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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.27
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10Major new features:
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12* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin and tan
13 with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu from Intel.
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15* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
16
4ea49f4c 17* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f and powf.
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19* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
20 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
21 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
22 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
23 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
24 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
25 from a security and performance perspective.
26
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27* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
28 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
29 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
30 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
31
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32Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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34* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
35 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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37* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
38 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
39 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
40 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
41 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
42 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
43 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
44
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45* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
46 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
47 exp10l for these functions instead.
48
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49* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
50 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
51 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
52
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53* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
54 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
55 ignored.
56
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57Changes to build and runtime requirements:
58
59 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
60
61Security related changes:
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63 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
64 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
65 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
66 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
67 script.)
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69The following bugs are resolved with this release:
70
71 [The release manager will add the list generated by
72 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
73
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75Version 2.26
76
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77Major new features:
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79* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
80 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
81 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
82 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
83 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
84 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
85 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
86
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87* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
88 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 89 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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90 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
91 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
92 are rendered with pango, see for example:
93 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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95* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
96 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
97 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 99* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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101 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
102 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
103 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 104
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105 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
106 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
107 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
108 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
109 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 110
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111 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
112 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
113 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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115* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
116 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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118* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
119 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
120 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
121 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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123* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
124 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
125 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
126 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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128* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
129 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
130 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
131 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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133* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
134 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
135 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 136
2b2ccd0c 137* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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138 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
139 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
140 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 142 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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143 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
144 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
145 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
146 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
147
148 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
149 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
150 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
151 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
152 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
153 interfaces should be used instead.
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155Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
156
157* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
158 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
159 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
160 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
161 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
162 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
163 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
164 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
165
166* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
167 removed.
168
169* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 170 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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171 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
172 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
173
174* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
175 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
176 default.
177
178 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
179 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
180 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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181 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
182 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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184 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
185 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
186 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
187 name service modules, to be built and installed.
188
189* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
190 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
191 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
192 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
193
194* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
195 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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197* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
198 exported by accident.
199
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200* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
201 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
202 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
203
204* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
205 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
206 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
207 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
208
209* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
210
211* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
212
213* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
214 free instead.
215
216* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
217 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
218
219* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
220 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
221
222* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
223 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
224 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
225 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
226 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
227 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
228 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
229 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
230
231* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
232 synced with the kernel:
233
234 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
235 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
236
237 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
238 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
239 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
240
241 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
242 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
243
244Changes to build and runtime requirements:
245
246* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
247 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
248 x86-32 and x86-64.)
249
7e368000 250* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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252* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
253 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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255 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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256 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
257 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
258 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 259 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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261Security related changes:
262
e14a2772 263* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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264 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
265
266* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
267 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
268
269* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
270 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
271 (CVE-2010-3192).
272
273* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
274 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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276The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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278 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
279 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
280 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
281 fields
282 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
283 (CVE-2010-3192)
284 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
285 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
286 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
287 ld.bfd is available
288 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
289 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
290 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
291 x86 and other generic code
292 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
293 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
294 incorrect
295 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
296 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
297 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
298 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
299 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
300 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
301 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
302 resolver
303 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
304 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
305 order of 0D36 and 0D37
306 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
307 chillu characters
308 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
309 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
310 receiving data
311 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
312 whitespace
313 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
314 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
315 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
316 for Peru
317 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
318 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
319 failures consistently
320 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
321 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
322 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
323 frame-pointer on i386
324 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
325 register
326 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
327 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
328 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
329 generic c code is used
330 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
331 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
332 around 4000
333 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
334 (CVE-2017-12133)
335 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
336 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
337 with -lieee
338 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
339 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
340 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
341 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
342 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
343 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
344 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
345 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
346 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
347 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
348 remove()
349 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
350 checked for errors.
351 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
352 new posix_spawn implementation
353 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
354 leads to lower CPU frequency
355 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
356 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
357 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
358 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
359 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
360 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
361 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
362 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
363 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
364 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
365 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
366 not support gethostbyname4_r
367 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
368 switching
369 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
370 arenas
371 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
372 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
373 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
374 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
375 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
376 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
377 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
378 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
379 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
380 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
381 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
382 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
383 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
384 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
385 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
386 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
387 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
388 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
389 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
390 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
391 retry value
392 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
393 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
394 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
395 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
396 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
397 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
398 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
399 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
400 [21537] libc:
401 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
402 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
403 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
404 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
405 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
406 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
407 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
408 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
409 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
410 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
411 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
412 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
413 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
414 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
415 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
416 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
417 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
418 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
419 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
420 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
421 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
422 issue on x86-64
423 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
424 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
425 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
426 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
427 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
428 construction
429 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
430 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
431 between_2_3
432 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
433 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
434 conditions
435 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
436 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
437 Hindi Locale
438 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
439 posix/sched_cpucount.c
440 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
441 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
442 locale
443 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
444 leading to relocation crash
445 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
446 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
447 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
448 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
449 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
450 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
451 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
452 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
453 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
454 locale
455 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
456 locale
457 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
458 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
459 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
460 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
461 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
462 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
463 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
464 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
465 strings
466 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
467 protector=all
468 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
469 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
470 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
471 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
472 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
473 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
474 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
475 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
476 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
477 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
478 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
479 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
480 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
481 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
482 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
483 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
484 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
485 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
486 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
487 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
488 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
489 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
490 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
491 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
492 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
493 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
494 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
495 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
496 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
497 with unicode 9.0
498 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
499 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
500 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
501 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
502 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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506
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507* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
508 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
509 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
510 Library.
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513 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 514 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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516
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517* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
518 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
519 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
520 the GNU C Library.
521
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522* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
523 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
524 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
525 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
526 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
527 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
528 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
529 will not.
530
531 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
532 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
533 many years.
534
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536 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
537 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
538
539 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
540 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
541 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
542 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
543 problem.
544
ec94343f 545* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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547 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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550 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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552 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
553 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
554 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
555 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
556 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
557 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
558 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
559 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
560 WINT_WIDTH.
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562* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
563
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564 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
565
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566 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
567 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
568 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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571 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
572
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573 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
574 fminmagf, fminmagl.
575
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576 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
577
29cb9293 578 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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580 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
581 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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584
eb3c12c7 585 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 586 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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589 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
590
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592 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
593 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
594
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596 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
597 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
598 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
599 effects of the memory clear).
600
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602 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
603 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
604 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
605
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607 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
608 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
609 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
610 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
611 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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614 have been added.
615
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616* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
617 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
618 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
619 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
620 as large as several megabytes.
621
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623 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
624 been removed.
625
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626* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
627 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
628 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
629 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
630 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
631 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
632 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
633
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634* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
635 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
636 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
637 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
638
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640 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
641 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
642 Internet.
643
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644* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
645 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
646 They were already unimplemented.
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648* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
649 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
650 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
651 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
652
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654 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
655 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
656 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
657 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
658
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660 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
661 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
662 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
663 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
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666 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
667 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
668 did not reflect that.
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671 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
672 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
673 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
674 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
675 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
676 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
677 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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680 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
681 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
682 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
683
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685 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
686 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
687 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
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690 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
691 guarantees.
692
693* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
694 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
695 make state changes.
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698
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701 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
702 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
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706 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
707 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
708 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
709 (CVE-2015-5180)
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713 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
714 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
715 protector-all
716 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
717 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
718 before it started waiting
719 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
720 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
721 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
722 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
723 wrong type
724 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
725 library linked with pthread
726 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
727 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
728 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
729 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
730 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
731 after being __libc_memalign()'d
732 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
733 when it shouldnt
734 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
735 not
736 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
737 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
738 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
739 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
740 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
741 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
742 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
743 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
744 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
745 termination
746 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
747 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
748 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
749 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
750 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
751 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
752 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
753 causes a segmentation fault
754 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
755 linking
756 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
757 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
758 uninitialized GOT
759 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
760 versions
761 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
762 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
763 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
764 is always true.
765 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
766 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
767 modes
768 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
769 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
770 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
771 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
772 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
773 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
774 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
775 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
776 libpthread.a
777 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
778 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
779 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
780 _res_hconf
781 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
782 information.
783 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
784 penalty
785 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
786 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
787 cause transition penalty
788 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
789 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
790 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
791 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
792 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
793 mcount.oS)
794 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
795 Checking
796 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
797 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
798 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
799 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
800 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
801 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
802 multi-arch
803 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
804 (RES_USEBSTRING)
805 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
806 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
807 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
808 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
809 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
810 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
811 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
812 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
813 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
814 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
815 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
816 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
817 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
818 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
819 glibc
820 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
821 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
822 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
823 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
824 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
825 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
826 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
827 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
828 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
829 U+20AC), not same as GBK
830 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
831 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
832 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
833 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
834 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
835 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
836 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
837 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
838 RES_USE_INET6
839 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
840 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
841 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
842 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
843 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
844 wrong condition
845 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
846 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
847 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
848 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
849 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
850 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
851 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
852 clang
853 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
854 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
855 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
856 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
857 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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862 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
863 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
864 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
865 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
866 architectures.
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869 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
870 been included in previous releases.
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873 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
874
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875* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
876 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
877 instead of “union wait”.
878
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879* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
880 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
881 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
882 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
883 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
884 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
885 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
886
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888 API.
889
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891 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
892 drop it.
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895 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
896 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
897 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
898 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
899 extensions.
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903* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
904 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
905 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
906
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907* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
908 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
909 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
910 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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912* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
913 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
914 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
915
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916* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
917 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
918 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
919
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920* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
921 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
922 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
923 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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926
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927 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
928 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
929 of MS-DOS.
930 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
931 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
932 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
933 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
934 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
935 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
936 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
937 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
938 CLDR data
939 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
940 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
941 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
942 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
943 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
944 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
945 romanisation
946 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
947 and +/-
948 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
949 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
950 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
951 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
952 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
953 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
954 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
955 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
956 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
957 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
958 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
959 all locales
960 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
961 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
962 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
963 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
964 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
965 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
966 execute
967 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
968 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
969 -Wsystem-headers
970 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
971 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
972 Romanian locale data
973 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
974 symbol
975 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
976 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
977 language
978 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
979 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
980 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
981 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
982 machine
983 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
984 description
985 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
986 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
987 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
988 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
989 when using RTLD_NEXT
990 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
991 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
992 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
993 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
994 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
995 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
996 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
997 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
998 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
999 Excavator core
1000 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1001 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1002 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1003 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1004 double range
1005 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1006 part zero incorrect
1007 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1008 equality tests
1009 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1010 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1011 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1012 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1013 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1014 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1015 glibc-2.22
1016 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1017 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1018 'tst-numeric.c'
1019 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1020 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1021 low part
1022 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1023 result
1024 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1025 unaligned stack
1026 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1027 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1028 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1029 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1030 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1031 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1032 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1033 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1034 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1035 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1036 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1037 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1038 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1039 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1040 modes
1041 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1042 server addresses
1043 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1044 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1045 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1046 response to getaddrinfo
1047 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1048 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1049 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1050 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1051 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1052 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1053 sometimes incorrect
1054 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1055 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1056 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1057 record types
1058 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1059 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1060 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1061 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1062 (CVE-2016-3075)
1063 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1064 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1065 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1066 resolving symbols
1067 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1068 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1069 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1070 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1071 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1072 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1073 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1074 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1075 gethosts
1076 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1077 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1078 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1079 (CVE-2016-3706)
1080 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1081 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1082 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1083 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1084 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1085 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1086 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1087 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1088 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1089 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1090 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1091 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1092 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1093 executable
1094 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1095 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1096 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1097 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1098 XPG3
1099 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1100 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1101 (CVE-2016-4429)
1102 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1103 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1104 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1105 AS not supporting AVX512
1106 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1107 sNaN argument
1108 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1109 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1110 argument
1111 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1112 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1113 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1114 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1115 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1116 eax=0x80000001
1117 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1118 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1119 subnormals
1120 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1121 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1122 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1123 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1124 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1125 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1126 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1127 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1128 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1129 input
1130 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1131 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1132 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1133 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1134 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1135 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1136 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1137 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1138 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1139 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1140 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1141 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1142 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1143 double rounding
1144 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1145 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1146 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1147 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1148 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1149 (Only arm/linux)
1150 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1151 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1152 fallbacks
1153 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1154 "invalid" exceptions
1155 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1156 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1157 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1158 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1159 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1160 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1161 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1162 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1163 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1165Version 2.23
1166
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1167* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1168 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1169 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1170 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1171 89, 16061, and 18568.
1172
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1173* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1174 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1175 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1176 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1177 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1178 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1179 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1180
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1181* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1182 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1183 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1184
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1185* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1186 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1187 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1188 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1189 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1190 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1191 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1192
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1193* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1194 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1195 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1196 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1197 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1198 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1199 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1200 Ericsson.)
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1202* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1203 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1204 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1205 independent of the GNU C Library.
1206
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1207* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1208 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1210* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1211 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1212 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1213 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1214 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1215 Linux kernel.
1216
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1217* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1218 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1220* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1221 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1222 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1223 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1224 defining their own copy.
1225
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1226* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1227 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1228 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1230Security related changes:
1231
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1232* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1233 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1234
1235* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1236 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1237 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1238 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1239 (CVE-2015-8777)
1240
1241* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1242 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1243
1244* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1245 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1246
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1247* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1248 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1249 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1251* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1252 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1253 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1254 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1255 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1256 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1257 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1258 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1259 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1260 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1261 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1262 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1263 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1264
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1267 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1268 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1269 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1270 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1271 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1272 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1273 use `mkstemp'
1274 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1275 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1276 overflow/underflow errors
1277 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1278 overflow/underflow
1279 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1280 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1281 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1282 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1283 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1284 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1285 are not contiguous
1286 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1287 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1288 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1289 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1290 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1291 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1292 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1293 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1294 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1295 all exceptions
1296 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1297 arguments
1298 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1299 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1300 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1301 should include
1302 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1303 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1304 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1305 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1306 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1307 GNU/Linux
1308 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1309 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1310 arguments
1311 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1312 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1313 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1314 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1315 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1316 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1317 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1318 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1319 rounding results
1320 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1321 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1322 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1323 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1324 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1325 fails
1326 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1327 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1328 block boundary
1329 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1330 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1331 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1332 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1333 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1334 4.7?
1335 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1336 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1337 (related to lock elision)
1338 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1339 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1340 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1341 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1342 (CVE-2015-8779)
1343 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1344 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1345 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1346 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1347 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1348 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1349 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1350 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1351 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1352 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1353 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1354 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1355 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1356 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1357 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1358 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1359 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1360 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1361 contains a vector instruction exception.
1362 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1363 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1364 locales
1365 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1366 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1367 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1368 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1369 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1370 missing break ?
1371 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1372 32bit processes
1373 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1374 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1375 infinity
1376 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1377 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1378 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1379 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1380 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1381 be forced unloaded
1382 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1383 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1384 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1385 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1386 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1387 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1388 statically too large
1389 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1390 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1391 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1392 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1393 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1394 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1395 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1396 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1397 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1398 FUTEX_SHARED
1399 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1400 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1401 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1402 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1403 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1404 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1405 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1406 opendir()
1407 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1408 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1409 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1410 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1411 signgam
1412 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1413 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1414 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1415 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1416 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1417 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1418 dependencies
1419 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1420 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1421 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1422 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1423 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1424 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1425 (CVE-2015-8776)
1426 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1427 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1428 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1429 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1430 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1431 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1432 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1433 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1434 contention
1435 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1436 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1437 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1438 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1439 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1440 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1441 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1442 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1443 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1444 rounding modes
1445 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1446 ILP32
1447 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1448 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1449 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1450 threshold
1451 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1452 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1453 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1454 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1455 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1456 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1457 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1458 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1459 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1460 pthread_setaffinity_np
1461 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1462 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1463 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1464 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1465 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1466 prelink
1467 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1468 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1469 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1470 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1471 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1472 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1473 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1474 bits/mathcalls.h
1475 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1476 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1477 for C99-based standards
1478 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1479 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1480 math-only
1481 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1482 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1483 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1484 disabled
1485 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1486 "inexact" exceptions
1487 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1488 arguments
1489 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1490 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1491 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1492 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1493 rules
1494 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1495 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1496 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1497 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1498 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1499 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1500 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1501 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1502 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1503 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1504 from 32bit
1505 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1506 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1507 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1508 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1509 subnormals
1510 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1511 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1512 error on 32-bit architectures
1513 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1514 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1515 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1516 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1517 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1518 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1519 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1520 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1521 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1522 -Os
1523 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1524 CPU's.
1525 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1526 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1527 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1528 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1529 architectures
1530 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1532Version 2.22
1533
1534* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1535
3df5cd98 1536 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1537 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1538 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1539 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1540 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1541 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1542 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1543 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1544 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1545 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1546 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1547 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1548 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1549 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1550 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1551 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1552 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1553 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1554 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1555 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1557* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1558 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1559
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1560* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1561 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1562 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1563 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1564 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1565 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1567* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1568 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1569 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1570 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1571 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1572
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1573* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1574 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1575 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1576
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1577* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1578 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1579 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1580 17998.
1581
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1582* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1583 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1584 condition in some applications.
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1585
1586* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1587 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1588 pow, powf.
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1589 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1590 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1591 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1592 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1593 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1594
1595* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1596 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1597 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1598 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1599
1600* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1601 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1602 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1603
1604* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1605 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1606
1607* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1608 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1609 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1610
a03ba363 1611 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1612 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1613 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1615Version 2.21
1616
1617* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1618
042e1521 1619 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1620 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1621 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1622 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1623 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1624 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1625 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1626 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1627 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1628 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1629 17892.
1630
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1631* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1632 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1633 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1634 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1635 intended.
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1636
1637* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1638 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1639 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1640 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1641 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1642 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1644* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1645
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1646* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1647 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1648 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1650* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1651 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1652 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1653 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1654 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1655 effects being visible outside transactions.
1656
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1657* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1658 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1660* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1661
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1662* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1663 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1664 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1665 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1666 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 1667
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1668* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1669 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1670
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1671* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1672 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1673 format.
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1675* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1676 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1677 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1678
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1679* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1680 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1681
0d560bbf 1682* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1683
1684* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1685 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1686 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1687 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1688
1689* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1690 with newer versions of bison.
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1691
1692* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1693 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1694 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1695 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1696 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1697 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1698 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1699 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1700 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1701 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1702 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1703 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1704 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1705
1706 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1707 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1708 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1709 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1710 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1712Version 2.20
1713
1714* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1715
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1716 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1717 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1718 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1719 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1720 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1721 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1722 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1723 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1724 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1725 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1726 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1727 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1728 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1729 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1730 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1731
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1732* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1733 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1734 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1735 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1736 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1737 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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1738 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1739 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1740 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1741 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1742
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1743* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1744 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1745 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1746 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1747 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1748
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1749* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1750
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1751* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1752 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1753
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1754* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1755 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1756 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1757 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1758 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1759 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1760
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1761* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1762 from ports.
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1763
1764* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1765 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1766 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1767 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1768 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1769 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1770 test macros defined.
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1771
1772* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1773
1774* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1775 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1776 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1777 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1778 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1779 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1780 is not built.
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1781
1782* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1783 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1784 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1785 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1786 invocation.
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1787
1788* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1789 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1790 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1792* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1793 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1794 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1795 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1796
1797* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1798 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1799 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1800 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1801 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1802 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1803 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1804 additional checks.
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1805
1806* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1807 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1808 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1809 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1810 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1811 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1812 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1813 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1814 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1815
1816* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1817 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1818 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1819 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1820 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1821 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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1822
1823* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1824 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1825 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1826 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1828Version 2.19
1829
1830* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1831
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1832 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1833 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1834 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1835 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1836 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1837 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1838 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1839 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1840 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1841 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1842 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1843 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1844 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1845 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1846 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1847 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1848 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1849 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1850
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1851* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1852 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1853
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1854* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1855 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1856 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1857 extension which uses __block.
1858
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1859* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1860 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1861 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1862 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1863 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1864
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1865* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1866 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1867 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1868 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1869 if malloc fails.
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1870
1871* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1872 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1873 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1874 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1875 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1876
1877* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1878 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1879 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1880
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1881* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1882 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1883 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1884 #15856, #15857).
1885
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1886* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1887 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1888
82bab04b 1889* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1890 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 1891
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1892* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1893
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1894* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1895 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1896
3e181dda 1897* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1898
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1899* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1900
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1901* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1902 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1903 for which the C library was built.
1904
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1905* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1906 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1907 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1908 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1909 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1910 in the following circumstances:
1911
1912 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1913
1914 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1915 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1916
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1917* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1918 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1919
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1920* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1921 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1922
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1923* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1924
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1925* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1926 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1927
8b7d57cd 1928* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1929
1930* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1931
fd712ef3 1932* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1933
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1934* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1935 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1936 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1937 disable some of those declarations.
1938
7011c262 1939* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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1940 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1941 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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1942
1943* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1944 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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1945
1946* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1947 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1948 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1949 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1950 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1951 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1952 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1953 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1954 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1955 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1956 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1957 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1958 require recompilation.
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1960Version 2.18
1961
1962* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1963
17db6e8d 1964 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1965 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1966 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1967 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1968 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1969 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1970 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1971 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1972 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1973 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1974 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1975 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1976 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1977 15755, 15759.
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1979* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1980 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1981 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1982 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1983 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1984 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1985
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1986* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1987 #15078).
1988
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1989* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1990 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1991
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SP
1992* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1993 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1994 destructor calls to glibc.
1995
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1996* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1997 output.
1998
1999* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2000 non-x86 architectures.
2001
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2002* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2003
2004* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2005
2006* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2007 Richard Henderson.
2008
2009* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2010
2011* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2012 Richard Henderson.
2013
2014* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2015 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2016
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2017* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2018
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2019* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2020 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2021
c204ab28
SP
2022* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2023 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2024
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PE
2025* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2026 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2027 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2028
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2029* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2030 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2031 attributes of a process.
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2032
2033* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2034 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2035 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2036 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2037 mutexes.
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RA
2038
2039* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2040 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2041
2042* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2043\f
2044Version 2.17
2045
2046* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2047
80ceeaee 2048 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2049 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2050 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2051 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2052 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2053 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2054 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2055 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2056 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2057 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2058 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2059 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2060 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2061 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2062 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2063
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2064* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2065
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JL
2066* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2067 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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2069* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2070 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2071
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2072* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2073
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2074* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2075 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2076 zEnterprise z196.
2077 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2078
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2079* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2080 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2081 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2082
815e6fa3
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2083* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2084 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2085
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2086* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2087 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2088
7aab07e4 2089* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2090 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2091
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2092* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2093 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2094
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2095* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2096 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2097 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2098 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2099
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2100* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2101 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2102
85429b1a 2103* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2104 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2105 default.
2106
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2107* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2108 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2109 information in --help and --version output.
2110
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2111* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2112 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2113 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2114
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2115* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2116 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2117 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2118 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2119 when the mode is enabled.
2120
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2121* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2122 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2123 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2124 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2125 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2126 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2127 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2128
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2129* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2130 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2131\f
2132Version 2.16
2133
2134* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2135
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2136 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2137 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2138 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2139 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2140 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2141 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2142 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2143 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2144 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2145 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2146 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2147 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2148 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2149 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2150 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2151 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2152 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2153 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2154 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2155 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2156 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2157 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2158 14277, 14278.
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2161 configuring glibc with:
2162 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2163 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2164 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2165
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2167
2168 + define static_assert
2169
2170 + do not declare gets
2171
2172 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2173
2174 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2175 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2176 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2177 implementation.
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2181 + uchar.h support added
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2183 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2184
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2185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2186
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2189* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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2191* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2194* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2195 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2197* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2198 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2199 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2200 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2201 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2202
21708942 2203* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2204 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2205 before 2.6.
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2207* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2208 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2209 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2210
83678f76 2211* New locales: mag_IN
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2213* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2214 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2215 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2216 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2217 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2219* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2220
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2221* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2222 and Will Schmidt.
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2224* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2225
2226* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2227 without a previously built glibc.
2228
2229* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2230 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2231
2232* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2233 now supported for ARM processors.
2234
2235* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2236 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2237 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2238
2239* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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2241* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2242 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2243 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2244 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2246* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2247 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2248 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2249 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2251* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2252 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2253 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2254 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2255 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2256
2257* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2258 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2259 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2260 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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2265
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2266 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2267 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2268 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2269 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2270 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2271 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2272 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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2274* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2275 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2277* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2278 and support for initgroups lookups.
2279 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2281* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2282 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2284* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2285 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2287* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2288 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2289 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2290
d42964a0 2291* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2292 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2293
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2294* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2295 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2297
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2298* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2301* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2304* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2307* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2308 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2310* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2311 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2312
2313* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2316* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2317
2318* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2321* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2322 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 2324* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2328* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2329
553149f6 2330 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2331 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2332 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2333 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2335 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2336 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2337 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2338 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2339 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2341* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2342 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2343 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2344 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2345
2346 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2347 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2348 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2350
c6489db3 2351* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2352 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2353
72d1dddb 2354* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2355 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2356
2357* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2358
2359* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2361
2362* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2363 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2364 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2365 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2367Version 2.13
2368
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2369* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2370
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2371 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2372 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2373 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2374 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2375 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2376
10b3bedc 2377* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2378
ac2b484c 2379* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2381* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2382 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2385Version 2.12
2386
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2387* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2388
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2389 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2390 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2391 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2392 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2393 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2394 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2395 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2396 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2397
2398* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 2399
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2400* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2401
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2402* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2403
2404* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2405 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2407
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2408* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2409 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2410 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2411 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2412 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2413
d36b9613 2414* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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2416Version 2.11
2417
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2418* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2419
2420 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2421 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2422 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2423 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2424 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2425 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2426
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2427* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2428 mkostemps64
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2429 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2430
24ab9c76 2431* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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2432 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2433
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2434* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2435 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2436
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2437* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2438
0122f28e 2439* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 2440 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2441 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2443
9d36a6c4 2444 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2446
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2447* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2448 strstr, strcasestr.
2449 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2450
2451* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2452 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2453
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2454* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2455 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2456
2457* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2459
2460* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2461 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2462 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2463 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2464 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2465 necessity is every process again.
2466 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2467
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2468* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2469 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2470
2471* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2472 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2473
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2474* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2475 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2476 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2477
9dd5b8a1 2478* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2480Version 2.10
2481
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2482* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2483
2484 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2485 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2486 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2487 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2488 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2489
bb066545 2490* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2492
425ce2ed 2493* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2495
1fdd89a7 2496* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2497 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2499* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2500 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 2502* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2505* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2507
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2508* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2509 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2510
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2511* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2512 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2513
2514* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2515 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2517
735be400 2518* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2519
84aa52d7 2520* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2521 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2522
2523* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2524 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2526
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2527* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2528 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2529
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2530* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2531 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2532 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2533 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2534 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2538
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2540
2541 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2542 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2543 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2544 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2545 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2546
b29899ae 2547* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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2548 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2549
2550* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2551 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2553* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2554 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2556* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2557 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2559
2560* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2561 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2565* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2566 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2568* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2569 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2570 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2572
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2573* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2574 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2576* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2577 Sinhala)
48b22986 2578 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2580* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2583
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2585
2586 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2587 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2588 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2589 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2590 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2591 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2592 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2593
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b4354cf4 2595
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2598* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2599 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2600
2601* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2602
2603* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2605
2606* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2608
2609* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2610 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2611 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2612
2613* Faster memset for x86-64.
2614 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2615
2616* Faster memcpy on x86.
2617 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2618
2619* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2622* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2623 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2626
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2628
2629 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2630 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2631 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2632 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2633 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2634
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2635* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2636 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2637
2638* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2639
2640* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2641 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2642 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2643
2644* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2645 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2646
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2649
2650* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2651
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2652* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2654
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2655* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2656 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2657
2658* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2659 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2660
2661* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2662
2663* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2664 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2666* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2667 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2668 yo_NG.
2669
2670+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2676
2677 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2678 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2679 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2680 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2681 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2682 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2683 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2684 4702, 4858
2685
bce20b9a 2686* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2689
b21fa963 2690* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2693
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2695
2696 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2697 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2698 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2699 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2700 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2701 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2702 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2703 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2704 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2705
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2707 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2710* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2712
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2715* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2717* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2718 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2719 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 2720 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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2721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2722
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2724 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2725 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2727
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2729 Ulrich Drepper.
2730
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2731* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2732
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2733* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2734 Ulrich Drepper.
2735
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2736* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2737
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2738* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2739 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2742
2743* More overflow detection functions.
2744
2745* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2746 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2748 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2749 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2750 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2751 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2752 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2753 by Masahide Washizawa.
2754
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2755* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2756 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2758* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2759 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2760 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2761 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2763* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2764 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2765
2766* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2767
2768* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2769 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2770 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2771
2772* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2773 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2774
2775* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2776 for compatibility with some other systems.
2777
2778* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2780Version 2.3.6
2781
2782* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2783
2784 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2785 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2786 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2787 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2788 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2789 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2790
2791 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2792
2793* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2794
2795* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2797Version 2.3.5
2798
2799* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2800
2801 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2802 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2803 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2804 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2805
2806 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2808Version 2.3.4
2809
2810* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2812
2813* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2814 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2815 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2816
2817* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2818 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2819
0325dd20 2820* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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2821 efficiently.
2822 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2823
2824* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2825 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2826 handling data.
2827
2828* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2829 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2830 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2831
2832* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2833 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2834
2835* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2836 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2837 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2838 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2839
2840* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2841 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2842 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2843 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2844
2845* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2846 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2847 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2848 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2849 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2851Version 2.3.3
2852
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2853* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2854 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2855
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2856* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2857 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 2858
69be6aaf 2859* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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2860 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2861
2862* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2865* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2866 by Roland McGrath.
2867
c5af724c 2868* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2870
2871* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2872 RFC 3484.
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2875
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2876* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2877 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2878 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2879 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2880 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2881 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2882 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2883 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2884 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2885
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2886* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2887 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2888 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2889
2890* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2891
2892* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2893 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2895* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2896 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2897
52a16e58 2898* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2900* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2901 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2902
2903* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2904 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2905 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2906 of weak definition in ld.so.
2907
2908* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2909 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2910
2911* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2912 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2916* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2917 charsets.
2918
2919* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2920 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2922* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2923 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2925* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2926 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2927
bb0ec5bd 2928* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2929 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2930 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2932* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2933 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2934
bb0ec5bd 2935* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2936 implementation of regex.
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2938* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2939 Unicode 3.2.
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2941* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2942 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2944* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2945 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2946 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2948* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2950
2951* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2952 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2953 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2954
2955* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2956 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2958* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2959 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2960 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2962* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2965
2966* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2967 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2968
2969* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2970 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2973
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2974* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2975 128-bit long double format.
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2977* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2978 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2979
ad2e4f18 2980* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2983
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2985 as well.
2986
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2987* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2988 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2990* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2993
2995f70e 2994* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2995 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2997* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2998 support Unicode 3.1.
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3000* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3001 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3002
69d5f925 3003* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3004
69d5f925 3005* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3007 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3008
3009* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3010 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3011
3012* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3013 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3015* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3017Version 2.2.3
3018
1746f2b0 3019* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3020 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3021 in float, double, and long double format.
3022
f128331c 3023* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3024 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3025 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 3026
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3027* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3028 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3029 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3030 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3031
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3032* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3033 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3034 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3035
3036* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3037 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3038
3039* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3040 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3041
3042* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3043 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3044 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3045
3046* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3047 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3049* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3050 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3051
3052* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3054Version 2.2.2
3055
464d97ec 3056* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3057 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3058 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3059 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3060 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3061 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3062 other headers.
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3063
3064* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3065 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3066
3067* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3068 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3069 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3070 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3071
3072* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3073 locales. While
3074
3075 locale -a
3076
3077 only lists the names of the supported locales
3078
3079 locale -a --verbose
3080
3081 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3082 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
306eeae5 3083\f
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3084Version 2.2.1
3085
3086* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3087 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3088 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3089 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3090 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3091
3092 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3093
3094 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3095
3096 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3097
3098* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3099 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3100 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3101
3102* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3103 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3104
3105* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3106 changed from the default "C" locale.
3107
3108* The usual bug fixes.
d2defdc4 3109\f
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3110Version 2.2
3111
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3112* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3113 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3114 is in progress.
3115
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3116* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3117
793bd4d9 3118* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3120 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3121 obviously requires a database library being available.
3122
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3123* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3124
abbffdf9 3125* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 3126
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3127* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3128 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3129
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3130* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3131
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3132* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3133 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3134 and Mark Kettenis.
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3135
3136 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3137 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3138 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3139
a00c3ca9 3140 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3141 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3142
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3143* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3144 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3145 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3146
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3147* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3148 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3149 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3151
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3152 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3153 structures for the wide character tables.
3154
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3155* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3156
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3157* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3158
3159* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3160
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3161* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3162 and Yutaka Niibe.
3163
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3164* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3165
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3166* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3167
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3168* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3169
3170* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3171
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3172* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3173
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3174* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3175 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3176 implemented for Linux.
3177
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3178* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3179 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3180 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3181 versions.
3182
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3183* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3184 Masahide Washizawa.
3185
8f3f1e09 3186* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3187\f
3188Version 2.1.3
3189
3190* bug fixes
3191
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3192\f
3193Version 2.1.2
3194
3195* bug fixes
3196
28f540f4 3197\f
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3198Version 2.1.1
3199
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3200* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3201
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3202* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3203
407d26b7 3204* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3205
3206* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3207
407d26b7 3208* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3209
407d26b7 3210* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3211
3212* Update timezone data files.
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3214* lots of charmaps corrections
3215
3216* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3217
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3219Version 2.1
3220
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3221* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3222 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3223 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3224 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3225 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3226 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3227
c84142e8 3228* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3229 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3230
1fb05e3d 3231* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3232 symbol level.
3233
3234* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3235 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3236
cbdee279 3237* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3238
3239* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3240 numbers.
377a515b 3241
cbdee279 3242* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3243
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3244* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3245 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3246
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3247* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3248 library.
3249
e61abf83 3250* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3251 functions from ISO C 9X.
3252
3253* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3254 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3255
a5a0310d 3256* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3257
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3258* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3259
3260* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3261
440d13e2 3262* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3263
3264* Optimized string functions have been added.
3265
3266* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3267
3268* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3270* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3271 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3272
3273 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3274 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3275
0dee6738 3276 user system wall
48244d09 3277
0dee6738 3278 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3279
0dee6738 3280 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3281
0dee6738 3282 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3284 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3285
3286 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3287
3288 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3290 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3291 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3292 horribly slow.
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3294 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3295 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3296
3297* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3298
3299* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3300
3301* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3302 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3303
3304* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3306* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3307 Bambrough.
3308
3309* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3310 latest draft standards.
3311
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3312* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3313
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3314* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3315~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3318argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3319argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3320argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3321argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3322argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3323argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3324argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3325argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3326argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3327argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3328authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3329authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3330authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3331backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3332backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3333backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3334cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3335cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3336cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3337cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3338cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3339cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3340capget NEW: kernel
3341capset NEW: kernel
3342carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3343cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3344cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3345casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3346casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3347casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3348casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3349casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3350casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3351catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3352catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3353catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3354catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3355catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3356catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3358ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3359ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3360ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3361ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3362ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3363ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3364cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3365cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3366cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3367cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3368cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3369cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3370clearerr_locked REMOVED
3371clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3372clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3373clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3374clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3375clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3376clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3377clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3378conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3379conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3380conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3381cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3382cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3383cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3384cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3385cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3386cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3387creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3388crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3389creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3390creat64 NEW: LFS
3391csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3392csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3393csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3394csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3395csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3396csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3397csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3398csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3399csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3400ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3401ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3402ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3403ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3404ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3405ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3407ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3408endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3409exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3410exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3411exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3412exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3413exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3414exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3415fattach NEW: STREAMS
3416fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3417fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3418fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3419fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3420feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3421fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3422fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3423fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3424feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3425feof_locked REMOVED
3426feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3427ferror_locked REMOVED
3428fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3429fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3430fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3431fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3432feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3433fflush_locked REMOVED
3434ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3435ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3436fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3437fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3438fileno_locked REMOVED
3439fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3440fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3441fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3442fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3443fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3444fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3445fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3446fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3447fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3448fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3449fopen64 NEW: LFS
3450fputc_locked REMOVED
3451fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3452fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3453freopen64 NEW: LFS
3454fseeko NEW: Unix98
3455fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3456fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3457fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3458fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3459ftello NEW: Unix98
3460ftello64 NEW: LFS
3461ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3462ftw64 NEW: LFS
3463fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3464gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3465gamma_r REMOVED
3466gammaf_r REMOVED
3467gammal_r REMOVED
3468getchar_locked REMOVED
3469getdate NEW: Unix98
3470getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3471getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3472getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3473getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3476getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3477getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3478getutxent NEW: Unix98
3479getutxid NEW: Unix98
3480getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3481glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3482globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3483gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3484gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3485grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
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3487iconv NEW: iconv
3488iconv_close NEW: iconv
3489iconv_open NEW: iconv
3490if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3491if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3492if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3493if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3494in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3495in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3496inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3497isastream NEW: STREAMS
3498iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3499key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3500key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3501key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3502key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3503key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3504key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3505key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3506key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3507key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3509llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3510llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3511llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3512llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3513llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3514log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3515log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3516log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3517lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3518lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3519lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3520lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3521lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3522lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3523lseek64 NEW: LFS
3524makecontext NEW: Unix98
3525mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3526mmap64 NEW: LFS
3527moncontrol REMOVED
3528modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3529nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3530nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3531nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3532nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3533nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3534nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3535netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3536netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3538nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3539nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3540nftw NEW: Unix98
3541nftw64 NEW: LFS
3542open64 NEW: LFS
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3544pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3545pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3546pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3547pread NEW: Unix98
3548pread64 NEW: LFS
3549printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3550printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3551profil_counter REMOVED
3552pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3553pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3554ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3555ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3556putc_locked REMOVED
3557putchar_locked REMOVED
3558putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3559putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3560putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
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3563pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3564readdir64 NEW: LFS
3565readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3566remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3567remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3568remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3569round NEW: ISO C 9x
3570roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3571roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3572rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3573scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3574scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3575scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3576scandir64 NEW: LFS
3577sendfile NEW: kernel
3578setcontext NEW: Unix98
3579setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3580setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3582sigignore NEW: Unix98
3583sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3584sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3585sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3586sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3587sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3588sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3589sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3590sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3591statfs64 NEW: LFS
3592statvfs NEW: Unix98
3593statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3594strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3595strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3596strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3597strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3598svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3599svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3600svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3601swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3602tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3603tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3604tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3605tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3606tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3607tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3608trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3609truncate64 NEW: LFS
3610truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3611truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3612umount2 NEW: kernel
3613unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3614updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3615user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3616utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3617versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3618versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3619waitid NEW: Unix98
3620wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3621wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3622wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3623wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3624wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3625wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3626wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3627wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3628wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3629wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3630write_profiling REMOVED
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3631xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3632xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3633xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3634xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3635xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3636xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3637xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3638xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3639xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3640xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3641xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3642xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3643xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3644xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3645xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3646~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3648Version 2.0.6
3649
3650* more bug fixes
3651
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3653Version 2.0.5
3654
3655* more bug fixes
3656
3657* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3658
3659* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3660
3661* rewrite of cbrt function
3662
3663* update of timezone data
3664\f
3665Version 2.0.4
3666
3667* more bug fixes
3668\f
3669Version 2.0.3
3670
3671* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3672\f
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3673Version 2.0.2
3674
3675* more bug fixes
3676
3677* add atoll function
3678
3679* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3680
3681* fix math functions
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3683Version 2.0.1
3684
3685* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3686
3687* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3688
3689* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3690 the ELF dynamic loader.
3691
3692* support for parallel builds is improved
3693\f
40a4b79f 3694Version 2.0
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3696* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3697 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3698 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3699
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3700* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3701 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3702 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3703 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3704 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3705 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3706 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3707 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3708 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3709 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3710 files in the ELF format.
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3711
3712* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3713 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3714
3715* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3716 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3717 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3718 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3719 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3720 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3721 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3722 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3723 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3724 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3725 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3727* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3728 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3729 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3730 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3731 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3732
f7eac6eb 3733* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3734 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3735 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3736 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3737 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3738
3739* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3741* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3742 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3743 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3744 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3745 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3746 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3747 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3748 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3749 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3750
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3751* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3752 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3753 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3754
3755* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3756 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3757 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3758
3759* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3760 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3761 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3762 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3763
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3764* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3765 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3766 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3767
3768* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3769 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3770 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3771
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3772* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3773 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3774
f7eac6eb 3775* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3776 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3777 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3778 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3779
3780* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3781 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3782 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3783
71733723 3784* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3785 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3786 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3787 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3788 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3789 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3790 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3791 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3792
3793* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3794 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3795 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3796 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3797 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3798 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3799 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3800
3801* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3802 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3803 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3804 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3805 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3806 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3807
3808* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3809 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3810
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3811* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3812 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3813 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3815* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3816
3817* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3818 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3819 their use is discouraged.
3820
3821* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3822 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3824* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3825 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3826
3827* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3828 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3829
3830* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3831 see <dirent.h>.
3832
3833* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3834 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3835 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3836 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3837 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3838
3839* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3840 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3841 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3842 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3843
3844* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3845 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3846
3847* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3848 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3849 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3850 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3851 number generator.
3852
3853* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3854 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3855
3856* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3857 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3858
71733723 3859* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3860 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3861 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3862 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 3863
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3864* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3865
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3866* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3867 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3868 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3869
3870* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3871 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 3872
c709e372 3873* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3874 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3875 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3876 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3877
3878* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3879 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3880 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3881 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3882 programs already written to use it.)
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3883
3884* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3885 constants.
3886
3887* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3888 with 4.4 BSD.
3889
3890* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3891 a given effective group ID.
3892
3893* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3894 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3895 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3896 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3897
3898* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3899 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3900 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3901 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3902 doing the same thing.
3903
3904* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3905 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3906
3907* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3908 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3909
3910* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3911
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3912* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3913 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3914 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3915 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3916 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3917
3918* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3919 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3920
3921* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3922 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3923 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3924 function.
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3925
3926* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3927
3928* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3929 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3930 strings.
3931
3932* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3933 and writing the utmp file.
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3934
3935* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3936 Thorsten Kukuk.
3937
3938* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3939 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3940 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3941
3942* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3943 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3944
3945* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3946 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3947 specification.
3948
3949* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3950 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3951 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3952 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3953
3954* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3955 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3956 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3957
3958* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3959 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3960 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3961 expression matcher.
3962
3963* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3964 functionality.
3965
3966* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3967 by Ulrich Drepper.
3968
3969* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3970
3971* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3972 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3973 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3975Version 1.09
3976
3977* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3978
3979* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3980 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3981
3982* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3983 want to put themselves in the background.
3984
3985* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3986 run without an operating system.
3987
3988* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3989 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3990
3991* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3992 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3993
3994* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3995
3996* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3997 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3998 have YP (aka NIS).
3999
4000* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4001 conventions.
4002
4003* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4004 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4005\f
4006Version 1.08
4007
4008* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4009 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4010 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4011
4012* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4013 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4014
4015* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4016 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4017
4018* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4019
4020* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4021
4022* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4023 compatibility.
4024
4025* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4026 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4027 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4028
4029* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4030
4031* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4032 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4033 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4034
4035* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4036 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4037 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4038 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4039 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4040 on a block).
4041
4042* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4043 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4044 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4045 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4046 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4047 cross-compiler.
4048
4049* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4050 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4051\f
4052Version 1.07
4053
4054* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4055 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4056
4057* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4058 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4059 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4060
4061* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4062 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4063 address of the last character written.
4064
4065* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4066 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4067
4068* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4069 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4070
4071* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4072 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4073 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4074 you dereference this pointer.
4075
4076* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4077 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4078
4079* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4080 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4081 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4082 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4083
4084* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4085 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4086 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4087 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4088\f
4089Version 1.06
4090
4091* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4092 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4093 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4094 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4095 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4096
4097* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4098
4099* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4100
4101* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4102 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4103
4104* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4105 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4106
4107* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4108 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4109
4110* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4111 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4112 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4113 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4114 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4115
4116* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4117 to the error code in `errno'.
4118
4119* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4120 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4121 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4122 malloc'd string.
4123
4124* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4125 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4126 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4127
4128* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4129 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4131Version 1.05
4132
4133* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4134 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4135 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4136
4137* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4138 characters.
4139
4140* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4141 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4142
4143* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
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4145Version 1.04
4146
4147* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4148 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4149 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4150 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4151
4152* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4153 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4154 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4155
4156* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4157 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4158
4159* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4160 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4161 made itself into a shared library.
4162
4163* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4164 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4165
4166* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4167 with limited length.
4168
4169* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4170
4171* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4172
4173* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4174
4175* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4176 function for traversing a directory tree.
4177
4178* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4179 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4180 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4181 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4182
4183* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4184 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4185
4186* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4187
4188* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4189 things to your strings.
4190
4191* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4192
4193* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4194 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4195 supporting those systems.
4196
4197* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4198 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4199 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4200 configuration files.
4201
4202* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4203 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4204
4205* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4206 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4207 in <strings.h>.)
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4208
4209* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4210 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4211 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4212 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4213 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4214 required storage is not available.
4215
4216* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4217 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4218
4219* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4220 latest files released from Berkeley.
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4223Copyright information:
4224
58b587c1 4225Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4226
4227 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4228 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4229 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4230 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4231
4232 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4233 of this document, or of portions of it,
4234 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4235 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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