 | family of functions for Linux/S390. | |
232fdf8c UD |
773 | |
774 | * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family | |
775 | of functions for Linux/x86. | |
eacde9d0 UD |
776 | |
777 | * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications. | |
2ace5721 | 778 | \f |
306eeae5 UD |
779 | Version 2.2.2 |
780 | ||
464d97ec | 781 | * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir |
306eeae5 UD |
782 | we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The |
783 | result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in | |
784 | the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need | |
785 | corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in | |
786 | previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many | |
787 | other headers. | |
464d97ec UD |
788 | |
789 | * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly. | |
790 | Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>. | |
791 | ||
792 | * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles | |
793 | charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be | |
794 | provided and the conversion happens based on this data. | |
795 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
796 | ||
797 | * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed | |
798 | locales. While | |
799 | ||
800 | locale -a | |
801 | ||
802 | only lists the names of the supported locales | |
803 | ||
804 | locale -a --verbose | |
805 | ||
806 | provides details such as country, language, and codeset name. | |
807 | Contributed by Ulrich Drepper. | |
306eeae5 | 808 | \f |
d2defdc4 UD |
809 | Version 2.2.1 |
810 | ||
811 | * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset | |
812 | selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful | |
813 | character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way | |
814 | to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first | |
815 | message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like | |
816 | ||
817 | $ codeset=ISO-8859-2 | |
818 | ||
819 | to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case). | |
820 | ||
821 | Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper. | |
aea6353a UD |
822 | |
823 | * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset), | |
824 | IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset). | |
825 | Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>. | |
234669e2 UD |
826 | |
827 | * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson | |
828 | <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>. | |
829 | ||
830 | * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is | |
831 | changed from the default "C" locale. | |
832 | ||
833 | * The usual bug fixes. | |
d2defdc4 | 834 | \f |
2e92188d UD |
835 | Version 2.2 |
836 | ||
08a2e4a0 GM |
837 | * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's |
838 | new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC | |
839 | is in progress. | |
840 | ||
2e92188d UD |
841 | * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd. |
842 | ||
793bd4d9 | 843 | * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed. |
2e92188d | 844 | |
47b853e8 UD |
845 | Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it |
846 | obviously requires a database library being available. | |
847 | ||
0013b2b1 UD |
848 | * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
849 | ||
abbffdf9 | 850 | * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper. |
01c771d0 | 851 | |
6e8afc1c UD |
852 | * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the |
853 | behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger. | |
854 | ||
591e1ffb UD |
855 | * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek. |
856 | ||
d3436b3c UD |
857 | * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports |
858 | threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley, | |
859 | and Mark Kettenis. | |
2588068b UD |
860 | |
861 | This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since | |
862 | now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it | |
863 | in one thread does not have any effect in other threads. | |
66ac0abe | 864 | |
a00c3ca9 | 865 | The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport |
d3436b3c UD |
866 | protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas. |
867 | ||
1c5d4617 UD |
868 | * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the |
869 | header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library | |
870 | (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard). | |
871 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
872 | * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character |
873 | sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll, | |
874 | strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work. | |
875 | Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. | |
876 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
877 | Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data |
878 | structures for the wide character tables. | |
879 | ||
abbffdf9 UD |
880 | * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
881 | ||
69173865 UD |
882 | * The utmp daemon has been removed. |
883 | ||
884 | * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger. | |
885 | ||
37fb8add UD |
886 | * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima |
887 | and Yutaka Niibe. | |
888 | ||
594cee6c UD |
889 | * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper. |
890 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
891 | * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku. |
892 | ||
594cee6c UD |
893 | * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
894 | ||
895 | * POSIX spinlocks are now available. | |
896 | ||
40c4c9b5 UD |
897 | * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented. |
898 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
899 | * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out |
900 | compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only | |
901 | implemented for Linux. | |
902 | ||
3107c0c5 UD |
903 | * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new |
904 | field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be | |
905 | recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc | |
906 | versions. | |
907 | ||
d2830ba4 UD |
908 | * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by |
909 | Masahide Washizawa. | |
910 | ||
8f3f1e09 UD |
911 | * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu. |
912 | ||
913 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
914 | Compiling the GNU C Library for Linux/ia64 | |
915 | ****************************************** | |
916 | ||
917 | Please refer to the file INSTALL in the same directory as you found | |
918 | this file for general information about configuring and compiling | |
919 | glibc. | |
920 | ||
921 | For general inquiries about glibc under Linux/ia64 please use the | |
922 | following mailing list linux-ia64@linuxia64.org or one of the relevant | |
923 | glibc mailing lists. | |
924 | ||
925 | Recommended Tools for Compilation | |
926 | ================================= | |
927 | ||
928 | In order for glibc-2.2 to build correctly on the ia64 you need at | |
929 | least the following versions of the GNU tools (the : | |
930 | ||
931 | * The Cygnus toolchain snapshot for the ia64 as of August 4 | |
aea6353a UD |
932 | including the provided set of patches. It is however recommend |
933 | you use the October 24 toolchain snapshot or a more recent version. | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
934 | |
935 | OR alternatively you can try the following (the Cygnus toolchain is | |
936 | the recommended solution): | |
937 | ||
938 | * GCC and binutils, GAS and GNU LD out of CVS from | |
aea6353a | 939 | sources.redhat.com as of August 28, 2000 or later. The CVS tree |
8f3f1e09 UD |
940 | may require special patches to work properly on the ia64. |
941 | ||
942 | Configuring and compiling GNU Libc for Linux/ia64 | |
943 | ================================================= | |
944 | ||
945 | The library requires Linux kernel version 2.4.0-test4-000728 or | |
aea6353a UD |
946 | later to funtion properly. Besides that it support for debug libraries |
947 | is currently untested. Hence the following options | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
948 | are required for configuring the library: |
949 | ||
aea6353a | 950 | --disable-debug --enable-kernel=2.4.0 |
8f3f1e09 UD |
951 | |
952 | It is also important that you make sure the library picks up the | |
953 | appropriate kernel header files, if you do not have recent enough | |
954 | kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include, you should use the | |
955 | --with-headers=<path> option to specify the location. | |
956 | ||
957 | As an example I personally use the following options to configure | |
958 | the library: | |
959 | ||
960 | --disable-debug | |
8f3f1e09 UD |
961 | --disable-cvs |
962 | --enable-kernel=2.4.0 | |
963 | --host=ia64-linux | |
964 | --enable-add-ons=yes | |
965 | --prefix=/usr | |
966 | --with-headers=/home/jes/linux/include | |
967 | ||
968 | ||
969 | Good luck | |
970 | ||
971 | Jes Sorensen <jes@linuxcare.com>, | |
aea6353a | 972 | November 14th, 2000 |
8f3f1e09 | 973 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
6f2a8167 UD |
974 | \f |
975 | Version 2.1.3 | |
976 | ||
977 | * bug fixes | |
978 | ||
01c771d0 UD |
979 | \f |
980 | Version 2.1.2 | |
981 | ||
982 | * bug fixes | |
983 | ||
28f540f4 | 984 | \f |
e518937a UD |
985 | Version 2.1.1 |
986 | ||
27995311 UD |
987 | * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added. |
988 | ||
16b0f634 UD |
989 | * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean. |
990 | ||
407d26b7 | 991 | * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code). |
16b0f634 UD |
992 | |
993 | * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0. | |
994 | ||
407d26b7 | 995 | * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx. |
16b0f634 | 996 | |
407d26b7 | 997 | * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader). |
16b0f634 UD |
998 | |
999 | * Update timezone data files. | |
27995311 | 1000 | |
554b8800 UD |
1001 | * lots of charmaps corrections |
1002 | ||
1003 | * some new locale definitions and charmaps | |
1004 | ||
e518937a | 1005 | \f |
c84142e8 UD |
1006 | Version 2.1 |
1007 | ||
da2d1bc5 UD |
1008 | * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to |
1009 | conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been | |
1010 | adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications, | |
1011 | but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use | |
1012 | struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present | |
1013 | a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries. | |
1014 | ||
c84142e8 | 1015 | * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale |
1fb05e3d | 1016 | model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper. |
c84142e8 | 1017 | |
1fb05e3d | 1018 | * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on |
c84142e8 UD |
1019 | symbol level. |
1020 | ||
1021 | * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical | |
1022 | command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. | |
377a515b | 1023 | |
cbdee279 | 1024 | * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. |
377a515b UD |
1025 | |
1026 | * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point | |
cbdee279 | 1027 | numbers. |
377a515b | 1028 | |
cbdee279 | 1029 | * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. |
e61abf83 | 1030 | |
48869012 UD |
1031 | * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides |
1032 | information and interfaces for the available integer types. | |
e61abf83 | 1033 | |
813f4f4d UD |
1034 | * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math |
1035 | library. | |
1036 | ||
e61abf83 | 1037 | * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math |
cbdee279 UD |
1038 | functions from ISO C 9X. |
1039 | ||
1040 | * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or | |
1041 | real valued functions. | |
e61abf83 | 1042 | |
a5a0310d | 1043 | * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. |
e61abf83 | 1044 | |
a5a0310d UD |
1045 | * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. |
1046 | ||
1047 | * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. | |
cbdee279 | 1048 | |
440d13e2 | 1049 | * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv). |
cbdee279 UD |
1050 | |
1051 | * Optimized string functions have been added. | |
1052 | ||
1053 | * The localedata addon is now part of glibc. | |
2eb45444 UD |
1054 | |
1055 | * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper. | |
ea278354 | 1056 | |
48244d09 UD |
1057 | * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching |
1058 | daemon for NSS (nscd). | |
1059 | ||
1060 | Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under | |
1061 | Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes | |
1062 | ||
0dee6738 | 1063 | user system wall |
48244d09 | 1064 | |
0dee6738 | 1065 | using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s |
48244d09 | 1066 | |
0dee6738 | 1067 | using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s |
48244d09 | 1068 | |
0dee6738 | 1069 | using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s |
48244d09 | 1070 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1071 | using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s |
1072 | ||
1073 | using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s | |
1074 | ||
1075 | using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s | |
48244d09 | 1076 | |
48244d09 UD |
1077 | Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times. |
1078 | It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is | |
0dee6738 | 1079 | horribly slow. |
48244d09 | 1080 | |
0dee6738 UD |
1081 | [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was |
1082 | distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced. | |
ea278354 UD |
1083 | |
1084 | * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family. | |
48869012 UD |
1085 | |
1086 | * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module. | |
20833331 UD |
1087 | |
1088 | * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN | |
1089 | and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper). | |
1090 | ||
1091 | * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland). | |
48244d09 | 1092 | |
62595351 UD |
1093 | * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott |
1094 | Bambrough. | |
1095 | ||
1096 | * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the | |
1097 | latest draft standards. | |
1098 | ||
1770a20d UD |
1099 | * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added. |
1100 | ||
48244d09 UD |
1101 | * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release: |
1102 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
62595351 | 1103 | addseverity NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1104 | alphasort64 NEW: LFS |
62595351 UD |
1105 | argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext |
1106 | argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1107 | argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1108 | argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1109 | argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1110 | argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1111 | argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1112 | argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1113 | argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
1114 | argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext | |
e980ca92 UD |
1115 | authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC |
1116 | authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1117 | authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1118 | backtrace NEW: GNU ext. |
1119 | backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext. | |
1120 | backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext. | |
1121 | cacos NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1122 | cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1123 | cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1124 | cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1125 | cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1126 | cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1127 | capget NEW: kernel | |
1128 | capset NEW: kernel | |
1129 | carg NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1130 | cargf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1131 | cargl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1132 | casin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1133 | casinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1134 | casinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1135 | casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1136 | casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1137 | casinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1138 | catan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1139 | catanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1140 | catanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1141 | catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1142 | catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1143 | catanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 | 1144 | cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1145 | ccos NEW: ISO C 9x |
1146 | ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1147 | ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1148 | ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1149 | ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1150 | ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1151 | cexp NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1152 | cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1153 | cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1154 | cimag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1155 | cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1156 | cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1157 | clearerr_locked REMOVED | |
1158 | clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1159 | clog NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1160 | clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1161 | clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1162 | clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1163 | clogf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1164 | clogl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1165 | conj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1166 | conjf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1167 | conjl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1168 | cpow NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1169 | cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1170 | cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1171 | cproj NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1172 | cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1173 | cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1174 | creal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1175 | crealf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1176 | creall NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1177 | creat64 NEW: LFS | |
1178 | csin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1179 | csinf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1180 | csinh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1181 | csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1182 | csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1183 | csinl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1184 | csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1185 | csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1186 | csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1187 | ctan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1188 | ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1189 | ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1190 | ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1191 | ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1192 | ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1193 | des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC |
1194 | ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC | |
62595351 | 1195 | endutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1196 | exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x |
1197 | exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1198 | exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1199 | exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1200 | exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1201 | exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1202 | fattach NEW: STREAMS | |
1203 | fdetach NEW: STREAMS | |
1204 | fdim NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1205 | fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1206 | fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1207 | feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1208 | fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1209 | fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1210 | fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1211 | feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1212 | feof_locked REMOVED | |
1213 | feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1214 | ferror_locked REMOVED | |
1215 | fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1216 | fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1217 | fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1218 | fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1219 | feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1220 | fflush_locked REMOVED | |
1221 | ffsl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1222 | ffsll NEW: GNU ext. | |
1223 | fgetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1224 | fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1225 | fileno_locked REMOVED | |
1226 | fma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1227 | fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1228 | fmal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1229 | fmax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1230 | fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1231 | fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1232 | fmin NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1233 | fminf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1234 | fminl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
62595351 | 1235 | fmtmsg NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1236 | fopen64 NEW: LFS |
1237 | fputc_locked REMOVED | |
1238 | fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1239 | fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1240 | freopen64 NEW: LFS | |
1241 | fseeko NEW: Unix98 | |
1242 | fsetpos64 NEW: LFS | |
1243 | fstatfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1244 | fstatvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1245 | fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1246 | ftello NEW: Unix98 | |
1247 | ftello64 NEW: LFS | |
1248 | ftruncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1249 | ftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1250 | fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext. | |
1251 | gai_strerror NEW: IPv6 | |
1252 | gamma_r REMOVED | |
1253 | gammaf_r REMOVED | |
1254 | gammal_r REMOVED | |
1255 | getchar_locked REMOVED | |
1256 | getdate NEW: Unix98 | |
1257 | getdate_err NEW: Unix98 | |
1258 | getdate_r NEW: GNU ext. | |
1259 | getmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1260 | getnameinfo NEW: IPv6 | |
e980ca92 | 1261 | getnetname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1262 | getpmsg NEW: STREAMS |
1263 | getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1264 | getrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 UD |
1265 | getutxent NEW: Unix98 |
1266 | getutxid NEW: Unix98 | |
1267 | getutxline NEW: Unix98 | |
48244d09 UD |
1268 | glob64 NEW: GNU ext. |
1269 | globfree64 NEW: GNU ext. | |
1270 | gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext. | |
1271 | gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext. | |
1272 | grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
e980ca92 | 1273 | host2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1274 | iconv NEW: iconv |
1275 | iconv_close NEW: iconv | |
1276 | iconv_open NEW: iconv | |
1277 | if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1278 | if_indextoname NEW: IPv6 | |
1279 | if_nameindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1280 | if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6 | |
1281 | in6addr_any NEW: IPv6 | |
1282 | in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6 | |
1283 | inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6 | |
1284 | isastream NEW: STREAMS | |
1285 | iswblank NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 UD |
1286 | key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC |
1287 | key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1288 | key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC | |
1289 | key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC | |
1290 | key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC | |
1291 | key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC | |
1292 | key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC | |
1293 | key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC | |
1294 | key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 UD |
1295 | llrint NEW: ISO C 9x |
1296 | llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1297 | llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1298 | llround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1299 | llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1300 | llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1301 | log2 NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1302 | log2f NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1303 | log2l NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1304 | lrint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1305 | lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1306 | lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1307 | lround NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1308 | lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1309 | lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1310 | lseek64 NEW: LFS | |
1311 | makecontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1312 | mempcpy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1313 | mmap64 NEW: LFS | |
1314 | moncontrol REMOVED | |
1315 | modify_ldt NEW: kernel | |
1316 | nan NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1317 | nanf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1318 | nanl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1319 | nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1320 | nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1321 | nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
e980ca92 UD |
1322 | netname2host NEW: Secure RPC |
1323 | netname2user NEW: Secure RPC | |
42bd0a85 UD |
1324 | nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x |
1325 | nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1326 | nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
48244d09 UD |
1327 | nftw NEW: Unix98 |
1328 | nftw64 NEW: LFS | |
1329 | open64 NEW: LFS | |
e980ca92 | 1330 | passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1331 | pow10 NEW: GNU ext. |
1332 | pow10f NEW: GNU ext. | |
1333 | pow10l NEW: GNU ext. | |
1334 | pread NEW: Unix98 | |
1335 | pread64 NEW: LFS | |
1336 | printf_size NEW: GNU ext. | |
1337 | printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext. | |
1338 | profil_counter REMOVED | |
1339 | pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED | |
1340 | pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED | |
1341 | ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1342 | ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1343 | putc_locked REMOVED | |
1344 | putchar_locked REMOVED | |
1345 | putgrent NEW: GNU ext. | |
1346 | putmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
1347 | putpmsg NEW: STREAMS | |
62595351 | 1348 | pututxline NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1349 | pwrite NEW: Unix98 |
1350 | pwrite64 NEW: LFS | |
1351 | readdir64 NEW: LFS | |
1352 | readdir64_r NEW: LFS | |
1353 | remquo NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1354 | remquof NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1355 | remquol NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1356 | round NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1357 | roundf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1358 | roundl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1359 | rtime NEW: GNU ext. | |
1360 | scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1361 | scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1362 | scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1363 | scandir64 NEW: LFS | |
1364 | sendfile NEW: kernel | |
1365 | setcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1366 | setrlimit64 NEW: LFS | |
62595351 | 1367 | setutxent NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 UD |
1368 | sighold NEW: Unix98 |
1369 | sigignore NEW: Unix98 | |
1370 | sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1371 | sigrelse NEW: Unix98 | |
1372 | sigset NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1373 | sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1374 | sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b | |
1375 | sincos NEW: GNU ext. | |
1376 | sincosf NEW: GNU ext. | |
1377 | sincosl NEW: GNU ext. | |
1378 | statfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1379 | statvfs NEW: Unix98 | |
1380 | statvfs64 NEW: LFS | |
1381 | strcasestr NEW: GNU ext. | |
48244d09 UD |
1382 | strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x |
1383 | strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1384 | strverscmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
e980ca92 | 1385 | svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 UD |
1386 | svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx |
1387 | svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext | |
1388 | swapcontext NEW: Unix98 | |
1389 | tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
1390 | tdestroy NEW: GNU ext. | |
1391 | tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1392 | tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1393 | tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1394 | tmpfile64 NEW: LFS | |
1395 | trunc NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1396 | truncate64 NEW: LFS | |
1397 | truncf NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1398 | truncl NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1399 | umount2 NEW: kernel | |
1400 | unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY | |
62595351 | 1401 | updwtmpx NEW: Unix98 |
e980ca92 | 1402 | user2netname NEW: Secure RPC |
62595351 | 1403 | utmpxname NEW: Unix98 |
48244d09 | 1404 | versionsort NEW: GNU ext. |
3ef4002b | 1405 | versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext. |
48244d09 UD |
1406 | waitid NEW: Unix98 |
1407 | wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1408 | wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext. | |
1409 | wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext. | |
1410 | wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1411 | wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1412 | wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1413 | wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x | |
1414 | wcswcs NEW: Unix98 | |
1415 | wordexp NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1416 | wordfree NEW: POSIX.2 | |
1417 | write_profiling REMOVED | |
e980ca92 UD |
1418 | xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
1419 | xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC | |
1420 | xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1421 | xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1422 | xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC | |
1423 | xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1424 | xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1425 | xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC | |
1426 | xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC | |
1427 | xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC | |
1428 | xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC | |
1429 | xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC | |
1430 | xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC | |
48244d09 | 1431 | xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext |
e980ca92 | 1432 | xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC |
48244d09 | 1433 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
1770a20d UD |
1434 | \f |
1435 | Version 2.0.6 | |
1436 | ||
1437 | * more bug fixes | |
1438 | ||
a5a0310d UD |
1439 | \f |
1440 | Version 2.0.5 | |
1441 | ||
1442 | * more bug fixes | |
1443 | ||
1444 | * inet_ntoa is thread-safe | |
1445 | ||
1446 | * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc | |
1447 | ||
1448 | * rewrite of cbrt function | |
1449 | ||
1450 | * update of timezone data | |
1451 | \f | |
1452 | Version 2.0.4 | |
1453 | ||
1454 | * more bug fixes | |
1455 | \f | |
1456 | Version 2.0.3 | |
1457 | ||
1458 | * more bug fixes | |
c84142e8 | 1459 | \f |
795fbc9a UD |
1460 | Version 2.0.2 |
1461 | ||
1462 | * more bug fixes | |
1463 | ||
1464 | * add atoll function | |
1465 | ||
1466 | * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code | |
e61abf83 UD |
1467 | |
1468 | * fix math functions | |
795fbc9a UD |
1469 | \f |
1470 | Version 2.0.1 | |
1471 | ||
1472 | * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific) | |
1473 | ||
1474 | * dynamic loader preserves all registers | |
1475 | ||
1476 | * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in | |
1477 | the ELF dynamic loader. | |
1478 | ||
1479 | * support for parallel builds is improved | |
1480 | \f | |
40a4b79f | 1481 | Version 2.0 |
28f540f4 | 1482 | |
d3669add RM |
1483 | * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you |
1484 | must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with | |
1485 | `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. | |
1486 | ||
28f540f4 RM |
1487 | * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak |
1488 | symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak | |
1489 | symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There | |
1490 | is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the | |
787126fe RM |
1491 | `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and |
1492 | `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion | |
28f540f4 RM |
1493 | of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of |
1494 | the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to | |
1495 | less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. | |
dcf0671d UD |
1496 | There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on |
1497 | files in the ELF format. | |
49e522bf RM |
1498 | |
1499 | * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options. | |
1500 | Run `configure --help' to see the details. | |
1501 | ||
1502 | * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized | |
b25c5d66 RM |
1503 | (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The |
1504 | `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to | |
1505 | `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is | |
1506 | built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries | |
1507 | are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time | |
1508 | loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The | |
1509 | new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time | |
33a934a3 UD |
1510 | dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the |
1511 | application of same name on other systems and it provides information | |
1512 | about dynamically linked binaries. | |
49e522bf | 1513 | |
71733723 RM |
1514 | * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling |
1515 | executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code | |
d3669add RM |
1516 | through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by |
1517 | the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); | |
1518 | the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. | |
71733723 | 1519 | |
f7eac6eb | 1520 | * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from |
33a934a3 UD |
1521 | Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by |
1522 | Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double' | |
1523 | functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so | |
1524 | programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. | |
1525 | ||
1526 | * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions. | |
f7eac6eb | 1527 | |
5f0e6fc7 RM |
1528 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf' |
1529 | mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the | |
33a934a3 UD |
1530 | group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers, |
1531 | shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf' | |
1532 | file controls what services are used for each individual database. This | |
1533 | works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf', | |
1534 | so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even | |
1535 | relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based | |
1536 | NSS services available. | |
5f0e6fc7 | 1537 | |
49e522bf RM |
1538 | * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from |
1539 | strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and | |
1540 | `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). | |
1541 | ||
1542 | * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from | |
1543 | strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, | |
1544 | respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). | |
1545 | ||
1546 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point | |
1547 | printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and | |
1548 | `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly | |
1549 | accurate, and much faster than the old ones. | |
1550 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1551 | * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by |
1552 | Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale' | |
1553 | to compile the POSIX locale definition. | |
1554 | ||
1555 | * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are | |
1556 | now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The | |
1557 | collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions. | |
1558 | ||
49e522bf RM |
1559 | * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing |
1560 | various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). | |
1561 | ||
f7eac6eb | 1562 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on |
33a934a3 | 1563 | wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>; |
b7407d63 | 1564 | and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>. |
33a934a3 UD |
1565 | These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification. |
1566 | ||
1567 | * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available. | |
1568 | It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified | |
1569 | by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper. | |
f7eac6eb | 1570 | |
71733723 | 1571 | * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings |
49e522bf RM |
1572 | for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, |
1573 | `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints | |
1574 | ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different | |
d365fd2c RM |
1575 | format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate |
1576 | different orderings of the values being printed. To support this | |
49e522bf | 1577 | feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see |
d365fd2c | 1578 | the header file <printf.h> for details. |
49e522bf RM |
1579 | |
1580 | * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new | |
1581 | formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says | |
1582 | to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this | |
1583 | says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping | |
1584 | separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are | |
1585 | not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual | |
1586 | conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). | |
28f540f4 RM |
1587 | |
1588 | * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much | |
1589 | less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid', | |
1590 | which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no | |
1591 | argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are | |
1592 | provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp' | |
1593 | with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it. | |
1594 | ||
1595 | * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that | |
1596 | operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1597 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1598 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release. |
1599 | Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the | |
1600 | NSS scheme used in glibc. | |
28f540f4 | 1601 | |
28f540f4 RM |
1602 | * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. |
1603 | ||
1604 | * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for | |
1605 | `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and | |
1606 | their use is discouraged. | |
1607 | ||
1608 | * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now | |
1609 | done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. | |
787126fe | 1610 | |
22a1292a RM |
1611 | * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access', |
1612 | but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs. | |
49e522bf RM |
1613 | |
1614 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest | |
1615 | local time conventions of the countries of the world. | |
1616 | ||
1617 | * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream; | |
1618 | see <dirent.h>. | |
1619 | ||
1620 | * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface | |
1621 | for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for | |
33a934a3 UD |
1622 | compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are |
1623 | also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and | |
1624 | all functions also exist in a reentrant form. | |
342414a6 RM |
1625 | |
1626 | * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various | |
1627 | functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to | |
1628 | system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for | |
1629 | allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. | |
c709e372 RM |
1630 | |
1631 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style | |
1632 | shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. | |
1633 | ||
1634 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found | |
1635 | in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective | |
1636 | implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple | |
1637 | binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random | |
1638 | number generator. | |
1639 | ||
1640 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the | |
1641 | `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. | |
1642 | ||
1643 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several | |
1644 | string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. | |
1645 | ||
71733723 | 1646 | * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely |
c709e372 | 1647 | on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. |
33a934a3 UD |
1648 | The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later, |
1649 | using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux). | |
c709e372 | 1650 | |
d3669add RM |
1651 | * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). |
1652 | ||
33a934a3 UD |
1653 | * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library |
1654 | to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the | |
1655 | dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha. | |
1656 | ||
1657 | * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function | |
1658 | for arithmetic and string handling. | |
d3669add | 1659 | |
c709e372 | 1660 | * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to |
40a4b79f RM |
1661 | support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with |
1662 | his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed | |
1663 | catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean. | |
1664 | ||
1665 | * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat' | |
1666 | program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it | |
1667 | creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the | |
1668 | <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with | |
1669 | programs already written to use it.) | |
71733723 RM |
1670 | |
1671 | * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h> | |
1672 | constants. | |
1673 | ||
1674 | * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility | |
1675 | with 4.4 BSD. | |
1676 | ||
1677 | * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has | |
1678 | a given effective group ID. | |
1679 | ||
1680 | * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a | |
1681 | special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *', | |
1682 | `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic | |
1683 | `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning. | |
1684 | ||
1685 | * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient | |
6d52618b | 1686 | function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the |
71733723 RM |
1687 | canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn', |
1688 | and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for | |
1689 | doing the same thing. | |
1690 | ||
1691 | * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the | |
1692 | POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion. | |
1693 | ||
1694 | * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD. | |
33a934a3 | 1695 | `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available. |
71733723 RM |
1696 | |
1697 | * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. | |
1698 | ||
f7eac6eb RM |
1699 | * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header |
1700 | files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several | |
1701 | types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is | |
6d52618b | 1702 | an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with |
999493cb | 1703 | `-ldb' to get these functions. |
f7eac6eb RM |
1704 | |
1705 | * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack | |
1706 | space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. | |
52e9a9d1 RM |
1707 | |
1708 | * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum | |
33a934a3 UD |
1709 | number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and |
1710 | `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa' | |
1711 | function. | |
40a4b79f RM |
1712 | |
1713 | * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>. | |
1714 | ||
1715 | * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader | |
1716 | provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated | |
1717 | strings. | |
1718 | ||
1719 | * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading | |
1720 | and writing the utmp file. | |
33a934a3 UD |
1721 | |
1722 | * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by | |
1723 | Thorsten Kukuk. | |
1724 | ||
1725 | * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be | |
1726 | completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality | |
1727 | to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats. | |
1728 | ||
1729 | * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function | |
1730 | defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value. | |
1731 | ||
1732 | * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone | |
1733 | code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone | |
1734 | specification. | |
1735 | ||
1736 | * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced | |
1737 | by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger. | |
1738 | The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is | |
1739 | optimized for the use in multi threaded programs. | |
1740 | ||
1741 | * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of | |
1742 | functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special | |
1743 | salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems. | |
1744 | ||
1745 | * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper: | |
1746 | `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal' | |
1747 | to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style | |
1748 | expression matcher. | |
1749 | ||
1750 | * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this | |
1751 | functionality. | |
1752 | ||
1753 | * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed | |
1754 | by Ulrich Drepper. | |
1755 | ||
1756 | * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe. | |
1757 | ||
1758 | * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available, | |
1759 | `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an | |
1760 | implementation of `getaddrinfo'. | |
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1761 | \f |
1762 | Version 1.09 | |
1763 | ||
1764 | * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'. | |
1765 | ||
1766 | * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and | |
1767 | friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. | |
1768 | ||
1769 | * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that | |
1770 | want to put themselves in the background. | |
1771 | ||
1772 | * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that | |
1773 | run without an operating system. | |
1774 | ||
1775 | * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long | |
1776 | long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'. | |
1777 | ||
1778 | * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking | |
1779 | routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release. | |
1780 | ||
1781 | * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release. | |
1782 | ||
1783 | * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the | |
1784 | YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which | |
1785 | have YP (aka NIS). | |
1786 | ||
1787 | * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international | |
1788 | conventions. | |
1789 | ||
1790 | * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in | |
1791 | $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir). | |
1792 | \f | |
1793 | Version 1.08 | |
1794 | ||
1795 | * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free | |
1796 | RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs | |
1797 | are included. (There is still no support for YP.) | |
1798 | ||
1799 | * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running | |
1800 | Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4). | |
1801 | ||
1802 | * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking | |
1803 | facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility. | |
1804 | ||
1805 | * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility. | |
1806 | ||
1807 | * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility. | |
1808 | ||
1809 | * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for | |
1810 | compatibility. | |
1811 | ||
1812 | * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes | |
1813 | the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling | |
1814 | function (with versions of GCC that support this). | |
1815 | ||
1816 | * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>. | |
1817 | ||
1818 | * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory | |
1819 | management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and | |
1820 | `madvise', on systems that support those facilities. | |
1821 | ||
1822 | * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to | |
1823 | abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes | |
1824 | an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function | |
1825 | `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at | |
1826 | any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc' | |
1827 | on a block). | |
1828 | ||
1829 | * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one | |
1830 | system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All | |
1831 | you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the | |
1832 | native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a | |
1833 | few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the | |
1834 | cross-compiler. | |
1835 | ||
1836 | * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes | |
1837 | a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file. | |
1838 | \f | |
1839 | Version 1.07 | |
1840 | ||
1841 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha | |
1842 | running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete. | |
1843 | ||
1844 | * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix | |
1845 | to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install | |
1846 | the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever. | |
1847 | ||
1848 | * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It | |
1849 | copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the | |
1850 | address of the last character written. | |
1851 | ||
1852 | * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is | |
1853 | compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you. | |
1854 | ||
1855 | * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the | |
1856 | stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor. | |
1857 | ||
1858 | * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it | |
1859 | allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which | |
1860 | you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if | |
1861 | you dereference this pointer. | |
1862 | ||
1863 | * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either | |
1864 | NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4. | |
1865 | ||
1866 | * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function | |
1867 | for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix | |
1868 | systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as | |
1869 | `pipe', `fork' and `getppid'). | |
1870 | ||
1871 | * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined | |
1872 | to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels | |
1873 | use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to | |
1874 | EAGAIN in every system call function. | |
1875 | \f | |
1876 | Version 1.06 | |
1877 | ||
1878 | * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library. | |
1879 | `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual. | |
1880 | `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i | |
1881 | in Emacs or the `info' program. | |
ea278354 | 1882 | Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org. |
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1883 | |
1884 | * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4). | |
1885 | ||
1886 | * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2. | |
1887 | ||
1888 | * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running | |
1889 | Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix). | |
1890 | ||
1891 | * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO | |
1892 | ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2). | |
1893 | ||
1894 | * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when | |
1895 | malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you. | |
1896 | ||
1897 | * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for | |
1898 | its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation | |
1899 | overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it | |
1900 | needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a | |
1901 | pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **'). | |
1902 | ||
1903 | * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding | |
1904 | to the error code in `errno'. | |
1905 | ||
1906 | * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s' | |
1907 | or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you | |
1908 | pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a | |
1909 | malloc'd string. | |
1910 | ||
1911 | * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and | |
1912 | `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a | |
1913 | name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching. | |
1914 | ||
1915 | * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a | |
1916 | uniquely-named temporary file. | |
1917 | \f | |
1918 | Version 1.05 | |
1919 | ||
1920 | * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is | |
1921 | has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more | |
1922 | precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'. | |
1923 | ||
1924 | * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14 | |
1925 | characters. | |
1926 | ||
1927 | * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE. | |
1928 | These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'. | |
1929 | ||
1930 | * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD. | |
1931 | \f | |
1932 | Version 1.04 | |
1933 | ||
1934 | * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure' | |
1935 | script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU | |
1936 | packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged. | |
1937 | The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail. | |
1938 | ||
1939 | * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and | |
1940 | traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and | |
1941 | it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional'). | |
1942 | ||
1943 | * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the | |
1944 | MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4. | |
1945 | ||
1946 | * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries. | |
1947 | Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be | |
1948 | made itself into a shared library. | |
1949 | ||
1950 | * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems | |
1951 | (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V. | |
1952 | ||
1953 | * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison | |
1954 | with limited length. | |
1955 | ||
1956 | * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'. | |
1957 | ||
1958 | * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories. | |
1959 | ||
1960 | * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'. | |
1961 | ||
1962 | * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw' | |
1963 | function for traversing a directory tree. | |
1964 | ||
1965 | * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library. | |
1966 | The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that | |
1967 | writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do | |
1968 | formatted output directly to an obstack. | |
1969 | ||
1970 | * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only), | |
1971 | cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid. | |
1972 | ||
1973 | * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'. | |
1974 | ||
1975 | * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful | |
1976 | things to your strings. | |
1977 | ||
1978 | * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand. | |
1979 | ||
1980 | * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux. | |
1981 | These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really | |
1982 | supporting those systems. | |
1983 | ||
1984 | * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what | |
1985 | the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'. | |
1986 | This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local | |
1987 | configuration files. | |
1988 | ||
1989 | * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++ | |
1990 | compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code. | |
1991 | ||
1992 | * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy, | |
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1993 | bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared |
1994 | in <strings.h>.) | |
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1995 | |
1996 | * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting | |
1997 | function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be | |
1998 | significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is | |
1999 | now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot | |
2000 | of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the | |
2001 | required storage is not available. | |
2002 | ||
2003 | * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which | |
2004 | provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. | |
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2005 | |
2006 | * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the | |
2007 | latest files released from Berkeley. | |
2008 | \f | |
2009 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
2010 | Copyright information: | |
2011 | ||
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2014 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies | |
2015 | of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the | |
2016 | copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, | |
2017 | thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. | |
2018 | ||
2019 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions | |
2020 | of this document, or of portions of it, | |
2021 | under the above conditions, provided also that they | |
2022 | carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. | |
2023 | \f | |
2024 | Local variables: | |
2025 | version-control: never | |
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