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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 2.26
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10* Unicode 9.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
11 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 9.0.0, using
12 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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14* The rpcgen, librpcsvc and related headers will only be built and
15 installed when glibc is configured with --enable-obsolete-rpc.
16 This allows alternative RPC implementations, like TIRPC, to be used
17 by default. Applications needing features missing from TIRPC should
18 consider the rpcsvc-proto project developed by Thorsten Kukuk (SUSE).
19
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20* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
21 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
22 default. Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which
23 additionally support IPv6, are available from
24 <https://github.com/thkukuk/libnss_{compat,nis,nisplus}>.
25
26* The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is deprecated. By default, a
27 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not
28 headers or development libraries.
29
30 Only a few NIS-related programs require this library.
31 A replacement implementation based on TIRPC is available from
32 <https://github.com/thkukuk/libnsl>. Like the replacement NIS(+)
33 name service modules, the replacement supports IPv6, and it can be
34 coinstalled with the compatibility shared library from glibc.
35
36* New configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's
37 headers, and the NIS(+) name service modules, to be built and
38 installed. This option may be removed in a future release.
39
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40* Extensive new collation tests for Hungarian locales based on
41 "The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" and the work of
42 Egmont Koblinger (Bug 18934).
43
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44* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
45 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
46
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47Security related changes:
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49 [Add security related changes here]
50
51The following bugs are resolved with this release:
52
53 [The release manager will add the list generated by
54 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
55
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57Version 2.25
58
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59* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
60 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
61 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
62 Library.
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64* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
65 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 66 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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67 the GNU C Library.
68
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69* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
70 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
71 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
72 the GNU C Library.
73
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74* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
75 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
76 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
77 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
78 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
79 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
80 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
81 will not.
82
83 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
84 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
85 many years.
86
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87* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
88 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
89 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
90
91 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
92 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
93 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
94 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
95 problem.
96
ec94343f 97* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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98 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
99 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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101* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
102 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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103 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
104 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
105 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
106 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
107 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
108 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
109 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
110 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
111 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
112 WINT_WIDTH.
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114* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
115
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116 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
117
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118 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
119 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
120 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 121
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122 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
123 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
124
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125 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
126 fminmagf, fminmagl.
127
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128 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
129
29cb9293 130 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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132 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
133 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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135 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
136
eb3c12c7 137 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 138 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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140* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
141 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
142
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143* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
144 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
145 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
146
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147* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
148 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
149 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
150 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
151 effects of the memory clear).
152
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153* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
154 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
155 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
156 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
157
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158* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
159 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
160 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
161 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
162 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
163 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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165* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
166 have been added.
167
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168* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
169 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
170 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
171 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
172 as large as several megabytes.
173
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174* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
175 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
176 been removed.
177
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178* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
179 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
180 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
181 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
182 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
183 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
184 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
185
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186* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
187 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
188 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
189 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
190
099191b1 191* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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192 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
193 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
194 Internet.
195
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196* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
197 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
198 They were already unimplemented.
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200* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
201 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
202 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
203 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
204
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205* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
206 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
207 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
208 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
209 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
210
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211* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
212 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
213 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
214 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
215 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
216
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217* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
218 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
219 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
220 did not reflect that.
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222* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
223 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
224 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
225 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
226 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
227 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
228 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
229 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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231* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
232 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
233 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
234 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
235
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236* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
237 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
238 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
239 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
240
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241* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
242 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
243 guarantees.
244
245* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
246 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
247 make state changes.
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249Security related changes:
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fc82b0a2 251* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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252 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
253 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
254 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 255 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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257* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
258 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
259 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
260 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
261 (CVE-2015-5180)
262
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263The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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265 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
266 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
267 protector-all
268 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
269 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
270 before it started waiting
271 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
272 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
273 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
274 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
275 wrong type
276 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
277 library linked with pthread
278 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
279 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
280 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
281 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
282 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
283 after being __libc_memalign()'d
284 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
285 when it shouldnt
286 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
287 not
288 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
289 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
290 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
291 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
292 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
293 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
294 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
295 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
296 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
297 termination
298 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
299 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
300 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
301 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
302 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
303 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
304 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
305 causes a segmentation fault
306 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
307 linking
308 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
309 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
310 uninitialized GOT
311 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
312 versions
313 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
314 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
315 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
316 is always true.
317 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
318 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
319 modes
320 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
321 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
322 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
323 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
324 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
325 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
326 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
327 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
328 libpthread.a
329 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
330 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
331 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
332 _res_hconf
333 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
334 information.
335 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
336 penalty
337 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
338 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
339 cause transition penalty
340 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
341 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
342 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
343 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
344 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
345 mcount.oS)
346 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
347 Checking
348 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
349 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
350 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
351 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
352 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
353 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
354 multi-arch
355 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
356 (RES_USEBSTRING)
357 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
358 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
359 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
360 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
361 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
362 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
363 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
364 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
365 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
366 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
367 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
368 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
369 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
370 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
371 glibc
372 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
373 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
374 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
375 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
376 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
377 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
378 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
379 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
380 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
381 U+20AC), not same as GBK
382 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
383 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
384 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
385 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
386 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
387 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
388 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
389 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
390 RES_USE_INET6
391 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
392 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
393 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
394 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
395 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
396 wrong condition
397 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
398 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
399 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
400 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
401 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
402 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
403 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
404 clang
405 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
406 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
407 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
408 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
409 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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413* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
414 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
415 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
416 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
417 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
418 architectures.
419
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420* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
421 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
422 been included in previous releases.
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424* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
425 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
426
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427* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
428 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
429 instead of “union wait”.
430
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431* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
432 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
433 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
434 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
435 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
436 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
437 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
438
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439* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
440 API.
441
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442* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
443 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
444 drop it.
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446* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
447 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
448 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
449 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
450 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
451 extensions.
452
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455* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
456 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
457 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
458
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459* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
460 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
461 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
462 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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464* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
465 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
466 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
467
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468* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
469 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
470 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
471
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472* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
473 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
474 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
475 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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479 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
480 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
481 of MS-DOS.
482 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
483 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
484 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
485 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
486 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
487 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
488 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
489 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
490 CLDR data
491 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
492 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
493 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
494 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
495 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
496 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
497 romanisation
498 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
499 and +/-
500 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
501 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
502 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
503 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
504 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
505 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
506 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
507 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
508 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
509 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
510 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
511 all locales
512 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
513 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
514 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
515 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
516 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
517 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
518 execute
519 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
520 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
521 -Wsystem-headers
522 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
523 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
524 Romanian locale data
525 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
526 symbol
527 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
528 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
529 language
530 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
531 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
532 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
533 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
534 machine
535 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
536 description
537 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
538 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
539 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
540 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
541 when using RTLD_NEXT
542 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
543 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
544 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
545 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
546 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
547 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
548 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
549 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
550 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
551 Excavator core
552 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
553 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
554 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
555 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
556 double range
557 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
558 part zero incorrect
559 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
560 equality tests
561 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
562 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
563 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
564 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
565 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
566 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
567 glibc-2.22
568 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
569 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
570 'tst-numeric.c'
571 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
572 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
573 low part
574 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
575 result
576 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
577 unaligned stack
578 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
579 pointers and lengths in error-case.
580 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
581 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
582 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
583 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
584 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
585 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
586 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
587 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
588 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
589 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
590 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
591 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
592 modes
593 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
594 server addresses
595 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
596 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
597 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
598 response to getaddrinfo
599 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
600 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
601 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
602 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
603 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
604 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
605 sometimes incorrect
606 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
607 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
608 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
609 record types
610 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
611 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
612 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
613 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
614 (CVE-2016-3075)
615 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
616 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
617 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
618 resolving symbols
619 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
620 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
621 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
622 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
623 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
624 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
625 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
626 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
627 gethosts
628 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
629 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
630 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
631 (CVE-2016-3706)
632 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
633 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
634 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
635 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
636 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
637 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
638 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
639 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
640 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
641 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
642 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
643 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
644 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
645 executable
646 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
647 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
648 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
649 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
650 XPG3
651 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
652 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
653 (CVE-2016-4429)
654 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
655 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
656 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
657 AS not supporting AVX512
658 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
659 sNaN argument
660 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
661 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
662 argument
663 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
664 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
665 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
666 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
667 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
668 eax=0x80000001
669 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
670 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
671 subnormals
672 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
673 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
674 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
675 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
676 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
677 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
678 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
679 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
680 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
681 input
682 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
683 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
684 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
685 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
686 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
687 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
688 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
689 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
690 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
691 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
692 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
693 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
694 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
695 double rounding
696 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
697 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
698 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
699 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
700 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
701 (Only arm/linux)
702 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
703 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
704 fallbacks
705 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
706 "invalid" exceptions
707 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
708 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
709 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
710 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
711 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
712 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
713 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
714 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
715 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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719* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
720 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
721 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
722 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
723 89, 16061, and 18568.
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725* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
726 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
727 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
728 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
729 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
730 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
731 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
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733* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
734 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
735 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
736
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737* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
738 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
739 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
740 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
741 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
742 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
743 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
744
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745* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
746 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
747 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
748 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
749 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 750 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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751 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
752 Ericsson.)
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754* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
755 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
756 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
757 independent of the GNU C Library.
758
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759* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
760 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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762* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
763 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
764 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
765 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
766 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
767 Linux kernel.
768
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770 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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772* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
773 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
774 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
775 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
776 defining their own copy.
777
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778* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
779 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
780 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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782Security related changes:
783
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784* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
785 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
786
787* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
788 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
789 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
790 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
791 (CVE-2015-8777)
792
793* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
794 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
795
796* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
797 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
798
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799* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
800 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 801 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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803* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
804 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
805 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
806 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
807 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
808 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
809 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
810 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
811 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
812 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
813 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
814 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
815 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
816
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819 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
820 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
821 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
822 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
823 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
824 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
825 use `mkstemp'
826 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
827 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
828 overflow/underflow errors
829 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
830 overflow/underflow
831 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
832 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
833 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
834 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
835 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
836 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
837 are not contiguous
838 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
839 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
840 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
841 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
842 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
843 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
844 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
845 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
846 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
847 all exceptions
848 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
849 arguments
850 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
851 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
852 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
853 should include
854 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
855 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
856 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
857 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
858 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
859 GNU/Linux
860 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
861 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
862 arguments
863 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
864 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
865 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
866 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
867 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
868 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
869 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
870 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
871 rounding results
872 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
873 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
874 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
875 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
876 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
877 fails
878 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
879 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
880 block boundary
881 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
882 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
883 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
884 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
885 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
886 4.7?
887 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
888 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
889 (related to lock elision)
890 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
891 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
892 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
893 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
894 (CVE-2015-8779)
895 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
896 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
897 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
898 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
899 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
900 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
901 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
902 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
903 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
904 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
905 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
906 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
907 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
908 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
909 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
910 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
911 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
912 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
913 contains a vector instruction exception.
914 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
915 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
916 locales
917 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
918 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
919 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
920 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
921 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
922 missing break ?
923 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
924 32bit processes
925 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
926 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
927 infinity
928 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
929 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
930 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
931 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
932 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
933 be forced unloaded
934 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
935 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
936 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
937 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
938 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
939 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
940 statically too large
941 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
942 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
943 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
944 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
945 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
946 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
947 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
948 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
949 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
950 FUTEX_SHARED
951 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
952 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
953 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
954 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
955 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
956 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
957 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
958 opendir()
959 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
960 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
961 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
962 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
963 signgam
964 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
965 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
966 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
967 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
968 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
969 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
970 dependencies
971 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
972 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
973 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
974 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
975 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
976 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
977 (CVE-2015-8776)
978 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
979 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
980 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
981 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
982 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
983 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
984 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
985 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
986 contention
987 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
988 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
989 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
990 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
991 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
992 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
993 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
994 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
995 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
996 rounding modes
997 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
998 ILP32
999 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1000 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1001 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1002 threshold
1003 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1004 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1005 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1006 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1007 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1008 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1009 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1010 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1011 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1012 pthread_setaffinity_np
1013 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1014 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1015 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1016 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1017 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1018 prelink
1019 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1020 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1021 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1022 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1023 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1024 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1025 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1026 bits/mathcalls.h
1027 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1028 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1029 for C99-based standards
1030 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1031 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1032 math-only
1033 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1034 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1035 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1036 disabled
1037 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1038 "inexact" exceptions
1039 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1040 arguments
1041 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1042 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1043 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1044 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1045 rules
1046 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1047 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1048 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1049 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1050 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1051 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1052 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1053 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1054 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1055 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1056 from 32bit
1057 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1058 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1059 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1060 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1061 subnormals
1062 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1063 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1064 error on 32-bit architectures
1065 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1066 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1067 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1068 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1069 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1070 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1071 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1072 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1073 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1074 -Os
1075 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1076 CPU's.
1077 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1078 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1079 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1080 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1081 architectures
1082 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1084Version 2.22
1085
1086* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1087
3df5cd98 1088 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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1089 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1090 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1091 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1092 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1093 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1094 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1095 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1096 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1097 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1098 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1099 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1100 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1101 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1102 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1103 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1104 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1105 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1106 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1107 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 1108
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1109* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1110 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1111
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1112* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1113 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1114 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1115 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1116 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1117 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1119* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1120 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1121 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1122 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1123 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1124
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1125* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1126 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1127 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1128
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1129* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1130 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1131 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1132 17998.
1133
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1134* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1135 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1136 condition in some applications.
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1137
1138* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1139 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1140 pow, powf.
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1141 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1142 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1143 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1144 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1145 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1146
1147* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1148 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1149 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1150 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1151
1152* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1153 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1154 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1155
1156* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1157 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1158
1159* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1160 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1161 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1162
a03ba363 1163 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1164 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1165 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1167Version 2.21
1168
1169* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1170
042e1521 1171 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1172 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1173 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1174 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1175 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1176 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1177 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1178 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1179 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1180 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1181 17892.
1182
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1183* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1184 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1185 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1186 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1187 intended.
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1189* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1190 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1191 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1192 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1193 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1194 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
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1196* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1197
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1198* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1199 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1200 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
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1202* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1203 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1204 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1205 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1206 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1207 effects being visible outside transactions.
1208
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1209* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1210 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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1212* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1213
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1214* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1215 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1216 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1217 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1218 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
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1220* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1221 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1222
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1223* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1224 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1225 format.
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1227* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1228 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1229 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1230
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1231* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1232 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1233
0d560bbf 1234* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1235
1236* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1237 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1238 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1239 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1240
1241* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1242 with newer versions of bison.
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1243
1244* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1245 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1246 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1247 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1248 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1249 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1250 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1251 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1252 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1253 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1254 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1255 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1256 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1257
1258 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1259 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1260 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1261 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1262 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1264Version 2.20
1265
1266* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1267
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1268 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1269 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1270 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1271 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1272 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1273 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1274 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1275 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1276 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1277 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1278 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1279 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1280 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1281 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1282 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1283
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SL
1284* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1285 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1286 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1287 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1288 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1289 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
1290 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1291 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1292 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1293 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1294
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1295* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1296 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1297 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1298 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1299 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1300
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1301* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1302
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1303* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1304 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1305
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1306* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1307 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1308 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1309 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1310 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1311 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1312
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1313* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1314 from ports.
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1315
1316* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1317 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1318 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1319 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1320 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1321 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1322 test macros defined.
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1323
1324* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
1325
1326* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1327 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1328 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1329 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1330 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1331 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1332 is not built.
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1333
1334* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1335 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1336 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1337 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1338 invocation.
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JM
1339
1340* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1341 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1342 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1343
1344* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1345 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1346 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1347 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1348
1349* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1350 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1351 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1352 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1353 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1354 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1355 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1356 additional checks.
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1357
1358* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1359 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1360 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1361 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1362 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1363 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1364 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1365 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1366 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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FW
1367
1368* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1369 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1370 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1371 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1372 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1373 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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FW
1374
1375* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1376 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1377 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1378 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1380Version 2.19
1381
1382* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1383
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1384 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1385 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1386 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1387 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1388 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1389 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1390 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1391 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1392 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1393 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1394 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1395 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1396 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1397 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1398 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1399 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1400 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1401 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1402
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1403* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1404 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1405
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1406* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1407 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1408 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1409 extension which uses __block.
1410
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SP
1411* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1412 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1413 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1414 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1415 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1416
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SP
1417* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1418 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1419 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1420 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1421 if malloc fails.
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1422
1423* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1424 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1425 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1426 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1427 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
1428
1429* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1430 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1431 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1432
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1433* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1434 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1435 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1436 #15856, #15857).
1437
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SP
1438* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1439 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1440
82bab04b 1441* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1442 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 1443
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1444* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1445
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1446* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1447 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1448
3e181dda 1449* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1450
8a05c252
CL
1451* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1452
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JM
1453* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1454 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1455 for which the C library was built.
1456
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1457* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1458 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1459 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1460 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1461 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1462 in the following circumstances:
1463
1464 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1465
1466 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1467 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1468
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JM
1469* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1470 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1471
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1472* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1473 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1474
ffb89e53
AO
1475* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1476
5d29ccce
SP
1477* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1478 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1479
8b7d57cd 1480* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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JM
1481
1482* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1483
fd712ef3 1484* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1485
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JM
1486* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1487 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1488 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1489 disable some of those declarations.
1490
7011c262 1491* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
1492 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1493 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
1494
1495* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1496 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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AK
1497
1498* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1499 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1500 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1501 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1502 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1503 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1504 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1505 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1506 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1507 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1508 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1509 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1510 require recompilation.
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1512Version 2.18
1513
1514* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1515
17db6e8d 1516 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
1517 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1518 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
1519 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1520 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1521 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1522 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1523 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1524 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1525 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1526 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1527 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1528 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1529 15755, 15759.
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1530
1531* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1532 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1533 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1534 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1535 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1536 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1537
5b535ac4
AS
1538* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1539 #15078).
1540
1cef1b19
AS
1541* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1542 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1543
55e4107b
SP
1544* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1545 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1546 destructor calls to glibc.
1547
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SP
1548* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1549 output.
1550
1551* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1552 non-x86 architectures.
1553
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1554* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1555
1556* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1557
1558* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1559 Richard Henderson.
1560
1561* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1562
1563* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1564 Richard Henderson.
1565
1566* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1567 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1568
8cfdb7e0
SP
1569* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1570
57267616
TS
1571* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1572 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 1573
c204ab28
SP
1574* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1575 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 1576
0748546f
PE
1577* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1578 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1579 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1580
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SP
1581* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1582 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1583 attributes of a process.
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1584
1585* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1586 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1587 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1588 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1589 mutexes.
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RA
1590
1591* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1592 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1593
1594* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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1595\f
1596Version 2.17
1597
1598* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1599
80ceeaee 1600 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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1601 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1602 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1603 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1604 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1605 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1606 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1607 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1608 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1609 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1610 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1611 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1612 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1613 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1614 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 1615
95b4f1b6
SE
1616* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1617
14bc93a9
JL
1618* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1619 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 1620
b54eb3cb
JM
1621* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1622 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1623
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MS
1624* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1625
08f43f9b
AK
1626* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1627 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1628 zEnterprise z196.
1629 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1630
84b3fd84
FW
1631* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1632 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1633 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1634
815e6fa3
GB
1635* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1636 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1637
400726de
MK
1638* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1639 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1640
7aab07e4 1641* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 1642 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 1643
15d0da8c
WS
1644* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1645 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1646
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1647* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
1648 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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RM
1649 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1650 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 1651
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JM
1652* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1653 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1654
85429b1a 1655* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 1656 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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1657 default.
1658
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JM
1659* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1660 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1661 information in --help and --version output.
1662
050af9c4
SP
1663* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1664 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1665 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1666
89a3ad0b
AO
1667* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
1668 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1669 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1670 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1671 when the mode is enabled.
1672
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RM
1673* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
1674 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1675 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1676 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1677 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1678 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1679 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 1680
d9286582
NK
1681* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
1682 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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1683\f
1684Version 2.16
1685
1686* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1687
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1688 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1689 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1690 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1691 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1692 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1693 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1694 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1695 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1696 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1697 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1698 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1699 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1700 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1701 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1702 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1703 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1704 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1705 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1706 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1707 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1708 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1709 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1710 14277, 14278.
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1713 configuring glibc with:
1714 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1715 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1716 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1717
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1719
1720 + define static_assert
1721
1722 + do not declare gets
1723
1724 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1725
1726 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1727 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1728 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1729 implementation.
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1733 + uchar.h support added
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1736
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1738
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1741* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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1743* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1746* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1749* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1750 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1751 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1752 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1753 existing applications.
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21708942 1755* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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1757 before 2.6.
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1760 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1761 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1762
83678f76 1763* New locales: mag_IN
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1765* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1766 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1767 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1768 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1769 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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1771* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1772
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1774 and Will Schmidt.
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1776* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1777
1778* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1779 without a previously built glibc.
1780
1781* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1782 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1783
1784* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1785 now supported for ARM processors.
1786
1787* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1788 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1789 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1790
1791* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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1793* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1794 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1795 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1796 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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1798* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1799 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1800 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1801 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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1803* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1804 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1805 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1806 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1807 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1808
1809* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1810 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1811 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1812 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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1817
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1818 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1819 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1820 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1821 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1822 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1823 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1824 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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1827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1829* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1830 and support for initgroups lookups.
1831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1833* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1834 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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1836* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1837 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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1840 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 1841 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 1842
d42964a0 1843* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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1845
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1847 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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1849
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1850* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1853* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1856* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
1857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1859* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
1860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1862* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
1863 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1864
1865* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
1866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1868* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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1870* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
1871 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1873* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
1874 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 1876* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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1881
553149f6 1882 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 1883 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 1884 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 1885 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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1887 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
1888 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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1890 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 1891 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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1894 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
1895 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 1896 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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1898 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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1900 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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1901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1902
c6489db3 1903* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 1904 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 1905
72d1dddb 1906* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 1907 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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1909* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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1911* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
1912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1914* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
1915 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
1916 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
1917 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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1920
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1922
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1923 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
1924 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
1925 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
1926 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
1927 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 1928
10b3bedc 1929* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 1930
ac2b484c 1931* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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1933* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
1934 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 1935 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1937Version 2.12
1938
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1940
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1941 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
1942 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
1943 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
1944 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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1945 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
1946 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
1947 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 1948 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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1950* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 1951
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1953
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1954* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
1955
1956* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
1957 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
1958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1959
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1961 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
1962 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
1963 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
1964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1965
d36b9613 1966* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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1969
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1971
1972 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
1973 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
1974 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
1975 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
1976 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
1977 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
1978
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1980 mkostemps64
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1982
24ab9c76 1983* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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1985
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1986* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
1987 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1988
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1989* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
1990
0122f28e 1991* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 1992 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 1993 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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1995
9d36a6c4 1996 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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1998
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1999* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2000 strstr, strcasestr.
2001 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2002
2003* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2004 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2005
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2006* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2007 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2008
2009* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2011
2012* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2013 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2014 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2015 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2016 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2017 necessity is every process again.
2018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2019
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2021 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2022
2023* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2024 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2025
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2026* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2027 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2029
9dd5b8a1 2030* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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2033
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2035
2036 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2037 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2038 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2039 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2040 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2041
bb066545 2042* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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2043 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2044
425ce2ed 2045* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2047
1fdd89a7 2048* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2049 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2052 now in POSIX.
77db439e 2053
1f04d005 2054* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 2055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2057* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2059
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2060* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2061 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2062
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2063* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2064 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2065
2066* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2067 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2068 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2069
735be400 2070* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 2071
84aa52d7 2072* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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2074
2075* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2076 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2078
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2079* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2080 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2081
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2083 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2084 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2085 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2086 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2087 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2090
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2092
2093 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2094 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2095 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2096 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2097 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2098
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2101
2102* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2103 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2105* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2106 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2108* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2109 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2111
2112* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2113 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2117* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 2118 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2121 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2122 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2124
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2126 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2129 Sinhala)
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2132* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2135
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2137
2138 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2139 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2140 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2141 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2142 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2143 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2144 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2145
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2150* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2151 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2152
2153* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2154
2155* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2157
2158* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2160
2161* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2162 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2163 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2164
2165* Faster memset for x86-64.
2166 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2167
2168* Faster memcpy on x86.
2169 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2170
2171* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2174* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2175 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2178
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2180
2181 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2182 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2183 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2184 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2185 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2186
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2187* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2188 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2189
2190* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2191
2192* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2193 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2194 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2195
2196* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2197 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2198
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2201
2202* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2203
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2205 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2206
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2208 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2209
2210* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2211 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2212
2213* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2214
2215* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2218* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2219 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2220 yo_NG.
2221
2222+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2223 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2228
2229 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2230 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2231 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2232 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2233 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2234 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2235 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2236 4702, 4858
2237
bce20b9a 2238* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2241
b21fa963 2242* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2245
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2247
2248 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2249 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2250 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2251 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2252 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2253 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2254 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2255 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2256 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2257
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2260 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2263 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2264
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2267* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2269* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2270 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2271 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 2272 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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2274
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2277 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2278 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2279
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2281 Ulrich Drepper.
2282
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2284
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2285* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2286 Ulrich Drepper.
2287
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2288* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2289
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2290* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2291 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2294
2295* More overflow detection functions.
2296
2297* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2298 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2300 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2301 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2302 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2303 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2304 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2305 by Masahide Washizawa.
2306
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2308 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2310* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2311 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2312 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2313 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2315* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2316 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2317
2318* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2319
2320* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2321 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2322 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2323
2324* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2325 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2326
2327* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2328 for compatibility with some other systems.
2329
2330* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2332Version 2.3.6
2333
2334* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2335
2336 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2337 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2338 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2339 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2340 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2341 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2342
2343 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2344
2345* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2346
2347* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2349Version 2.3.5
2350
2351* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2352
2353 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2354 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2355 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2356 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2357
2358 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2360Version 2.3.4
2361
2362* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2363 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2364
2365* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2366 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2367 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2368
2369* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2370 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2371
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2373 efficiently.
2374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2375
2376* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2377 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2378 handling data.
2379
2380* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2381 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 2382 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2384* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2385 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2386
2387* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2388 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2389 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2390 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2391
2392* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2393 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2394 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2395 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2396
2397* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2398 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2399 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2400 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2401 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2404
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2405* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2406 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2407
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2408* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2409 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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2413
2414* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2415 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2417* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2418 by Roland McGrath.
2419
c5af724c 2420* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2422
2423* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2424 RFC 3484.
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2426Version 2.3.2
2427
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2428* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2429 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2430 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2431 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2432 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2433 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2434 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2435 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2436 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2437
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2438* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2439 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2440 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2441
2442* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2444* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2445 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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2447* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2448 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2449
52a16e58 2450* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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2452* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2453 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2455* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2456 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2457 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2458 of weak definition in ld.so.
2459
2460* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2461 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2462
2463* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2464 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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2469 charsets.
2470
2471* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2472 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 2474* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2475 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2477* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2478 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2479
bb0ec5bd 2480* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2481 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2482 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2484* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2485 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2486
bb0ec5bd 2487* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2488 implementation of regex.
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2490* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2491 Unicode 3.2.
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2493* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2494 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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2496* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2497 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2498 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2500* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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2502
2503* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2504 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2505 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2507* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2508 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2510* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2511 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2512 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2514* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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2517
2518* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2519 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2520
2521* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2522 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2525
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2526* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2527 128-bit long double format.
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2529* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2530 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2531
ad2e4f18 2532* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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2535
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2537 as well.
2538
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2539* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2540 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2542* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2544Version 2.2.4
2545
2995f70e 2546* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2547 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2549* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2550 support Unicode 3.1.
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2552* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2553 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 2555* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2556
69d5f925 2557* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2559 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2560
2561* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2562 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2563
2564* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2565 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2567* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2570
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2573 in float, double, and long double format.
2574
f128331c 2575* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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2577 128-bit long double format.
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2579* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2580 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2581 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2582 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2583
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2584* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2585 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2586 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2587
2588* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2589 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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2590
2591* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2592 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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2593
2594* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2595 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2596 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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2597
2598* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2599 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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2601* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2602 of functions for Linux/x86.
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2604* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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2606Version 2.2.2
2607
464d97ec 2608* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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2609 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2610 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2611 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2612 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2613 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2614 other headers.
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2615
2616* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2617 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2618
2619* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2620 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2621 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2622 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2623
2624* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2625 locales. While
2626
2627 locale -a
2628
2629 only lists the names of the supported locales
2630
2631 locale -a --verbose
2632
2633 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2634 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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2636Version 2.2.1
2637
2638* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2639 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2640 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2641 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2642 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2643
2644 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2645
2646 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2647
2648 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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2650* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2651 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2652 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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2654* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2655 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2656
2657* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2658 changed from the default "C" locale.
2659
2660* The usual bug fixes.
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2663
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2664* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2665 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2666 is in progress.
2667
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2668* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2669
793bd4d9 2670* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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2672 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2673 obviously requires a database library being available.
2674
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2675* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2676
abbffdf9 2677* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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2679* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2680 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2681
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2682* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2683
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2684* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2685 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2686 and Mark Kettenis.
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2687
2688 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2689 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2690 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 2691
a00c3ca9 2692 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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2693 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2694
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2695* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2696 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2697 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2698
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2699* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2700 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2701 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2703
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2704 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2705 structures for the wide character tables.
2706
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2707* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2708
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2709* The utmp daemon has been removed.
2710
2711* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2712
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2713* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2714 and Yutaka Niibe.
2715
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2716* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2717
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2718* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2719
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2720* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2721
2722* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2723
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2724* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2725
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2726* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2727 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2728 implemented for Linux.
2729
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2730* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2731 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2732 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2733 versions.
2734
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2735* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2736 Masahide Washizawa.
2737
8f3f1e09 2738* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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2740Version 2.1.3
2741
2742* bug fixes
2743
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2745Version 2.1.2
2746
2747* bug fixes
2748
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2750Version 2.1.1
2751
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2752* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2753
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2754* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2755
407d26b7 2756* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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2757
2758* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2759
407d26b7 2760* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 2761
407d26b7 2762* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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2763
2764* Update timezone data files.
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2766* lots of charmaps corrections
2767
2768* some new locale definitions and charmaps
2769
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2771Version 2.1
2772
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2773* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2774 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2775 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2776 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2777 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2778 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2779
c84142e8 2780* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 2781 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 2782
1fb05e3d 2783* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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2784 symbol level.
2785
2786* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2787 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 2789* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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2790
2791* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 2792 numbers.
377a515b 2793
cbdee279 2794* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 2795
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2796* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2797 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 2798
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2799* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2800 library.
2801
e61abf83 2802* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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2803 functions from ISO C 9X.
2804
2805* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2806 real valued functions.
e61abf83 2807
a5a0310d 2808* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 2809
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2810* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2811
2812* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 2813
440d13e2 2814* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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2815
2816* Optimized string functions have been added.
2817
2818* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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2819
2820* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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2822* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2823 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2824
2825 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2826 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2827
0dee6738 2828 user system wall
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0dee6738 2830 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 2831
0dee6738 2832 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 2833
0dee6738 2834 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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2836 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2837
2838 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2839
2840 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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2843 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 2844 horribly slow.
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2846 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2847 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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2849* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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2850
2851* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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2852
2853* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2854 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2855
2856* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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2858* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
2859 Bambrough.
2860
2861* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
2862 latest draft standards.
2863
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2864* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
2865
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2867~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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2870argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
2871argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
2872argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
2873argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2874argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
2875argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
2876argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
2877argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
2878argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2879argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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2881authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
2882authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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2884backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
2885backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
2886cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
2887cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2888cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2889cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2890cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2891cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2892capget NEW: kernel
2893capset NEW: kernel
2894carg NEW: ISO C 9x
2895cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
2896cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
2897casin NEW: ISO C 9x
2898casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2899casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2900casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2901casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2902casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2903catan NEW: ISO C 9x
2904catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2905catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2906catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2907catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2908catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2911ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2912ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2913ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2914ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2915ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2916cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
2917cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
2918cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
2919cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
2920cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
2921cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
2922clearerr_locked REMOVED
2923clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2924clog NEW: ISO C 9x
2925clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2926clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2927clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2928clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
2929clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
2930conj NEW: ISO C 9x
2931conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
2932conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
2933cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
2934cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
2935cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
2936cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
2937cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
2938cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
2939creal NEW: ISO C 9x
2940crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
2941creall NEW: ISO C 9x
2942creat64 NEW: LFS
2943csin NEW: ISO C 9x
2944csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2945csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2946csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2947csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2948csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2949csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
2950csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
2951csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
2952ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
2953ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2954ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2955ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2956ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2957ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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2958des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
2959ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 2960endutxent NEW: Unix98
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2961exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2962exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2963exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2964exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
2965exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
2966exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
2967fattach NEW: STREAMS
2968fdetach NEW: STREAMS
2969fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
2970fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
2971fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
2972feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2973fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2974fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2975fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2976feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2977feof_locked REMOVED
2978feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2979ferror_locked REMOVED
2980fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2981fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2982fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2983fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2984feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2985fflush_locked REMOVED
2986ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
2987ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
2988fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
2989fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2990fileno_locked REMOVED
2991fma NEW: ISO C 9x
2992fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
2993fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
2994fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
2995fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
2996fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
2997fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
2998fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
2999fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3000fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3002fputc_locked REMOVED
3003fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3004fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3005freopen64 NEW: LFS
3006fseeko NEW: Unix98
3007fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3008fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3009fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3010fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3011ftello NEW: Unix98
3012ftello64 NEW: LFS
3013ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3014ftw64 NEW: LFS
3015fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3016gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3017gamma_r REMOVED
3018gammaf_r REMOVED
3019gammal_r REMOVED
3020getchar_locked REMOVED
3021getdate NEW: Unix98
3022getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3023getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3024getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3025getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3028getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3029getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3031getutxid NEW: Unix98
3032getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3034globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3035gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3036gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3037grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3038host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3040iconv_close NEW: iconv
3041iconv_open NEW: iconv
3042if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3043if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3044if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3045if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3046in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3047in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3048inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3049isastream NEW: STREAMS
3050iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3052key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3053key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3054key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3055key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3056key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3057key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3058key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3059key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3060llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3061llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3062llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3063llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3064llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3065llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3066log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3067log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3068log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3069lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3070lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3071lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3072lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3073lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3074lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3075lseek64 NEW: LFS
3076makecontext NEW: Unix98
3077mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3078mmap64 NEW: LFS
3079moncontrol REMOVED
3080modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3081nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3082nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3083nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3084nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3085nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3086nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3087netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3088netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3089nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3090nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3091nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3092nftw NEW: Unix98
3093nftw64 NEW: LFS
3094open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3095passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3096pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3097pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3098pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3099pread NEW: Unix98
3100pread64 NEW: LFS
3101printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3102printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3103profil_counter REMOVED
3104pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3105pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3106ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3107ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3108putc_locked REMOVED
3109putchar_locked REMOVED
3110putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3111putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3112putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3113pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3114pwrite NEW: Unix98
3115pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3116readdir64 NEW: LFS
3117readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3118remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3119remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3120remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3121round NEW: ISO C 9x
3122roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3123roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3124rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3125scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3126scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3127scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3128scandir64 NEW: LFS
3129sendfile NEW: kernel
3130setcontext NEW: Unix98
3131setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3132setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3134sigignore NEW: Unix98
3135sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3136sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3137sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3138sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3139sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3140sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3141sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3142sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3143statfs64 NEW: LFS
3144statvfs NEW: Unix98
3145statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3146strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3147strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3148strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3149strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3150svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3151svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3152svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3153swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3154tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3155tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3156tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3157tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3158tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3159tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3160trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3161truncate64 NEW: LFS
3162truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3163truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3164umount2 NEW: kernel
3165unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3166updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3167user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3168utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3169versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3170versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3171waitid NEW: Unix98
3172wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3173wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3174wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3175wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3176wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3177wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3178wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3179wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3180wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3181wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3182write_profiling REMOVED
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3183xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3184xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3185xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3186xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3187xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3188xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3189xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3190xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3191xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3192xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3193xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3194xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3195xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3196xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3197xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3198~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3200Version 2.0.6
3201
3202* more bug fixes
3203
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3205Version 2.0.5
3206
3207* more bug fixes
3208
3209* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3210
3211* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3212
3213* rewrite of cbrt function
3214
3215* update of timezone data
3216\f
3217Version 2.0.4
3218
3219* more bug fixes
3220\f
3221Version 2.0.3
3222
3223* more bug fixes
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3225Version 2.0.2
3226
3227* more bug fixes
3228
3229* add atoll function
3230
3231* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3232
3233* fix math functions
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3235Version 2.0.1
3236
3237* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3238
3239* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3240
3241* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3242 the ELF dynamic loader.
3243
3244* support for parallel builds is improved
3245\f
40a4b79f 3246Version 2.0
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3248* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3249 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3250 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3251
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3252* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3253 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3254 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3255 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3256 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3257 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3258 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3259 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3260 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3261 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3262 files in the ELF format.
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3263
3264* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3265 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3266
3267* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3268 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3269 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3270 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3271 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3272 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3273 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3274 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3275 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3276 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3277 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3279* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3280 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3281 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3282 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3283 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3284
f7eac6eb 3285* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3286 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3287 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3288 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3289 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3290
3291* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3293* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3294 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3295 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3296 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3297 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3298 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3299 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3300 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3301 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3302
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3303* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3304 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3305 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3306
3307* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3308 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3309 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3310
3311* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3312 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3313 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3314 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3315
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3316* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3317 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3318 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3319
3320* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3321 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3322 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3323
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3324* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3325 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3326
f7eac6eb 3327* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3328 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3329 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3330 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3331
3332* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3333 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3334 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3335
71733723 3336* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3337 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3338 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3339 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3340 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3341 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3342 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3343 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3344
3345* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3346 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3347 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3348 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3349 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3350 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3351 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3352
3353* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3354 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3355 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3356 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3357 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3358 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3359
3360* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3361 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3362
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3363* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3364 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3365 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3367* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3368
3369* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3370 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3371 their use is discouraged.
3372
3373* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3374 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3376* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3377 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3378
3379* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3380 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3381
3382* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3383 see <dirent.h>.
3384
3385* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3386 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3387 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3388 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3389 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3390
3391* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3392 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3393 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3394 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3395
3396* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3397 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3398
3399* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3400 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3401 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3402 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3403 number generator.
3404
3405* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3406 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3407
3408* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3409 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3410
71733723 3411* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3412 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3413 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3414 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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3416* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3417
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3418* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3419 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3420 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3421
3422* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3423 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3425* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3426 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3427 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3428 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3429
3430* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3431 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3432 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3433 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3434 programs already written to use it.)
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3435
3436* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3437 constants.
3438
3439* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3440 with 4.4 BSD.
3441
3442* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3443 a given effective group ID.
3444
3445* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3446 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3447 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3448 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3449
3450* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3451 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3452 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3453 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3454 doing the same thing.
3455
3456* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3457 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3458
3459* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3460 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3461
3462* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3463
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3464* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3465 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3466 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3467 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3468 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3469
3470* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3471 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3472
3473* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3474 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3475 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3476 function.
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3477
3478* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3479
3480* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3481 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3482 strings.
3483
3484* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3485 and writing the utmp file.
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3486
3487* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3488 Thorsten Kukuk.
3489
3490* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3491 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3492 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3493
3494* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3495 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3496
3497* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3498 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3499 specification.
3500
3501* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3502 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3503 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3504 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3505
3506* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3507 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3508 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3509
3510* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3511 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3512 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3513 expression matcher.
3514
3515* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3516 functionality.
3517
3518* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3519 by Ulrich Drepper.
3520
3521* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3522
3523* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3524 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3525 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3527Version 1.09
3528
3529* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3530
3531* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3532 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3533
3534* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3535 want to put themselves in the background.
3536
3537* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3538 run without an operating system.
3539
3540* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3541 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3542
3543* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3544 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3545
3546* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3547
3548* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3549 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3550 have YP (aka NIS).
3551
3552* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3553 conventions.
3554
3555* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3556 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3557\f
3558Version 1.08
3559
3560* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3561 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3562 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3563
3564* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3565 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3566
3567* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3568 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3569
3570* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3571
3572* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3573
3574* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3575 compatibility.
3576
3577* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3578 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3579 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3580
3581* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3582
3583* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3584 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3585 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3586
3587* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3588 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3589 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3590 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3591 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3592 on a block).
3593
3594* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3595 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3596 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3597 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3598 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3599 cross-compiler.
3600
3601* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3602 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3603\f
3604Version 1.07
3605
3606* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3607 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3608
3609* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3610 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3611 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3612
3613* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3614 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3615 address of the last character written.
3616
3617* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3618 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3619
3620* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3621 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3622
3623* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3624 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3625 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3626 you dereference this pointer.
3627
3628* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3629 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3630
3631* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3632 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3633 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3634 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3635
3636* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3637 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3638 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3639 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3640\f
3641Version 1.06
3642
3643* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3644 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3645 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3646 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 3647 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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3648
3649* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3650
3651* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3652
3653* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3654 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3655
3656* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3657 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3658
3659* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3660 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3661
3662* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3663 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3664 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3665 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3666 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3667
3668* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3669 to the error code in `errno'.
3670
3671* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3672 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3673 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3674 malloc'd string.
3675
3676* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3677 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3678 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3679
3680* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3681 uniquely-named temporary file.
3682\f
3683Version 1.05
3684
3685* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3686 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3687 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3688
3689* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3690 characters.
3691
3692* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3693 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3694
3695* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3696\f
3697Version 1.04
3698
3699* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3700 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3701 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3702 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3703
3704* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3705 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3706 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3707
3708* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3709 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3710
3711* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3712 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3713 made itself into a shared library.
3714
3715* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3716 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3717
3718* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3719 with limited length.
3720
3721* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3722
3723* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3724
3725* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3726
3727* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3728 function for traversing a directory tree.
3729
3730* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3731 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3732 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3733 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3734
3735* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3736 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3737
3738* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3739
3740* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3741 things to your strings.
3742
3743* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3744
3745* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3746 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3747 supporting those systems.
3748
3749* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3750 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3751 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3752 configuration files.
3753
3754* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3755 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3756
3757* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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3758 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3759 in <strings.h>.)
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3760
3761* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3762 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3763 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3764 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3765 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3766 required storage is not available.
3767
3768* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3769 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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3770
3771* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3772 latest files released from Berkeley.
3773\f
3774----------------------------------------------------------------------
3775Copyright information:
3776
58b587c1 3777Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3778
3779 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
3780 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
3781 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
3782 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
3783
3784 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
3785 of this document, or of portions of it,
3786 under the above conditions, provided also that they
3787 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
3788\f
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