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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
13 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
14 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
15 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
16 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
17 configured location.
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424c4f60 19* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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21* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
22 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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24* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
25 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
26 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
27 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
28 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
29 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
30 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
31 process actually does not use HTM).
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33* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np function has been added,
34 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a
35 different directory. This is a GNU extension and similar to the
36 Solaris function of the same name.
37
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38Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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40* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
41 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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43* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
44 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
45 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
46 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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48* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
49 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
50 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
51 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
52 structures.
53
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54Changes to build and runtime requirements:
55
c6982f7e 56* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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58Security related changes:
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60 [Add security related changes here]
61
62The following bugs are resolved with this release:
63
64 [The release manager will add the list generated by
65 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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68Version 2.28
69
70Major new features:
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72* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
73 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
74 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
75 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
76 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
77 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
78 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
79 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
80 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
81 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
82 archive or binary locales.
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84* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
85 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
86 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
87 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
88 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
89 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
90 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
91 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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92 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
93 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
94 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
95 validated for i686.
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97* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
98 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
99 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
100 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
101 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
102 field) to indicate such support is required.
103
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104* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
105 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
106 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
107
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108* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
109 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
110
111 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
112 fMxaddfNx functions.
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114 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
115 fMxsubfNx functions.
116
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117 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
118 fMxmulfNx functions.
119
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120 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
121 fMxdivfNx functions.
122
e607a352 123* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 124 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 125 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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126 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
127 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 129* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 130 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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132* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
133 patches.
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135* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
136 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
137 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
138 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
139 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
140 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
141 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
142 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
143
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144* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
145 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
146 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
147 the fstatat64 function.
148
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149* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
150 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
151 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
152 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
153 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
154 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
155 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
156 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
157 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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159* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
160 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
161 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
162 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
163 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
164 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
165 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
166 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
167 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
168 results in a load failure now.
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170* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
171 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
172 <threads.h>:
173
174 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
175 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
176
177 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
178 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
179
180 - call_once for function call synchronization.
181
182 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
183 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
184
185 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
186
187 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
188
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189Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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191* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
192 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
193 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
194
195* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
196 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
197 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
198 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
199 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
200 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
201
202* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
203 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
204 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
205 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
206 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
207 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
208 (Bug #1190.)
209
210* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
211 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
212 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
213 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
214 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
215 further explanation.
216
217 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
218 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
219 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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221* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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223* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
224 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
225 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
226
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227* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
228 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
229 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
230 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
231
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232* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
233 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
234 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
235 for this function instead.
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237* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
238 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
239 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
240
241* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
242 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
243 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
244 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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246* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
247 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
248 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
249 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
250 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
251
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252* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
253 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
254 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
255 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
256 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
257 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
258 such as libgcrypt.
259
260* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
261 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
262 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
263 enabled.
264
265* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
266 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
267 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
268
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269* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
270 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
271 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
272 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
273 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
274 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
275
276 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
277 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
278 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
279 behavior in a future release.
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281Changes to build and runtime requirements:
282
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285Security related changes:
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287 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
288 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
289 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
290 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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292 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
293 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
294
295 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
296 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
297 Izbyshev.
298
299 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
300 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
301 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
302
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305 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
306 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
307 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
308 when __WORDSIZE != 64
309 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
310 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
311 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
312 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
313 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
314 14651
315 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
316 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
317 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
318 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
319 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
320 conversion is given
321 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
322 date
323 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
324 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
325 scope with -O1 and higher
326 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
327 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
328 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
329 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
330 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
331 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
332 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
333 horrible machine code)
334 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
335 last constant.
336 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
337 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
338 symbols
339 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
340 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
341 defined
342 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
343 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
344 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
345 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
346 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
347 fpscr.c'
348 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
349 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
350 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
351 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
352 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
353 the base address
354 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
355 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
356 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
357 open_verify
358 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
359 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
360 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
361 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
362 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
363 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
364 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
365 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
366 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
367 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
368 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
369 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
370 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
371 dlopen
372 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
373 AT_SECURE=1
374 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
375 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
376 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
377 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
378 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
379 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
380 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
381 for Spanish with CLDR
382 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
383 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
384 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
385 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
386 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
387 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
388 es_BO
389 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
390 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
391 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
392 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
393 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
394 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
395 dlopen failures
396 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
397 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
398 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
399 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
400 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
401 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
402 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
403 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
404 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
405 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
406 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
407 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
408 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
409 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
410 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
411 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
412 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
413 makecontext
414 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
415 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
416 required
417 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
418 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
419 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
420 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
421 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
422 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
423 disabled
424 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
425 failure
426 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
427 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
428 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
429 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
430 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
431 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
432 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
433 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
434 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
435 and libc build with -Os)
436 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
437 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
438 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
439 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
440 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
441 that changes /etc/passwd
442 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
443 (CVE-2018-11237)
444 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
445 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
446 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
447 posix/regcomp.c
448 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
449 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
450 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
451 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
452 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
453 AT_SECURE
454 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
455 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
456 parser.c
457 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
458 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
459 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
460 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
461 directed rounding
462 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
463 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
464 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
465 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
466 lookup
467 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
468 interposition
469 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
470 DSO boundaries.
471 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
472 <linux/time.h>
473 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
474 checking
475 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
476 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
477 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
478 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
479 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
480 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
481 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
482 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
483 processors
484 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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487Version 2.27
488
489Major new features:
490
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492 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 493 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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494 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
495 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
496 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
497 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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498 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
499 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 500
ac817e08 501* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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502 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
503 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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505* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
506
4cf82d23 507* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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509* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
510 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
511 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
512 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
513 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
514 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
515 from a security and performance perspective.
516
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517* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
518 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
519 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
520 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
521
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524 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
525 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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526 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
527
a23aa5b7 528* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 529 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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530 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
531 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
532 _Float128.
533
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534* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
535 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
536 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 537
4bab0224 538* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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540* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
541 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
542 pkey_get.
543
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544* The copy_file_range function was added.
545
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546* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
547
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548* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
549 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
550 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
551
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553 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
554 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
555 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
556 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
557 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
558 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
559
560 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
561 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
562 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
563 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
564 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
565 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
566 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
567
568 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
569 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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571 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
572 respectively.
573
574 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
575 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
576 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
577 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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579 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
580 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
581 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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584 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 585 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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588 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
589 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
590
591 - rv64imac lp64
592 - rv64imafdc lp64
593 - rv64imafdc lp64d
594
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596
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597* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
598 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 599 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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600 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
601 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
602 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
603 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
604 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
605 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
606 fix this.
607
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608* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
609 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
610 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
611
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612* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
613 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
614 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
615 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
616 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
617 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
618 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
619 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
620 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
621 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
622 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
623 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
624 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
625 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
626 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
627 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
628 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
629 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
630 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
631 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
632 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
633 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
634 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
635 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
636 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
637 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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640 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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643 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
644 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
645 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
646 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
647 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
648 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
649
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650* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
651 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
652 exp10l for these functions instead.
653
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654* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
655 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
656 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
657
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658* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
659 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
660 ignored.
661
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662* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
663 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
664 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
665 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
666
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667* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
668 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
669
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670* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
671 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
672
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673* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
674 programs.
675
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676* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
677
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678* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
679 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
680 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
681 instead.
682
683 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
684 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
685 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
686 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
687 use, but predates the bits convention.
688
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690
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691* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
692 subdirectory.
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694Security related changes:
695
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696 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
697 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
698 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
699 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
700 script.)
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702 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
703 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
704 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
705 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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707 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
708 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
709 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
710 of service.
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713 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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714 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
715
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716 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
717 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
718 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
719 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
720
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721 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
722 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
723 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
724 Qualys.
725
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726 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
727 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
728 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
729 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
730 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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732 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
733 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
734 current directory.
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736 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
737 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
738 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
739
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740 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
741 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
742 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
743
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744 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
745 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
746 small, instead of NULL.
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750 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
751 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
752 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
753 locale
754 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
755 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
756 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
757 cases
758 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
759 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
760 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
761 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
762 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
763 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
764 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
765 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
766 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
767 "Bangla"
768 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
769 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
770 width Latin characters
771 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
772 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
773 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
774 letters
775 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
776 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
777 (CVE-2009-5064)
778 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
779 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
780 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
781 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
782 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
783 if malloc succeeded
784 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
785 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
786 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
787 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
788 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
789 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
790 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
791 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
792 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
793 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
794 U+309A
795 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
796 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
797 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
798 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
799 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
800 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
801 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
802 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
803 for Nicaragua
804 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
805 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
806 are not found.
807 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
808 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
809 access
810 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
811 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
812 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
813 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
814 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
815 __regcall calling convention
816 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
817 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
818 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
819 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
820 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
821 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
822 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
823 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
824 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
825 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
826 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
827 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
828 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
829 locale
830 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
831 protector=all
832 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
833 wcwidth
834 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
835 consistency check failures
836 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
837 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
838 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
839 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
840 PIE
841 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
842 locales
843 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
844 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
845 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
846 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
847 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
848 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
849 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
850 on memory allocation failure
851 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
852 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
853 the suspect)
854 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
855 default (i386)
856 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
857 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
858 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
859 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
860 instead of EAI_NODATA
861 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
862 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
863 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
864 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
865 implementation
866 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
867 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
868 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
869 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
870 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
871 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
872 allocation in syscall loops)
873 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
874 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
875 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
876 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
877 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
878 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
879 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
880 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
881 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
882 occur with -O3
883 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
884 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
885 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
886 amounts)
887 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
888 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
889 niu_NZ
890 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
891 checks
892 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
893 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
894 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
895 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
896 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
897 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
898 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
899 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
900 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
901 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
902 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
903 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
904 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
905 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
906 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
907 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
908 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
909 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
910 parsing after OOM
911 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
912 object
913 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
914 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
915 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
916 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
917 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
918 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
919 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
920 ppc64le
921 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
922 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
923 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
924 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
925 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
926 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
927 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
928 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
929 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
930 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
931 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
932 math_force_eval
933 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
934 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
935 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
936 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
937 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
938 the svid compat wrapper
939 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
940 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
941 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
942 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
943 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
944 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
945 --verbose.
946 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
947 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
948 to 2.26
949 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
950 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
951 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
952 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
953 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
954 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
955 (CVE-2017-15804)
956 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
957 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
958 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
959 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
960 failure."
961 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
962 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
963 -m32
964 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
965 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
966 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
967 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
968 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
969 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
970 inside the ASCII printable range
971 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
972 -mlong-double-64
973 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
974 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
975 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
976 Internet
977 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
978 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
979 backslash
980 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
981 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
982 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
983 heaps in an arena
984 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
985 networking interface
986 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
987 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
988 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
989 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
990 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
991 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
992 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
993 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
994 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
995 order
996 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
997 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
998 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
999 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1000 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1001 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1002 same as for Croatian
1003 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1004 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1005 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1006 for initial thread"
1007 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1008 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1009 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1010 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1011 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1012 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1013 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1014 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1015 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1016 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1017 modified in case of success
1018 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1019 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1020 success
1021 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1022 stack-protector=all
1023 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1024 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1025 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1026 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1027 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1028 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1029 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1030 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1031 adding it on top
1032 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1033 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1034 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1035 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1036 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1037 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1038 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1039 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1040 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1041 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1042 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1043 elision and tunables
1044 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1045 "invalid" exception
1046 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1047 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1048 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1049 exception
1050 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1051 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1052 power4
1053 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1054 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1055 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1056 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1057 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1058 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1059 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1060 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1061 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1064Version 2.26
1065
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1066Major new features:
1067
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1068* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1069 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1070 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1071 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1072 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1073 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1074 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1075
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1076* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1077 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1078 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1079 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1080 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1081 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1082 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1084* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1085 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1086 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1087
2b2ccd0c 1088* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1090 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1091 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1092 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1094 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1095 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1096 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1097 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1098 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1100 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1101 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1102 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1104* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1105 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1107* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1108 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1109 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1110 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1112* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1113 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1114 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1115 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1117* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1118 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1119 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1120 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1122* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1123 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1124 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1125
2b2ccd0c 1126* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1127 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1128 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1129 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 1131 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1132 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1133 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1134 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1135 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1136
1137 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1138 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1139 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1140 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1141 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1142 interfaces should be used instead.
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1144Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1145
1146* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1147 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1148 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1149 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1150 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1151 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1152 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1153 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1154
1155* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1156 removed.
1157
1158* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1159 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1160 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1161 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1162
1163* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1164 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1165 default.
1166
1167 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1168 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1169 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1170 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1171 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1173 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1174 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1175 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1176 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1177
1178* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1179 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1180 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1181 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1182
1183* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1184 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1186* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1187 exported by accident.
1188
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1189* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1190 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1191 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1192
1193* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1194 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1195 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1196 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1197
1198* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1199
1200* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1201
1202* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1203 free instead.
1204
1205* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1206 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1207
1208* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1209 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1210
1211* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1212 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1213 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1214 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1215 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1216 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1217 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1218 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1219
1220* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1221 synced with the kernel:
1222
1223 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1224 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1225
1226 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1227 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1228 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1229
1230 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1231 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1232
1233Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1234
1235* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1236 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1237 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1238
7e368000 1239* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1242 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1244 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1245 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1246 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1247 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1248 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1251
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1253 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1254
1255* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1256 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1257
1258* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1259 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1260 (CVE-2010-3192).
1261
1262* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1263 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1265The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1267 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1268 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1269 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1270 fields
1271 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1272 (CVE-2010-3192)
1273 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1274 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1275 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1276 ld.bfd is available
1277 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1278 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1279 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1280 x86 and other generic code
1281 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1282 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1283 incorrect
1284 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1285 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1286 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1287 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1288 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1289 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1290 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1291 resolver
1292 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1293 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1294 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1295 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1296 chillu characters
1297 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1298 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1299 receiving data
1300 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1301 whitespace
1302 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1303 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1304 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1305 for Peru
1306 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1307 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1308 failures consistently
1309 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1310 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1311 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1312 frame-pointer on i386
1313 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1314 register
1315 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1316 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1317 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1318 generic c code is used
1319 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1320 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1321 around 4000
1322 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1323 (CVE-2017-12133)
1324 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1325 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1326 with -lieee
1327 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1328 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1329 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1330 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1331 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1332 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1333 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1334 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1335 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1336 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1337 remove()
1338 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1339 checked for errors.
1340 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1341 new posix_spawn implementation
1342 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1343 leads to lower CPU frequency
1344 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1345 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1346 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1347 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1348 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1349 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1350 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1351 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1352 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1353 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1354 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1355 not support gethostbyname4_r
1356 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1357 switching
1358 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1359 arenas
1360 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1361 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1362 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1363 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1364 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1365 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1366 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1367 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1368 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1369 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1370 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1371 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1372 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1373 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1374 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1375 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1376 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1377 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1378 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1379 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1380 retry value
1381 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1382 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1383 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1384 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1385 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1386 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1387 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1388 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1389 [21537] libc:
1390 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1391 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1392 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1393 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1394 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1395 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1396 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1397 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1398 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1399 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1400 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1401 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1402 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1403 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1404 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1405 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1406 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1407 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1408 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1409 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1410 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1411 issue on x86-64
1412 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1413 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1414 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1415 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1416 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1417 construction
1418 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1419 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1420 between_2_3
1421 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1422 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1423 conditions
1424 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1425 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1426 Hindi Locale
1427 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1428 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1429 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1430 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1431 locale
1432 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1433 leading to relocation crash
1434 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1435 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1436 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1437 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1438 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1439 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1440 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1441 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1442 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1443 locale
1444 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1445 locale
1446 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1447 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1448 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1449 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1450 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1451 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1452 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1453 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1454 strings
1455 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1456 protector=all
1457 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1458 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1459 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1460 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1461 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1462 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1463 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1464 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1465 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1466 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1467 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1468 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1469 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1470 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1471 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1472 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1473 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1474 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1475 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1476 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1477 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1478 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1479 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1480 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1481 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1482 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1483 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1484 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1485 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1486 with unicode 9.0
1487 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1488 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1489 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1490 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1491 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1495
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1496* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1497 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1498 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1499 Library.
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1501* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1502 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1503 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1504 the GNU C Library.
1505
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1506* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1507 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1508 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1509 the GNU C Library.
1510
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1511* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1512 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1513 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1514 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1515 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1516 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1517 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1518 will not.
1519
1520 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1521 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1522 many years.
1523
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1524* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1525 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1526 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1527
1528 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1529 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1530 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1531 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1532 problem.
1533
ec94343f 1534* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1535 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1536 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1538* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1539 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1540 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1541 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1542 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1543 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1544 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1545 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1546 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1547 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1548 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1549 WINT_WIDTH.
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1551* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1552
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1553 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1554
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1555 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1556 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1557 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1558
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1559 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1560 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1561
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1562 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1563 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1564
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1565 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1566
29cb9293 1567 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1568
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1569 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1570 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1571
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1572 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1573
eb3c12c7 1574 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1575 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1576
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1577* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1578 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1579
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1580* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1581 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1582 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1583
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1584* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1585 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1586 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1587 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1588 effects of the memory clear).
1589
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1590* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1591 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1592 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1593 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1594
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1595* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1596 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1597 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1598 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1599 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1600 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1602* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1603 have been added.
1604
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1605* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1606 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1607 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1608 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1609 as large as several megabytes.
1610
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1611* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1612 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1613 been removed.
1614
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1615* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1616 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1617 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1618 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1619 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1620 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1621 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1622
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1623* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1624 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1625 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1626 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1627
099191b1 1628* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1629 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1630 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1631 Internet.
1632
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1633* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1634 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1635 They were already unimplemented.
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1637* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1638 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1639 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1640 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1641
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1642* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1643 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1644 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1645 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1646 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1647
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1648* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1649 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1650 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1651 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1652 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1653
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1654* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1655 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1656 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1657 did not reflect that.
1658
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1659* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1660 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1661 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1662 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1663 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1664 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1665 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1666 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1667
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1668* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1669 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1670 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1671 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1672
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1673* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1674 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1675 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1676 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1677
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1678* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1679 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1680 guarantees.
1681
1682* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1683 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1684 make state changes.
1685
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1686Security related changes:
1687
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1689 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1690 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1691 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1692 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1694* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1695 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1696 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1697 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1698 (CVE-2015-5180)
1699
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1700The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1701
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1702 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1703 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1704 protector-all
1705 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1706 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1707 before it started waiting
1708 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1709 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1710 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1711 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1712 wrong type
1713 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1714 library linked with pthread
1715 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1716 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1717 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1718 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1719 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1720 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1721 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1722 when it shouldnt
1723 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1724 not
1725 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1726 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1727 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1728 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1729 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1730 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1731 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1732 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1733 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1734 termination
1735 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1736 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1737 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1738 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1739 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1740 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1741 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1742 causes a segmentation fault
1743 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1744 linking
1745 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1746 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1747 uninitialized GOT
1748 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1749 versions
1750 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1751 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1752 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1753 is always true.
1754 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1755 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1756 modes
1757 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1758 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1759 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1760 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1761 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1762 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1763 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1764 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1765 libpthread.a
1766 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1767 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1768 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1769 _res_hconf
1770 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1771 information.
1772 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1773 penalty
1774 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1775 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1776 cause transition penalty
1777 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1778 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1779 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1780 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1781 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1782 mcount.oS)
1783 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1784 Checking
1785 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1786 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1787 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1788 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1789 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1790 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1791 multi-arch
1792 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1793 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1794 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1795 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1796 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1797 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1798 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1799 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1800 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1801 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1802 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1803 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1804 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1805 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1806 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1807 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1808 glibc
1809 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1810 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1811 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1812 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1813 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1814 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1815 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1816 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1817 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1818 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1819 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1820 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1821 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1822 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1823 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1824 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1825 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1826 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1827 RES_USE_INET6
1828 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1829 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1830 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1831 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1832 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1833 wrong condition
1834 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1835 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1836 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1837 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1838 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1839 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1840 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1841 clang
1842 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1843 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1844 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1845 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1846 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1850* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1851 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1852 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1853 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1854 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1855 architectures.
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1857* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1858 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1859 been included in previous releases.
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1861* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1862 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1863
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1864* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1865 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1866 instead of “union wait”.
1867
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1868* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1869 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1870 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1871 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1872 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1873 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1874 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1875
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1876* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1877 API.
1878
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1879* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1880 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1881 drop it.
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1883* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1884 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1885 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1886 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1887 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1888 extensions.
1889
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1891
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1892* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1893 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1894 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1895
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1896* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1897 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1898 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1899 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1901* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1902 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1903 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1904
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1905* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1906 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1907 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1908
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1909* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1910 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1911 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1912 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1916 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1917 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1918 of MS-DOS.
1919 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1920 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1921 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1922 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1923 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1924 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1925 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1926 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1927 CLDR data
1928 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1929 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1930 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1931 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1932 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1933 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1934 romanisation
1935 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1936 and +/-
1937 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1938 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1939 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1940 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1941 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1942 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1943 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1944 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1945 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1946 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1947 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1948 all locales
1949 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1950 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1951 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1952 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1953 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1954 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1955 execute
1956 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1957 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1958 -Wsystem-headers
1959 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1960 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1961 Romanian locale data
1962 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1963 symbol
1964 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1965 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1966 language
1967 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1968 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1969 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1970 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1971 machine
1972 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1973 description
1974 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1975 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1976 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1977 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1978 when using RTLD_NEXT
1979 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1980 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1981 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1982 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1983 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1984 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1985 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1986 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1987 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1988 Excavator core
1989 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1990 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1991 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1992 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1993 double range
1994 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1995 part zero incorrect
1996 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1997 equality tests
1998 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1999 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2000 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2001 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2002 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2003 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2004 glibc-2.22
2005 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2006 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2007 'tst-numeric.c'
2008 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2009 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2010 low part
2011 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2012 result
2013 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2014 unaligned stack
2015 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2016 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2017 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2018 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2019 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2020 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2021 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2022 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2023 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2024 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2025 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2026 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2027 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2028 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2029 modes
2030 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2031 server addresses
2032 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2033 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2034 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2035 response to getaddrinfo
2036 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2037 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2038 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2039 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2040 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2041 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2042 sometimes incorrect
2043 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2044 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2045 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2046 record types
2047 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2048 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2049 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2050 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2051 (CVE-2016-3075)
2052 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2053 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2054 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2055 resolving symbols
2056 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2057 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2058 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2059 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2060 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2061 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2062 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2063 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2064 gethosts
2065 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2066 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2067 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2068 (CVE-2016-3706)
2069 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2070 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2071 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2072 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2073 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2074 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2075 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2076 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2077 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2078 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2079 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2080 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2081 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2082 executable
2083 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2084 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2085 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2086 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2087 XPG3
2088 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2089 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2090 (CVE-2016-4429)
2091 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2092 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2093 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2094 AS not supporting AVX512
2095 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2096 sNaN argument
2097 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2098 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2099 argument
2100 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2101 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2102 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2103 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2104 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2105 eax=0x80000001
2106 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2107 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2108 subnormals
2109 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2110 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2111 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2112 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2113 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2114 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2115 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2116 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2117 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2118 input
2119 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2120 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2121 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2122 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2123 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2124 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2125 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2126 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2127 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2128 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2129 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2130 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2131 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2132 double rounding
2133 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2134 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2135 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2136 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2137 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2138 (Only arm/linux)
2139 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2140 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2141 fallbacks
2142 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2143 "invalid" exceptions
2144 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2145 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2146 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2147 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2148 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2149 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2150 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2151 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2152 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2156* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2157 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2158 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2159 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2160 89, 16061, and 18568.
2161
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2162* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2163 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2164 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2165 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2166 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2167 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2168 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2169
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2170* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2171 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2172 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2173
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2174* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2175 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2176 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2177 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2178 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2179 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2180 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2181
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2182* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2183 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2184 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2185 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2186 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2187 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2188 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2189 Ericsson.)
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2191* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2192 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2193 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2194 independent of the GNU C Library.
2195
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2196* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2197 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2199* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2200 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2201 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2202 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2203 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2204 Linux kernel.
2205
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2206* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2207 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2209* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2210 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2211 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2212 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2213 defining their own copy.
2214
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2215* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2216 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2217 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2219Security related changes:
2220
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2221* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2222 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2223
2224* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2225 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2226 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2227 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2228 (CVE-2015-8777)
2229
2230* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2231 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2232
2233* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2234 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2235
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2236* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2237 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2238 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2240* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2241 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2242 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2243 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2244 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2245 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2246 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2247 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2248 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2249 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2250 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2251 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2252 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2253
ad372e29 2254The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2256 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2257 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2258 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2259 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2260 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2261 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2262 use `mkstemp'
2263 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2264 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2265 overflow/underflow errors
2266 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2267 overflow/underflow
2268 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2269 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2270 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2271 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2272 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2273 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2274 are not contiguous
2275 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2276 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2277 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2278 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2279 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2280 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2281 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2282 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2283 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2284 all exceptions
2285 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2286 arguments
2287 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2288 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2289 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2290 should include
2291 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2292 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2293 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2294 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2295 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2296 GNU/Linux
2297 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2298 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2299 arguments
2300 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2301 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2302 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2303 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2304 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2305 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2306 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2307 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2308 rounding results
2309 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2310 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2311 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2312 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2313 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2314 fails
2315 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2316 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2317 block boundary
2318 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2319 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2320 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2321 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2322 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2323 4.7?
2324 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2325 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2326 (related to lock elision)
2327 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2328 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2329 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2330 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2331 (CVE-2015-8779)
2332 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2333 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2334 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2335 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2336 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2337 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2338 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2339 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2340 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2341 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2342 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2343 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2344 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2345 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2346 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2347 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2348 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2349 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2350 contains a vector instruction exception.
2351 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2352 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2353 locales
2354 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2355 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2356 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2357 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2358 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2359 missing break ?
2360 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2361 32bit processes
2362 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2363 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2364 infinity
2365 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2366 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2367 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2368 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2369 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2370 be forced unloaded
2371 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2372 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2373 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2374 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2375 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2376 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2377 statically too large
2378 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2379 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2380 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2381 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2382 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2383 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2384 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2385 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2386 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2387 FUTEX_SHARED
2388 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2389 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2390 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2391 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2392 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2393 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2394 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2395 opendir()
2396 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2397 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2398 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2399 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2400 signgam
2401 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2402 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2403 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2404 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2405 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2406 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2407 dependencies
2408 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2409 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2410 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2411 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2412 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2413 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2414 (CVE-2015-8776)
2415 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2416 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2417 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2418 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2419 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2420 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2421 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2422 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2423 contention
2424 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2425 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2426 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2427 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2428 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2429 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2430 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2431 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2432 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2433 rounding modes
2434 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2435 ILP32
2436 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2437 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2438 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2439 threshold
2440 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2441 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2442 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2443 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2444 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2445 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2446 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2447 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2448 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2449 pthread_setaffinity_np
2450 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2451 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2452 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2453 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2454 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2455 prelink
2456 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2457 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2458 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2459 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2460 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2461 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2462 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2463 bits/mathcalls.h
2464 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2465 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2466 for C99-based standards
2467 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2468 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2469 math-only
2470 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2471 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2472 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2473 disabled
2474 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2475 "inexact" exceptions
2476 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2477 arguments
2478 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2479 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2480 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2481 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2482 rules
2483 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2484 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2485 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2486 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2487 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2488 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2489 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2490 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2491 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2492 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2493 from 32bit
2494 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2495 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2496 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2497 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2498 subnormals
2499 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2500 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2501 error on 32-bit architectures
2502 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2503 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2504 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2505 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2506 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2507 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2508 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2509 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2510 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2511 -Os
2512 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2513 CPU's.
2514 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2515 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2516 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2517 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2518 architectures
2519 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2521Version 2.22
2522
2523* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2524
3df5cd98 2525 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2526 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2527 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2528 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2529 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2530 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2531 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2532 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2533 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2534 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2535 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2536 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2537 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2538 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2539 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2540 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2541 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2542 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2543 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2544 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2546* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2547 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2548
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2549* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2550 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2551 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2552 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2553 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2554 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2555
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2556* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2557 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2558 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2559 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2560 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2561
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2562* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2563 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2564 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2565
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2566* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2567 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2568 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2569 17998.
2570
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2571* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2572 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2573 condition in some applications.
21933112
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2574
2575* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2576 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2577 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2578 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2579 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2580 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2581 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2582 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2583
2584* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2585 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2586 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2587 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2588
2589* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2590 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2591 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2592
2593* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2594 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2595
2596* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2597 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2598 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2599
a03ba363 2600 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2601 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2602 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2603\f
58b930ae
SP
2604Version 2.21
2605
2606* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2607
042e1521 2608 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2609 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2610 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2611 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2612 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2613 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2614 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2615 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2616 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2617 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2618 17892.
2619
46d54873
FW
2620* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2621 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2622 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2623 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2624 intended.
042e1521
CD
2625
2626* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2627 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2628 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2629 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2630 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2631 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2632
522e6ee3
CLT
2633* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2634
d3b00f46
AZ
2635* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2636 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2637 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2638
8d2c0a59
AZ
2639* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2640 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2641 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2642 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2643 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2644 effects being visible outside transactions.
2645
dc400d7b
RE
2646* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2647 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2648
0f9dfe04
L
2649* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2650
a39208bd
CD
2651* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2652 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2653 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2654 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2655 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2656
a5357b7c
JL
2657* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2658 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2659
e54db0ea
AM
2660* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2661 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2662 format.
11e3417a 2663
4863355a
JM
2664* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2665 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2666 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2667
a4ecc9eb
JM
2668* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2669 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2670
0d560bbf 2671* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2672
2673* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2674 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2675 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2676 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2677
2678* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2679 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2680
2681* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2682 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2683 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2684 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2685 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2686 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2687 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2688 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2689 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2690 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2691 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2692 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2693 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2694
2695 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2696 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2697 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2698 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2699 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2700\f
d5b396c1
AM
2701Version 2.20
2702
2703* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2704
6a9350c8
JM
2705 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2706 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2707 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2708 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2709 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2710 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2711 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2712 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2713 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2714 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2715 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2716 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2717 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2718 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2719 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2720
95ee7fb1
SL
2721* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2722 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2723 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2724 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2725 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2726 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2727 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2728 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2729 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2730 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2731
0961f7e1
JL
2732* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2733 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2734 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2735 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2736 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2737
f940b965
RE
2738* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2739
d0f5b3f8
JM
2740* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2741 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2742
d6fe5e58
JM
2743* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2744 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2745 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2746 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2747 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2748 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2749
464263cc
JM
2750* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2751 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2752
2753* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2754 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2755 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2756 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2757 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2758 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2759 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2760
2761* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2762
2763* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2764 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2765 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2766 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2767 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2768 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2769 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2770
2771* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2772 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2773 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2774 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2775 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2776
2777* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2778 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2779 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2780
2781* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2782 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2783 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2784 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2785
2786* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2787 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2788 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2789 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2790 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2791 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2792 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2793 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2794
2795* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2796 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2797 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2798 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2799 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2800 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2801 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2802 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2803 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2804
2805* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2806 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2807 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2808 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2809 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2810 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2811
2812* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2813 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2814 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2815 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2816\f
2817Version 2.19
2818
2819* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2820
fd2f9486
JM
2821 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2822 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2823 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2824 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2825 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2826 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2827 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2828 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2829 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2830 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2831 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2832 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2833 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2834 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2835 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2836 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2837 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2838 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2839
11520a57
CD
2840* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2841 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2842
2fe16229
CD
2843* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2844 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2845 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2846 extension which uses __block.
2847
303e567a
SP
2848* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2849 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2850 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2851 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2852 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2853
141f3a77
SP
2854* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2855 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2856 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2857 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2858 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2859
2860* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2861 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2862 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2863 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2864 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2865
2866* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2867 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2868 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2869
ba0d798c
WN
2870* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2871 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2872 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2873 #15856, #15857).
2874
7cbcdb36
SP
2875* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2876 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2877
82bab04b 2878* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2879 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2880
c5f840fd
MB
2881* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2882
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CD
2883* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2884 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2885
3e181dda 2886* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2887
8a05c252
CL
2888* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2889
6055173a
JM
2890* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2891 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2892 for which the C library was built.
2893
b125d3e5
JM
2894* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2895 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2896 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2897 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2898 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2899 in the following circumstances:
2900
2901 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2902
2903 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2904 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2905
d4f66d37
JM
2906* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2907 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2908
3e181dda
CD
2909* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2910 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2911
ffb89e53
AO
2912* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2913
5d29ccce
SP
2914* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2915 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2916
8b7d57cd 2917* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2918
2919* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2920
fd712ef3 2921* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2922
c688b419
JM
2923* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2924 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2925 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2926 disable some of those declarations.
2927
7011c262 2928* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2929 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2930 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2931
2932* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2933 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2934
2935* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2936 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2937 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2938 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2939 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2940 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2941 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2942 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2943 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2944 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2945 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2946 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2947 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2948\f
2949Version 2.18
2950
2951* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2952
17db6e8d 2953 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2954 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2955 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2956 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2957 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2958 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2959 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2960 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2961 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2962 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2963 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2964 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2965 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2966 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
2967
2968* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2969 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2970 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2971 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2972 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2973 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2974
5b535ac4
AS
2975* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2976 #15078).
2977
1cef1b19
AS
2978* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2979 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2980
55e4107b
SP
2981* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2982 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2983 destructor calls to glibc.
2984
e5c74c63
SP
2985* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2986 output.
2987
2988* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2989 non-x86 architectures.
2990
e7521973
JM
2991* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2992
2993* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2994
2995* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2996 Richard Henderson.
2997
2998* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2999
3000* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3001 Richard Henderson.
3002
3003* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3004 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3005
8cfdb7e0
SP
3006* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3007
57267616
TS
3008* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3009 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3010
c204ab28
SP
3011* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3012 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3013
0748546f
PE
3014* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3015 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3016 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3017
61dd6208
SP
3018* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3019 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3020 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3021
3022* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3023 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3024 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3025 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3026 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3027
3028* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3029 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3030
3031* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3032\f
3033Version 2.17
3034
3035* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3036
80ceeaee 3037 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3038 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3039 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3040 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3041 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3042 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3043 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3044 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3045 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3046 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3047 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3048 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3049 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3050 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3051 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3052
95b4f1b6
SE
3053* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3054
14bc93a9
JL
3055* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3056 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3057
b54eb3cb
JM
3058* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3059 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3060
7e2bd01f
MS
3061* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3062
08f43f9b
AK
3063* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3064 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3065 zEnterprise z196.
3066 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3067
84b3fd84
FW
3068* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3069 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3070 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3071
815e6fa3
GB
3072* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3073 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3074
400726de
MK
3075* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3076 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3077
7aab07e4 3078* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3079 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3080
15d0da8c
WS
3081* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3082 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3083
3cc3ef96
RM
3084* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3085 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3086 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3087 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3088
b54eb3cb
JM
3089* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3090 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3091
85429b1a 3092* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3093 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3094 default.
3095
b54eb3cb
JM
3096* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3097 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3098 information in --help and --version output.
3099
050af9c4
SP
3100* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3101 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3102 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3103
89a3ad0b
AO
3104* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3105 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3106 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3107 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3108 when the mode is enabled.
3109
6e6249d0
RM
3110* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3111 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3112 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3113 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3114 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3115 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3116 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3117
d9286582
NK
3118* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3119 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3120\f
3121Version 2.16
3122
3123* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3124
a8133e19
JM
3125 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3126 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3127 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3128 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3129 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3130 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3131 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3132 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3133 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3134 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3135 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3136 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3137 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3138 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3139 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3140 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3141 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3142 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3143 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3144 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3145 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3146 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3147 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3148
a086b4d6
L
3149* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3150 configuring glibc with:
3151 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3152 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3153 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3154
380d7e87
UD
3155* ISO C11 support:
3156
3157 + define static_assert
3158
3159 + do not declare gets
3160
3161 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3162
3163 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3164 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3165 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3166 implementation.
8d44e150 3167
74033a25 3168 + timespec_get added
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3169
3170 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3171
ac097f5c
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3172 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3173
16dd419d
UD
3174 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3175
9dc4e1fb 3176* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3177
3178* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3179
3180* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3181 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3182
3183* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3185
3186* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3187 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3188 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3189 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3190 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3191
21708942 3192* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3193 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3194 before 2.6.
83678f76 3195
edb00e4d
RH
3196* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3197 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3198 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3199
83678f76 3200* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3201
3202* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3203 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3204 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3205 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3206 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3207
3208* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3209
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3210* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3211 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3212
3213* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3214
3215* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3216 without a previously built glibc.
3217
3218* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3219 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3220
3221* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3222 now supported for ARM processors.
3223
3224* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3225 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3226 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3227
3228* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3229
3230* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3231 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3232 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3233 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3234
3235* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3236 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3237 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3238 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3239
3240* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3241 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3242 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3243 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3244 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3245
3246* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3247 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3248 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3249 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3250\f
e80fab37 3251Version 2.15
11988f8f 3252
c0244a9d
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3253* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3254
aebae053
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3255 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3256 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3257 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3258 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3259 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3260 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3261 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3262
11988f8f
UD
3263* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3265
3266* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3267 and support for initgroups lookups.
3268 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3269
3270* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3271 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3272
3273* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3274 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3275
fc2ee42a
LD
3276* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3277 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3278 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3279
d42964a0 3280* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3281 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3282
1d3e4b61
UD
3283* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3284 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3285 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3286
c55fbd1e
UD
3287* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3289
3290* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3291 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3292
3293* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3294 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3295
3296* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3298
3299* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3300 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3301
3302* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3304
3305* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3306
3307* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3308 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3309
f0b264f1
AZ
3310* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3311 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3312
6b64057b 3313* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3314\f
dded88cd 3315Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3316
50934221
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3317* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3318
553149f6 3319 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3320 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3321 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3322 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3323 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3324 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3325 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3326 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3327 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3328 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3329
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3330* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3331 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3332 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3333 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3334
3335 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3336 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3337 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3338 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3339
c6489db3 3340* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3341 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3342
72d1dddb 3343* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3344 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3345
3346* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3347
3348* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3350
3351* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3352 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3353 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3354 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3355\f
4828935d
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3356Version 2.13
3357
ac2b484c
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3358* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3359
c30b7ee2
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3360 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3361 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3362 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3363 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3364 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3365
10b3bedc 3366* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3367
ac2b484c 3368* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3369
e9f82e0d
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3370* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3371 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3373\f
ee1a7fab
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3374Version 2.12
3375
d36b9613
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3376* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3377
2e0fb521
DL
3378 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3379 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3380 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3381 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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3382 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3383 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3384 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3385 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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3386
3387* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3388
ee1a7fab
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3389* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3390
5e4295fb
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3391* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3392
3393* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3394 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3396
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3397* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3398 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3399 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3400 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3401 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3402
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3406
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3408
3409 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3410 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3411 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3412 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3413 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3414 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3415
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3416* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3417 mkostemps64
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3418 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3419
24ab9c76 3420* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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3421 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3422
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3423* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3424 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3425
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3426* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3427
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9d36a6c4 3429 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3430 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3432
9d36a6c4 3433 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3435
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3436* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3437 strstr, strcasestr.
3438 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3439
3440* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3441 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3442
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3443* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3444 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3445
3446* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3447 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3448
3449* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3450 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3451 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3452 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3453 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3454 necessity is every process again.
3455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3456
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3458 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3459
3460* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3461 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3462
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3463* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3464 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3466
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3470
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3472
3473 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3474 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3475 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3476 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3477 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3478
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3481
425ce2ed 3482* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3484
1fdd89a7 3485* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3486 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3489 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3491* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3494* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3496
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3497* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3498 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3499
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3500* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3501 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3502
3503* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3504 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3506
735be400 3507* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3508
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3511
3512* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3513 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3515
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3516* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3518
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3519* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3520 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3521 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3522 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3523 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3524 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3527
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3529
3530 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3531 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3532 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3533 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3534 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3535
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3537 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3538
3539* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3540 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3542* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3543 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3545* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3546 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3547 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3548
3549* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3550 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3554* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3555 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3557* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3558 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3559 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3561
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3562* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3563 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3565* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3566 Sinhala)
48b22986 3567 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3569* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3572
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3574
3575 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3576 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3577 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3578 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3579 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3580 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3581 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3582
e038616f 3583* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3584
77751669 3585* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3587* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3588 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3589
3590* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3591
3592* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3593 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3594
3595* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3596 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3597
3598* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3599 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3600 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3601
3602* Faster memset for x86-64.
3603 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3604
3605* Faster memcpy on x86.
3606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3607
3608* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3611* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3612 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3615
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3616* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3617
3618 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3619 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3620 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3621 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3622 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3623
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3624* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3625 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3626
3627* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3628
3629* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3630 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3631 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3632
3633* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3634 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3635
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3637 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3638
3639* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3640
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3641* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3643
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3644* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3645 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3646
3647* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3648 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3649
3650* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3651
3652* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3655* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3656 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3657 yo_NG.
3658
3659+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3665
3666 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3667 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3668 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3669 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3670 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3671 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3672 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3673 4702, 4858
3674
bce20b9a 3675* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3677* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3678
b21fa963 3679* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3682
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3683* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3684
3685 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3686 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3687 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3688 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3689 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3690 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3691 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3692 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3693 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3694
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3696 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3699* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3701
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3704* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3706* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3707 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3708 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3711
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3713 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3714 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3716
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3717* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3718 Ulrich Drepper.
3719
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3720* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3721
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3722* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3723 Ulrich Drepper.
3724
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3725* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3726
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3727* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3728 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3731
3732* More overflow detection functions.
3733
3734* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3735 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3737 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3738 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3739 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3740 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3741 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3742 by Masahide Washizawa.
3743
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3745 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3747* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3748 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3749 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3750 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3752* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3753 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3754
3755* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3756
3757* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3758 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3759 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3760
3761* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3762 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3763
3764* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3765 for compatibility with some other systems.
3766
3767* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3770
3771* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3772
3773 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3774 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3775 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3776 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3777 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3778 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3779
3780 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3781
3782* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3783
3784* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3787
3788* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3789
3790 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3791 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3792 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3793 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3794
3795 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3798
3799* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3802* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3803 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3805
3806* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3807 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3808
0325dd20 3809* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3810 efficiently.
3811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3812
3813* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3814 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3815 handling data.
3816
3817* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3818 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3819 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3821* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3823
3824* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3825 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3826 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3827 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3828
3829* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3830 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3831 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3833
3834* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3835 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3836 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3837 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3838 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3840Version 2.3.3
3841
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3842* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3843 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3844
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3845* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3846 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3847
69be6aaf 3848* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3849 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3850
3851* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3852 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3853
3854* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3855 by Roland McGrath.
3856
c5af724c 3857* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3858 and Ulrich Drepper.
3859
3860* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3861 RFC 3484.
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3863Version 2.3.2
3864
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3865* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3866 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3867 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3868 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3869 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3870 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3871 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3872 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3873 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3874
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3875* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3876 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3877 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3878
3879* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3880
3881* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3882 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3883
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3884* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3885 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3886
52a16e58 3887* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3889* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3890 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3891
3892* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3893 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3894 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3895 of weak definition in ld.so.
3896
3897* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3898 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3899
3900* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3901 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3905* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3906 charsets.
3907
3908* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3909 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3910
bb0ec5bd 3911* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3912 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3913
3914* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3915 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3916
bb0ec5bd 3917* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3918 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3919 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3920
3921* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3922 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3923
bb0ec5bd 3924* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3925 implementation of regex.
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3926
3927* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3928 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3929
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3930* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3931 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3932
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3933* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3934 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3935 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3936
3937* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3938 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3939
3940* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3941 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3942 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3943
3944* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3945 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3946
3947* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3948 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3949 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3950
3951* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3952\f
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3953Version 2.2.6
3954
3955* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3956 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3957
3958* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3959 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3961Version 2.2.5
3962
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3963* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3964 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3965
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3966* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3967 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3968
ad2e4f18 3969* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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3971* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3972
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3973* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3974 as well.
3975
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3976* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3977 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3978
3979* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 3980\f
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3981Version 2.2.4
3982
2995f70e 3983* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3984 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3985
3986* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3987 support Unicode 3.1.
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3988
3989* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3990 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3991
69d5f925 3992* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3993
69d5f925 3994* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3995 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3996 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3997
3998* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3999 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4000
4001* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4002 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4003
4004* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 4005\f
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4006Version 2.2.3
4007
1746f2b0 4008* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4009 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4010 in float, double, and long double format.
4011
f128331c 4012* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4013 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4014 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4015
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4016* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4017 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4018 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4019 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4020
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4021* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4022 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4023 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4024
4025* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4026 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4027
4028* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4029 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4030
4031* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4032 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4033 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4034
4035* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4036 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4037
4038* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4039 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4040
4041* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4043Version 2.2.2
4044
464d97ec 4045* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4046 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4047 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4048 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4049 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4050 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4051 other headers.
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4052
4053* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4054 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4055
4056* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4057 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4058 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4059 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4060
4061* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4062 locales. While
4063
4064 locale -a
4065
4066 only lists the names of the supported locales
4067
4068 locale -a --verbose
4069
4070 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4071 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4073Version 2.2.1
4074
4075* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4076 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4077 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4078 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4079 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4080
4081 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4082
4083 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4084
4085 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4086
4087* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4088 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4089 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4090
4091* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4092 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4093
4094* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4095 changed from the default "C" locale.
4096
4097* The usual bug fixes.
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4099Version 2.2
4100
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4101* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4102 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4103 is in progress.
4104
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4105* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4106
793bd4d9 4107* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4108
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4109 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4110 obviously requires a database library being available.
4111
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4112* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4113
abbffdf9 4114* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4115
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4116* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4117 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4118
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4119* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4120
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4121* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4122 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4123 and Mark Kettenis.
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4124
4125 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4126 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4127 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4128
a00c3ca9 4129 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4130 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4131
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4132* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4133 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4134 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4135
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4136* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4137 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4138 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4140
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4141 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4142 structures for the wide character tables.
4143
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4144* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4145
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4146* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4147
4148* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4149
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4150* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4151 and Yutaka Niibe.
4152
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4153* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4154
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4155* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4156
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4157* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4158
4159* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4160
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4161* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4162
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4163* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4164 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4165 implemented for Linux.
4166
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4167* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4168 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4169 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4170 versions.
4171
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4172* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4173 Masahide Washizawa.
4174
8f3f1e09 4175* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4176\f
4177Version 2.1.3
4178
4179* bug fixes
4180
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4181\f
4182Version 2.1.2
4183
4184* bug fixes
4185
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4187Version 2.1.1
4188
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4189* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4190
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4191* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4192
407d26b7 4193* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4194
4195* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4196
407d26b7 4197* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4198
407d26b7 4199* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4200
4201* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4202
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4203* lots of charmaps corrections
4204
4205* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4206
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4208Version 2.1
4209
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4210* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4211 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4212 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4213 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4214 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4215 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4216
c84142e8 4217* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4218 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4219
1fb05e3d 4220* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4221 symbol level.
4222
4223* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4224 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4225
cbdee279 4226* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4227
4228* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4229 numbers.
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cbdee279 4231* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4232
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4233* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4234 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4235
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4236* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4237 library.
4238
e61abf83 4239* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4240 functions from ISO C 9X.
4241
4242* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4243 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4244
a5a0310d 4245* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4246
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4247* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4248
4249* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4250
440d13e2 4251* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4252
4253* Optimized string functions have been added.
4254
4255* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4256
4257* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4258
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4259* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4260 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4261
4262 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4263 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4264
0dee6738 4265 user system wall
48244d09 4266
0dee6738 4267 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4268
0dee6738 4269 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4270
0dee6738 4271 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4273 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4274
4275 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4276
4277 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4279 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4280 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4281 horribly slow.
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4283 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4284 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4285
4286* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4287
4288* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4289
4290* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4291 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4292
4293* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4294
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4295* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4296 Bambrough.
4297
4298* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4299 latest draft standards.
4300
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4301* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4302
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4303* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4304~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4306alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4307argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4308argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4309argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4310argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4311argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4312argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4313argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4314argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4315argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4316argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4317authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4318authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4319authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4320backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4321backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4322backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4323cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4324cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4325cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4326cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4327cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4328cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4329capget NEW: kernel
4330capset NEW: kernel
4331carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4332cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4333cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4334casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4335casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4336casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4337casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4338casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4339casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4340catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4341catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4342catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4343catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4344catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4345catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4346cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4347ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4348ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4349ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4350ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4351ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4352ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4353cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4354cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4355cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4356cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4357cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4358cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4359clearerr_locked REMOVED
4360clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4361clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4362clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4363clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4364clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4365clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4366clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4367conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4368conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4369conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4370cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4371cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4372cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4373cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4374cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4375cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4376creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4377crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4378creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4379creat64 NEW: LFS
4380csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4381csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4382csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4383csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4384csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4385csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4386csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4387csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4388csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4389ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4390ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4391ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4392ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4393ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4394ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4396ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4397endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4399exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4400exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4401exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4402exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4403exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4404fattach NEW: STREAMS
4405fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4406fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4407fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4408fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4409feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4410fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4411fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4412fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4413feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4414feof_locked REMOVED
4415feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4416ferror_locked REMOVED
4417fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4418fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4419fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4420fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4421feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4422fflush_locked REMOVED
4423ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4424ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4425fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4426fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4427fileno_locked REMOVED
4428fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4429fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4430fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4431fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4432fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4433fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4434fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4435fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4436fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4437fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4439fputc_locked REMOVED
4440fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4441fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4442freopen64 NEW: LFS
4443fseeko NEW: Unix98
4444fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4445fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4446fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4447fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4448ftello NEW: Unix98
4449ftello64 NEW: LFS
4450ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4451ftw64 NEW: LFS
4452fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4453gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4454gamma_r REMOVED
4455gammaf_r REMOVED
4456gammal_r REMOVED
4457getchar_locked REMOVED
4458getdate NEW: Unix98
4459getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4460getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4461getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4462getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4465getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4466getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4468getutxid NEW: Unix98
4469getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4471globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4472gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4473gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4474grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4475host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4477iconv_close NEW: iconv
4478iconv_open NEW: iconv
4479if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4480if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4481if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4482if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4483in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4484in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4485inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4486isastream NEW: STREAMS
4487iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4489key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4490key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4491key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4492key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4493key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4494key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4495key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4496key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4498llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4499llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4500llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4501llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4502llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4503log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4504log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4505log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4506lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4507lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4508lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4509lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4510lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4511lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4512lseek64 NEW: LFS
4513makecontext NEW: Unix98
4514mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4515mmap64 NEW: LFS
4516moncontrol REMOVED
4517modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4518nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4519nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4520nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4521nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4522nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4523nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4525netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4527nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4528nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4530nftw64 NEW: LFS
4531open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4532passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4533pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4534pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4535pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4536pread NEW: Unix98
4537pread64 NEW: LFS
4538printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4539printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4540profil_counter REMOVED
4541pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4542pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4543ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4544ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4545putc_locked REMOVED
4546putchar_locked REMOVED
4547putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4548putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4549putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4550pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4552pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4553readdir64 NEW: LFS
4554readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4555remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4556remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4557remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4558round NEW: ISO C 9x
4559roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4560roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4561rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4562scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4563scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4564scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4565scandir64 NEW: LFS
4566sendfile NEW: kernel
4567setcontext NEW: Unix98
4568setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4569setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4571sigignore NEW: Unix98
4572sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4573sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4574sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4575sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4576sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4577sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4578sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4579sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4580statfs64 NEW: LFS
4581statvfs NEW: Unix98
4582statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4583strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4585strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4586strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4587svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4589svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4590swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4591tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4592tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4593tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4594tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4595tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4596tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4597trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4598truncate64 NEW: LFS
4599truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4600truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4601umount2 NEW: kernel
4602unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4603updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4604user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4605utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4606versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4607versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4608waitid NEW: Unix98
4609wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4610wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4611wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4612wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4613wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4614wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4615wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4616wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4617wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4618wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4619write_profiling REMOVED
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4621xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4622xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4623xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4624xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4625xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4626xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4627xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4628xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4629xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4630xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4631xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4632xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4633xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 4635~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4637Version 2.0.6
4638
4639* more bug fixes
4640
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4641\f
4642Version 2.0.5
4643
4644* more bug fixes
4645
4646* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4647
4648* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4649
4650* rewrite of cbrt function
4651
4652* update of timezone data
4653\f
4654Version 2.0.4
4655
4656* more bug fixes
4657\f
4658Version 2.0.3
4659
4660* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4661\f
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4662Version 2.0.2
4663
4664* more bug fixes
4665
4666* add atoll function
4667
4668* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4670* fix math functions
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4672Version 2.0.1
4673
4674* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4675
4676* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4677
4678* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4679 the ELF dynamic loader.
4680
4681* support for parallel builds is improved
4682\f
40a4b79f 4683Version 2.0
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4685* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4686 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4687 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4688
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4689* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4690 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4691 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4692 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4693 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4694 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4695 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4696 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4697 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4698 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4699 files in the ELF format.
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4700
4701* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4702 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4703
4704* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4705 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4706 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4707 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4708 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4709 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4710 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4711 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4712 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4713 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4714 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4716* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4717 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4718 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4719 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4720 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4721
f7eac6eb 4722* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4723 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4724 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4725 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4726 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4727
4728* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4729
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4730* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4731 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4732 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4733 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4734 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4735 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4736 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4737 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4738 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4739
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4740* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4741 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4742 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4743
4744* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4745 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4746 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4747
4748* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4749 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4750 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4751 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4752
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4753* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4754 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4755 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4756
4757* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4758 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4759 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4760
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4761* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4762 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4763
f7eac6eb 4764* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4765 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4766 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4767 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4768
4769* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4770 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4771 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4772
71733723 4773* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4774 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4775 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4776 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4777 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4778 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4779 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4780 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4781
4782* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4783 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4784 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4785 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4786 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4787 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4788 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4789
4790* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4791 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4792 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4793 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4794 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4795 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4796
4797* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4798 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4799
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4800* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4801 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4802 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4804* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4805
4806* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4807 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4808 their use is discouraged.
4809
4810* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4811 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4813* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4814 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4815
4816* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4817 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4818
4819* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4820 see <dirent.h>.
4821
4822* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4823 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4824 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4825 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4826 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4827
4828* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4829 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4830 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4831 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4832
4833* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4834 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4835
4836* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4837 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4838 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4839 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4840 number generator.
4841
4842* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4843 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4844
4845* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4846 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4847
71733723 4848* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4849 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4850 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4851 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4853* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4854
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4855* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4856 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4857 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4858
4859* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4860 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4862* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4863 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4864 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4865 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4866
4867* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4868 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4869 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4870 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4871 programs already written to use it.)
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4872
4873* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4874 constants.
4875
4876* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4877 with 4.4 BSD.
4878
4879* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4880 a given effective group ID.
4881
4882* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4883 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4884 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4885 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4886
4887* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4888 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4889 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4890 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4891 doing the same thing.
4892
4893* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4894 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4895
4896* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4897 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4898
4899* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4900
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4901* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4902 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4903 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4904 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4905 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4906
4907* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4908 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4909
4910* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4911 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4912 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4913 function.
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4914
4915* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4916
4917* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4918 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4919 strings.
4920
4921* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4922 and writing the utmp file.
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4923
4924* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4925 Thorsten Kukuk.
4926
4927* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4928 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4929 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4930
4931* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4932 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4933
4934* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4935 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4936 specification.
4937
4938* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4939 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4940 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4941 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4942
4943* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4944 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4945 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4946
4947* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4948 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4949 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4950 expression matcher.
4951
4952* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4953 functionality.
4954
4955* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4956 by Ulrich Drepper.
4957
4958* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4959
4960* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4961 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4962 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4964Version 1.09
4965
4966* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4967
4968* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4969 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4970
4971* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4972 want to put themselves in the background.
4973
4974* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4975 run without an operating system.
4976
4977* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4978 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4979
4980* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4981 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4982
4983* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4984
4985* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4986 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4987 have YP (aka NIS).
4988
4989* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4990 conventions.
4991
4992* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4993 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4994\f
4995Version 1.08
4996
4997* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4998 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4999 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5000
5001* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5002 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5003
5004* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5005 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5006
5007* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5008
5009* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5010
5011* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5012 compatibility.
5013
5014* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5015 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5016 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5017
5018* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5019
5020* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5021 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5022 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5023
5024* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5025 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5026 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5027 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5028 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5029 on a block).
5030
5031* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5032 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5033 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5034 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5035 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5036 cross-compiler.
5037
5038* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5039 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
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5041Version 1.07
5042
5043* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5044 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5045
5046* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5047 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5048 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5049
5050* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5051 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5052 address of the last character written.
5053
5054* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5055 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5056
5057* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5058 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5059
5060* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5061 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5062 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5063 you dereference this pointer.
5064
5065* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5066 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5067
5068* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5069 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5070 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5071 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5072
5073* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5074 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5075 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5076 EAGAIN in every system call function.
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5078Version 1.06
5079
5080* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5081 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5082 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5083 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5084 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5085
5086* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5087
5088* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5089
5090* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5091 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5092
5093* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5094 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5095
5096* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5097 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5098
5099* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5100 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5101 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5102 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5103 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5104
5105* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5106 to the error code in `errno'.
5107
5108* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5109 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5110 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5111 malloc'd string.
5112
5113* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5114 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5115 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5116
5117* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5118 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5120Version 1.05
5121
5122* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5123 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5124 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5125
5126* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5127 characters.
5128
5129* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5130 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5131
5132* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5133\f
5134Version 1.04
5135
5136* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5137 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5138 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5139 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5140
5141* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5142 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5143 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5144
5145* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5146 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5147
5148* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5149 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5150 made itself into a shared library.
5151
5152* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5153 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5154
5155* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5156 with limited length.
5157
5158* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5159
5160* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5161
5162* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5163
5164* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5165 function for traversing a directory tree.
5166
5167* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5168 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5169 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5170 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5171
5172* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5173 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5174
5175* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5176
5177* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5178 things to your strings.
5179
5180* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5181
5182* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5183 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5184 supporting those systems.
5185
5186* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5187 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5188 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5189 configuration files.
5190
5191* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5192 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5193
5194* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5195 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5196 in <strings.h>.)
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5197
5198* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5199 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5200 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5201 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5202 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5203 required storage is not available.
5204
5205* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5206 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5207
5208* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5209 latest files released from Berkeley.
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5211----------------------------------------------------------------------
5212Copyright information:
5213
09533208 5214Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5215
5216 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5217 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5218 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5219 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5220
5221 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5222 of this document, or of portions of it,
5223 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5224 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5225\f
5226Local variables:
5227version-control: never
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