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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28
9
10Major new features:
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12* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
14
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
16 fMxaddfNx functions.
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18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
19 fMxsubfNx functions.
20
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21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
22 fMxmulfNx functions.
23
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24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
25 fMxdivfNx functions.
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27* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
28 Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
29 alternative month names.
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31* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
32 patches.
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34Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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36* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
37 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
38 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
39
40* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
41 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
42 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
43 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
44 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
45 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
46
47* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
48 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
49 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
50 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
51 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
52 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
53 (Bug #1190.)
54
55* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
56 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
57 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
58 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
59 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
60 further explanation.
61
62 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
63 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
64 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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66* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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68* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
69 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
70 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
71
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72* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
73 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
74 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
75 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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77Changes to build and runtime requirements:
78
79 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
80
81Security related changes:
82
83 [Add security related changes here]
84
85The following bugs are resolved with this release:
86
87 [The release manager will add the list generated by
88 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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91Version 2.27
92
93Major new features:
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95* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
96 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 97 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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98 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
99 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
100 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
101 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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102 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
103 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 105* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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106 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
107 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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109* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
110
4cf82d23 111* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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113* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
114 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
115 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
116 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
117 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
118 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
119 from a security and performance perspective.
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121* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
122 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
123 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
124 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
125
81325b12 126* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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127 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
128 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
129 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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130 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
131
a23aa5b7 132* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 133 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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134 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
135 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
136 _Float128.
137
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138* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
139 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
140 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 142* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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144* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
145 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
146 pkey_get.
147
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148* The copy_file_range function was added.
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150* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
151
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152* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
153 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
154 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
155
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156* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
157 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
158 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
159 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
160 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
161 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
162 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
163
164 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
165 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
166 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
167 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
168 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
169 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
170 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
171
172 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
173 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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174 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
175 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
176 respectively.
177
178 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
179 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
180 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
181 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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183 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
184 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
185 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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187 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
188 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 189 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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191* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
192 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
193 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
194
195 - rv64imac lp64
196 - rv64imafdc lp64
197 - rv64imafdc lp64d
198
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199Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
200
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201* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
202 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 203 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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204 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
205 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
206 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
207 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
208 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
209 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
210 fix this.
211
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212* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
213 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
214 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
215
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216* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
217 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
218 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
219 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
220 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
221 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
222 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
223 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
224 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
225 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
226 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
227 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
228 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
229 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
230 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
231 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
232 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
233 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
234 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
235 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
236 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
237 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
238 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
239 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
240 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
241 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
242
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243* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
244 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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246* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
247 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
248 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
249 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
250 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
251 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
252 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
253
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254* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
255 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
256 exp10l for these functions instead.
257
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258* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
259 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
260 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
261
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262* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
263 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
264 ignored.
265
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266* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
267 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
268 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
269 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
270
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271* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
272 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
273
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274* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
275 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
276
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277* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
278 programs.
279
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280* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
281
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282* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
283 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
284 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
285 instead.
286
287 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
288 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
289 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
290 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
291 use, but predates the bits convention.
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293Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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295* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
296 subdirectory.
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298Security related changes:
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300 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
301 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
302 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
303 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
304 script.)
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306 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
307 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
308 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
309 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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311 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
312 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
313 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
314 of service.
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316 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
317 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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318 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
319
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320 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
321 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
322 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
323 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
324
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325 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
326 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
327 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
328 Qualys.
329
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330 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
331 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
332 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
333 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
334 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
335
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336 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
337 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
338 current directory.
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340 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
341 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
342 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
343
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344 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
345 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
346 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
347
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348 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
349 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
350 small, instead of NULL.
351
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354 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
355 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
356 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
357 locale
358 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
359 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
360 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
361 cases
362 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
363 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
364 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
365 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
366 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
367 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
368 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
369 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
370 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
371 "Bangla"
372 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
373 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
374 width Latin characters
375 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
376 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
377 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
378 letters
379 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
380 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
381 (CVE-2009-5064)
382 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
383 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
384 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
385 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
386 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
387 if malloc succeeded
388 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
389 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
390 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
391 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
392 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
393 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
394 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
395 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
396 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
397 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
398 U+309A
399 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
400 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
401 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
402 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
403 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
404 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
405 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
406 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
407 for Nicaragua
408 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
409 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
410 are not found.
411 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
412 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
413 access
414 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
415 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
416 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
417 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
418 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
419 __regcall calling convention
420 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
421 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
422 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
423 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
424 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
425 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
426 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
427 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
428 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
429 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
430 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
431 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
432 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
433 locale
434 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
435 protector=all
436 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
437 wcwidth
438 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
439 consistency check failures
440 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
441 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
442 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
443 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
444 PIE
445 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
446 locales
447 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
448 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
449 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
450 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
451 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
452 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
453 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
454 on memory allocation failure
455 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
456 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
457 the suspect)
458 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
459 default (i386)
460 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
461 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
462 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
463 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
464 instead of EAI_NODATA
465 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
466 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
467 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
468 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
469 implementation
470 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
471 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
472 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
473 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
474 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
475 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
476 allocation in syscall loops)
477 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
478 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
479 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
480 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
481 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
482 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
483 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
484 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
485 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
486 occur with -O3
487 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
488 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
489 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
490 amounts)
491 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
492 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
493 niu_NZ
494 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
495 checks
496 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
497 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
498 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
499 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
500 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
501 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
502 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
503 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
504 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
505 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
506 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
507 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
508 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
509 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
510 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
511 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
512 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
513 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
514 parsing after OOM
515 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
516 object
517 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
518 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
519 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
520 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
521 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
522 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
523 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
524 ppc64le
525 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
526 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
527 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
528 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
529 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
530 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
531 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
532 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
533 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
534 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
535 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
536 math_force_eval
537 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
538 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
539 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
540 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
541 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
542 the svid compat wrapper
543 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
544 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
545 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
546 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
547 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
548 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
549 --verbose.
550 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
551 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
552 to 2.26
553 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
554 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
555 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
556 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
557 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
558 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
559 (CVE-2017-15804)
560 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
561 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
562 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
563 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
564 failure."
565 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
566 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
567 -m32
568 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
569 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
570 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
571 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
572 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
573 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
574 inside the ASCII printable range
575 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
576 -mlong-double-64
577 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
578 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
579 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
580 Internet
581 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
582 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
583 backslash
584 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
585 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
586 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
587 heaps in an arena
588 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
589 networking interface
590 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
591 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
592 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
593 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
594 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
595 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
596 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
597 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
598 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
599 order
600 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
601 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
602 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
603 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
604 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
605 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
606 same as for Croatian
607 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
608 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
609 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
610 for initial thread"
611 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
612 SC_SSIZE_MAX
613 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
614 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
615 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
616 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
617 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
618 (CVE-2017-1000408)
619 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
620 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
621 modified in case of success
622 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
623 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
624 success
625 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
626 stack-protector=all
627 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
628 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
629 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
630 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
631 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
632 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
633 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
634 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
635 adding it on top
636 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
637 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
638 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
639 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
640 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
641 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
642 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
643 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
644 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
645 (CVE-2018-1000001)
646 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
647 elision and tunables
648 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
649 "invalid" exception
650 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
651 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
652 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
653 exception
654 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
655 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
656 power4
657 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
658 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
659 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
660 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
661 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
662 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
663 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
664 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
665 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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669
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671
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673 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
674 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
675 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
676 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
677 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
678 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
679
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680* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
681 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 682 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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683 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
684 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
685 are rendered with pango, see for example:
686 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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689 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
690 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 692* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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694 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
695 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
696 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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698 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
699 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
700 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
701 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
702 object are still limited to six search domains.
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705 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
706 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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709 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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711* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
712 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
713 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
714 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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716* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
717 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
718 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
719 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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722 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
723 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
724 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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726* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
727 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
728 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 729
2b2ccd0c 730* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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731 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
732 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
733 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 735 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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736 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
737 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
738 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
739 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
740
741 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
742 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
743 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
744 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
745 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
746 interfaces should be used instead.
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749
750* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
751 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
752 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
753 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
754 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
755 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
756 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
757 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
758
759* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
760 removed.
761
762* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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765 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
766
767* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
768 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
769 default.
770
771 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
772 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
773 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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775 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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777 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
778 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
779 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
780 name service modules, to be built and installed.
781
782* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
783 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
784 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
785 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
786
787* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
788 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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791 exported by accident.
792
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793* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
794 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
795 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
796
797* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
798 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
799 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
800 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
801
802* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
803
804* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
805
806* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
807 free instead.
808
809* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
810 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
811
812* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
813 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
814
815* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
816 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
817 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
818 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
819 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
820 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
821 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
822 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
823
824* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
825 synced with the kernel:
826
827 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
828 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
829
830 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
831 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
832 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
833
834 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
835 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
836
837Changes to build and runtime requirements:
838
839* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
840 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
841 x86-32 and x86-64.)
842
7e368000 843* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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846 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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848 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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849 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
850 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
851 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 852 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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855
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857 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
858
859* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
860 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
861
862* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
863 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
864 (CVE-2010-3192).
865
866* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
867 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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871 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
872 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
873 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
874 fields
875 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
876 (CVE-2010-3192)
877 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
878 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
879 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
880 ld.bfd is available
881 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
882 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
883 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
884 x86 and other generic code
885 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
886 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
887 incorrect
888 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
889 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
890 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
891 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
892 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
893 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
894 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
895 resolver
896 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
897 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
898 order of 0D36 and 0D37
899 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
900 chillu characters
901 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
902 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
903 receiving data
904 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
905 whitespace
906 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
907 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
908 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
909 for Peru
910 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
911 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
912 failures consistently
913 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
914 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
915 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
916 frame-pointer on i386
917 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
918 register
919 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
920 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
921 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
922 generic c code is used
923 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
924 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
925 around 4000
926 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
927 (CVE-2017-12133)
928 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
929 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
930 with -lieee
931 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
932 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
933 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
934 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
935 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
936 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
937 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
938 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
939 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
940 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
941 remove()
942 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
943 checked for errors.
944 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
945 new posix_spawn implementation
946 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
947 leads to lower CPU frequency
948 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
949 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
950 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
951 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
952 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
953 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
954 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
955 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
956 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
957 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
958 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
959 not support gethostbyname4_r
960 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
961 switching
962 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
963 arenas
964 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
965 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
966 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
967 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
968 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
969 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
970 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
971 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
972 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
973 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
974 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
975 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
976 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
977 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
978 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
979 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
980 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
981 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
982 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
983 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
984 retry value
985 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
986 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
987 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
988 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
989 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
990 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
991 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
992 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
993 [21537] libc:
994 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
995 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
996 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
997 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
998 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
999 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1000 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1001 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1002 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1003 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1004 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1005 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1006 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1007 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1008 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1009 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1010 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1011 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1012 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1013 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1014 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1015 issue on x86-64
1016 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1017 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1018 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1019 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1020 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1021 construction
1022 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1023 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1024 between_2_3
1025 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1026 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1027 conditions
1028 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1029 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1030 Hindi Locale
1031 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1032 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1033 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1034 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1035 locale
1036 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1037 leading to relocation crash
1038 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1039 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1040 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1041 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1042 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1043 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1044 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1045 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1046 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1047 locale
1048 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1049 locale
1050 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1051 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1052 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1053 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1054 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1055 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1056 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1057 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1058 strings
1059 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1060 protector=all
1061 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1062 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1063 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1064 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1065 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1066 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1067 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1068 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1069 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1070 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1071 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1072 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1073 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1074 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1075 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1076 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1077 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1078 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1079 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1080 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1081 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1082 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1083 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1084 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1085 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1086 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1087 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1088 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1089 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1090 with unicode 9.0
1091 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1092 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1093 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1094 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1095 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1099
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1100* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1101 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1102 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1103 Library.
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1105* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1106 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1107 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1108 the GNU C Library.
1109
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1110* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1111 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1112 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1113 the GNU C Library.
1114
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1115* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1116 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1117 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1118 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1119 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1120 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1121 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1122 will not.
1123
1124 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1125 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1126 many years.
1127
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1128* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1129 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1130 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1131
1132 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1133 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1134 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1135 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1136 problem.
1137
ec94343f 1138* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1139 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1140 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1142* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1143 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1144 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1145 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1146 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1147 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1148 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1149 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1150 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1151 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1152 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1153 WINT_WIDTH.
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1155* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1156
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1157 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1158
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1159 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1160 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1161 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1162
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1163 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1164 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1165
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1166 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1167 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1168
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1169 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1170
29cb9293 1171 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1172
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1173 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1174 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1175
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1176 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1177
eb3c12c7 1178 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1179 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1181* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1182 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1183
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1184* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1185 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1186 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1187
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1188* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1189 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1190 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1191 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1192 effects of the memory clear).
1193
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1194* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1195 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1196 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1197 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1198
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1199* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1200 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1201 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1202 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1203 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1204 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1206* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1207 have been added.
1208
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1209* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1210 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1211 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1212 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1213 as large as several megabytes.
1214
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1215* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1216 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1217 been removed.
1218
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1219* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1220 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1221 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1222 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1223 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1224 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1225 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1226
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1227* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1228 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1229 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1230 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1231
099191b1 1232* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1233 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1234 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1235 Internet.
1236
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1237* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1238 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1239 They were already unimplemented.
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1241* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1242 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1243 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1244 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1245
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1246* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1247 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1248 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1249 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1250 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1251
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1252* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1253 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1254 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1255 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1256 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1257
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1258* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1259 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1260 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1261 did not reflect that.
1262
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1263* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1264 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1265 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1266 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1267 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1268 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1269 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1270 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1271
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1272* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1273 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1274 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1275 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1276
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1277* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1278 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1279 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1280 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1281
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1282* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1283 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1284 guarantees.
1285
1286* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1287 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1288 make state changes.
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1291
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1293 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1294 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1295 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1296 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1298* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1299 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1300 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1301 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1302 (CVE-2015-5180)
1303
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1305
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1306 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1307 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1308 protector-all
1309 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1310 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1311 before it started waiting
1312 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1313 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1314 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1315 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1316 wrong type
1317 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1318 library linked with pthread
1319 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1320 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1321 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1322 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1323 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1324 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1325 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1326 when it shouldnt
1327 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1328 not
1329 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1330 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1331 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1332 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1333 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1334 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1335 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1336 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1337 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1338 termination
1339 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1340 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1341 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1342 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1343 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1344 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1345 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1346 causes a segmentation fault
1347 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1348 linking
1349 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1350 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1351 uninitialized GOT
1352 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1353 versions
1354 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1355 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1356 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1357 is always true.
1358 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1359 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1360 modes
1361 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1362 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1363 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1364 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1365 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1366 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1367 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1368 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1369 libpthread.a
1370 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1371 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1372 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1373 _res_hconf
1374 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1375 information.
1376 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1377 penalty
1378 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1379 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1380 cause transition penalty
1381 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1382 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1383 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1384 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1385 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1386 mcount.oS)
1387 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1388 Checking
1389 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1390 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1391 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1392 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1393 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1394 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1395 multi-arch
1396 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1397 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1398 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1399 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1400 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1401 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1402 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1403 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1404 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1405 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1406 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1407 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1408 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1409 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1410 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1411 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1412 glibc
1413 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1414 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1415 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1416 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1417 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1418 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1419 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1420 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1421 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1422 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1423 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1424 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1425 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1426 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1427 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1428 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1429 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1430 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1431 RES_USE_INET6
1432 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1433 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1434 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1435 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1436 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1437 wrong condition
1438 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1439 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1440 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1441 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1442 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1443 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1444 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1445 clang
1446 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1447 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1448 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1449 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1450 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1451\f
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1452Version 2.24
1453
5b4ecd3f
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1454* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1455 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1456 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1457 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1458 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1459 architectures.
1460
b6ebba70
MF
1461* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1462 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1463 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1464
7584a3f9
FW
1465* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1466 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1467
b49ab5f4
FW
1468* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1469 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1470 instead of “union wait”.
1471
ced8f893
SG
1472* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1473 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1474 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1475 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1476 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1477 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1478 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1479
2ba3cfa1
FW
1480* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1481 API.
1482
b7a9b7b0
MF
1483* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1484 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1485 drop it.
6a54bcda 1486
41a359e2
RS
1487* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1488 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1489 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1490 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1491 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1492 extensions.
1493
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1494Security related changes:
1495
f5b3338d
FW
1496* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1497 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1498 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1499
4ab2ab03
FW
1500* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1501 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1502 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1503 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1504
5171f307
FW
1505* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1506 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1507 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1508
bc779a1a
FW
1509* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1510 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1511 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1512
fab38231
FW
1513* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1514 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1515 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1516 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1517
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1518The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1519
3c4f81ec
CD
1520 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1521 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1522 of MS-DOS.
1523 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1524 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1525 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1526 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1527 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1528 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1529 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1530 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1531 CLDR data
1532 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1533 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1534 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1535 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1536 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1537 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1538 romanisation
1539 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1540 and +/-
1541 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1542 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1543 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1544 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1545 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1546 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1547 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1548 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1549 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1550 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1551 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1552 all locales
1553 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1554 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1555 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1556 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1557 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1558 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1559 execute
1560 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1561 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1562 -Wsystem-headers
1563 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1564 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1565 Romanian locale data
1566 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1567 symbol
1568 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1569 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1570 language
1571 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1572 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1573 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1574 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1575 machine
1576 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1577 description
1578 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1579 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1580 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1581 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1582 when using RTLD_NEXT
1583 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1584 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1585 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1586 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1587 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1588 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1589 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1590 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1591 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1592 Excavator core
1593 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1594 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1595 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1596 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1597 double range
1598 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1599 part zero incorrect
1600 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1601 equality tests
1602 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1603 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1604 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1605 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1606 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1607 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1608 glibc-2.22
1609 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1610 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1611 'tst-numeric.c'
1612 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1613 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1614 low part
1615 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1616 result
1617 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1618 unaligned stack
1619 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1620 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1621 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1622 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1623 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1624 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1625 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1626 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1627 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1628 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1629 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1630 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1631 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1632 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1633 modes
1634 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1635 server addresses
1636 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1637 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1638 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1639 response to getaddrinfo
1640 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1641 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1642 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1643 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1644 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1645 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1646 sometimes incorrect
1647 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1648 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1649 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1650 record types
1651 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1652 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1653 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1654 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1655 (CVE-2016-3075)
1656 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1657 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1658 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1659 resolving symbols
1660 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1661 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1662 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1663 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1664 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1665 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1666 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1667 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1668 gethosts
1669 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1670 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1671 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1672 (CVE-2016-3706)
1673 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1674 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1675 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1676 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1677 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1678 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1679 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1680 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1681 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1682 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1683 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1684 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1685 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1686 executable
1687 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1688 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1689 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1690 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1691 XPG3
1692 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1693 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1694 (CVE-2016-4429)
1695 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1696 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1697 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1698 AS not supporting AVX512
1699 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1700 sNaN argument
1701 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1702 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1703 argument
1704 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1705 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1706 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1707 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1708 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1709 eax=0x80000001
1710 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1711 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1712 subnormals
1713 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1714 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1715 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1716 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1717 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1718 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1719 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1720 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1721 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1722 input
1723 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1724 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1725 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1726 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1727 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1728 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1729 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1730 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1731 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1732 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1733 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1734 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1735 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1736 double rounding
1737 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1738 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1739 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1740 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1741 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1742 (Only arm/linux)
1743 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1744 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1745 fallbacks
1746 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1747 "invalid" exceptions
1748 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1749 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1750 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1751 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1752 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1753 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1754 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1755 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1756 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1758Version 2.23
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1760* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1761 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1762 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1763 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1764 89, 16061, and 18568.
1765
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1766* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1767 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1768 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1769 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1770 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1771 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1772 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
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1774* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1775 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1776 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1777
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1778* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1779 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1780 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1781 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1782 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1783 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1784 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1785
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1786* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1787 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1788 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1789 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1790 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1791 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1792 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1793 Ericsson.)
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1795* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1796 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1797 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1798 independent of the GNU C Library.
1799
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1800* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1801 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1803* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1804 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1805 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1806 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1807 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1808 Linux kernel.
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1811 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1813* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1814 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1815 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1816 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1817 defining their own copy.
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1819* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1820 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1821 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1823Security related changes:
1824
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1825* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1826 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1827
1828* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1829 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1830 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1831 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1832 (CVE-2015-8777)
1833
1834* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1835 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1836
1837* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1838 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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1840* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1841 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1842 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1845 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1846 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1847 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1848 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1849 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1850 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1851 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1852 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1853 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1854 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1855 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1856 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1857
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1860 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1861 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1862 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1863 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1864 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1865 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1866 use `mkstemp'
1867 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1868 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1869 overflow/underflow errors
1870 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1871 overflow/underflow
1872 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1873 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1874 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1875 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1876 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1877 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1878 are not contiguous
1879 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1880 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1881 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1882 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1883 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1884 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1885 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1886 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1887 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1888 all exceptions
1889 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1890 arguments
1891 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1892 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1893 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1894 should include
1895 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1896 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1897 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1898 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1899 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1900 GNU/Linux
1901 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1902 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1903 arguments
1904 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1905 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1906 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1907 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1908 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1909 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1910 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1911 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1912 rounding results
1913 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1914 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1915 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1916 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1917 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1918 fails
1919 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1920 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1921 block boundary
1922 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1923 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1924 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1925 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1926 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1927 4.7?
1928 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1929 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1930 (related to lock elision)
1931 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1932 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1933 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1934 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1935 (CVE-2015-8779)
1936 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1937 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1938 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1939 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1940 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1941 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1942 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1943 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1944 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1945 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1946 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1947 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1948 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1949 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1950 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1951 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1952 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1953 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1954 contains a vector instruction exception.
1955 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1956 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1957 locales
1958 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1959 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1960 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1961 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1962 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1963 missing break ?
1964 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1965 32bit processes
1966 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1967 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1968 infinity
1969 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1970 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1971 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1972 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1973 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1974 be forced unloaded
1975 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1976 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1977 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1978 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1979 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1980 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1981 statically too large
1982 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1983 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1984 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1985 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1986 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1987 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1988 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1989 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1990 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1991 FUTEX_SHARED
1992 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1993 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1994 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1995 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1996 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1997 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1998 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1999 opendir()
2000 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2001 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2002 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2003 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2004 signgam
2005 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2006 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2007 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2008 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2009 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2010 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2011 dependencies
2012 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2013 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2014 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2015 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2016 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2017 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2018 (CVE-2015-8776)
2019 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2020 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2021 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2022 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2023 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2024 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2025 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2026 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2027 contention
2028 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2029 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2030 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2031 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2032 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2033 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2034 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2035 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2036 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2037 rounding modes
2038 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2039 ILP32
2040 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2041 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2042 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2043 threshold
2044 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2045 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2046 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2047 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2048 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2049 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2050 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2051 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2052 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2053 pthread_setaffinity_np
2054 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2055 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2056 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2057 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2058 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2059 prelink
2060 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2061 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2062 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2063 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2064 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2065 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2066 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2067 bits/mathcalls.h
2068 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2069 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2070 for C99-based standards
2071 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2072 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2073 math-only
2074 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2075 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2076 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2077 disabled
2078 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2079 "inexact" exceptions
2080 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2081 arguments
2082 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2083 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2084 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2085 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2086 rules
2087 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2088 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2089 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2090 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2091 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2092 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2093 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2094 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2095 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2096 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2097 from 32bit
2098 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2099 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2100 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2101 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2102 subnormals
2103 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2104 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2105 error on 32-bit architectures
2106 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2107 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2108 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2109 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2110 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2111 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2112 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2113 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2114 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2115 -Os
2116 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2117 CPU's.
2118 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2119 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2120 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2121 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2122 architectures
2123 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2125Version 2.22
2126
2127* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2128
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2130 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2131 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2132 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2133 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2134 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2135 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2136 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2137 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2138 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2139 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2140 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2141 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2142 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2143 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2144 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2145 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2146 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
2147 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2148 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2149
f7fba805
SL
2150* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2151 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2152
2959eda9
AS
2153* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2154 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2155 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2156 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2157 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2158 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2159
42261ad7
FW
2160* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2161 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2162 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2163 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2164 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2165
afcd9480
AM
2166* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2167 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2168 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2169
4a4839c9
AO
2170* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2171 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2172 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2173 17998.
2174
b13b96ca
AS
2175* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2176 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2177 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2178
2179* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2180 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2181 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2182 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2183 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2184 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2185 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2186 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2187
2188* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2189 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2190 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2191 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2192
2193* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2194 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2195 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2196
2197* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2198 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2199
2200* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2201 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2202 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2203
a03ba363 2204 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2205 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2206 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2207\f
58b930ae
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2208Version 2.21
2209
2210* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2211
042e1521 2212 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2213 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2214 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2215 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2216 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2217 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2218 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2219 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2220 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2221 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2222 17892.
2223
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FW
2224* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2225 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2226 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2227 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2228 intended.
042e1521
CD
2229
2230* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2231 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2232 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2233 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2234 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2235 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2236
522e6ee3
CLT
2237* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2238
d3b00f46
AZ
2239* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2240 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2241 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2242
8d2c0a59
AZ
2243* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2244 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2245 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2246 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2247 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2248 effects being visible outside transactions.
2249
dc400d7b
RE
2250* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2251 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2252
0f9dfe04
L
2253* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2254
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2255* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2256 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2257 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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2258 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2259 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2260
a5357b7c
JL
2261* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2262 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2263
e54db0ea
AM
2264* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2265 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2266 format.
11e3417a 2267
4863355a
JM
2268* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2269 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2270 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2271
a4ecc9eb
JM
2272* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2273 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2274
0d560bbf 2275* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2276
2277* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2278 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2279 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2280 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2281
2282* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2283 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2284
2285* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2286 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2287 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2288 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2289 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2290 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2291 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2292 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2293 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2294 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2295 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2296 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2297 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2298
2299 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2300 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2301 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2302 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2303 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2304\f
d5b396c1
AM
2305Version 2.20
2306
2307* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2308
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2309 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2310 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2311 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2312 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2313 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2314 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2315 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2316 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2317 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2318 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2319 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2320 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2321 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2322 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2323 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2324
95ee7fb1
SL
2325* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2326 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2327 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2328 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2329 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2330 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2331 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2332 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2333 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2334 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2335
0961f7e1
JL
2336* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2337 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2338 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2339 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2340 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2341
f940b965
RE
2342* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2343
d0f5b3f8
JM
2344* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2345 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2346
d6fe5e58
JM
2347* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2348 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2349 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2350 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2351 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2352 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2353
464263cc
JM
2354* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2355 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2356
2357* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2358 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2359 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2360 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2361 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2362 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2363 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2364
2365* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2366
2367* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2368 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2369 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2370 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2371 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2372 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2373 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2374
2375* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2376 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2377 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2378 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2379 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2380
2381* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2382 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2383 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2384
2385* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2386 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2387 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2388 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2389
2390* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2391 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2392 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2393 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2394 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2395 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2396 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2397 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2398
2399* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2400 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2401 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2402 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2403 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2404 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2405 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2406 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2407 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2408
2409* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2410 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2411 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2412 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2413 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2414 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2415
2416* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2417 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2418 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2419 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2420\f
2421Version 2.19
2422
2423* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2424
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JM
2425 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2426 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2427 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2428 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2429 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2430 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2431 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2432 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2433 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2434 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2435 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2436 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2437 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2438 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2439 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2440 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2441 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2442 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2443
11520a57
CD
2444* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2445 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2446
2fe16229
CD
2447* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2448 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2449 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2450 extension which uses __block.
2451
303e567a
SP
2452* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2453 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2454 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2455 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2456 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2457
141f3a77
SP
2458* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2459 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2460 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2461 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2462 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2463
2464* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2465 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2466 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2467 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2468 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2469
2470* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2471 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2472 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2473
ba0d798c
WN
2474* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2475 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2476 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2477 #15856, #15857).
2478
7cbcdb36
SP
2479* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2480 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2481
82bab04b 2482* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2483 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2484
c5f840fd
MB
2485* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2486
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CD
2487* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2488 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2489
3e181dda 2490* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2491
8a05c252
CL
2492* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2493
6055173a
JM
2494* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2495 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2496 for which the C library was built.
2497
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JM
2498* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2499 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2500 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2501 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2502 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2503 in the following circumstances:
2504
2505 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2506
2507 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2508 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2509
d4f66d37
JM
2510* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2511 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2512
3e181dda
CD
2513* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2514 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2515
ffb89e53
AO
2516* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2517
5d29ccce
SP
2518* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2519 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2520
8b7d57cd 2521* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2522
2523* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2524
fd712ef3 2525* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2526
c688b419
JM
2527* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2528 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2529 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2530 disable some of those declarations.
2531
7011c262 2532* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
2533 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2534 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2535
2536* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2537 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2538
2539* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2540 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2541 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2542 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2543 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2544 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2545 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2546 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2547 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2548 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2549 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2550 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2551 require recompilation.
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2553Version 2.18
2554
2555* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2556
17db6e8d 2557 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
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2558 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2559 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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2560 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2561 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2562 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2563 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2564 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2565 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2566 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2567 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2568 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2569 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2570 15755, 15759.
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2571
2572* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2573 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2574 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2575 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2576 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2577 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2578
5b535ac4
AS
2579* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2580 #15078).
2581
1cef1b19
AS
2582* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2583 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2584
55e4107b
SP
2585* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2586 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2587 destructor calls to glibc.
2588
e5c74c63
SP
2589* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2590 output.
2591
2592* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2593 non-x86 architectures.
2594
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2595* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2596
2597* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2598
2599* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2600 Richard Henderson.
2601
2602* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2603
2604* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2605 Richard Henderson.
2606
2607* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2608 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2609
8cfdb7e0
SP
2610* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2611
57267616
TS
2612* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2613 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2614
c204ab28
SP
2615* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2616 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2617
0748546f
PE
2618* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2619 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2620 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2621
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2622* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2623 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2624 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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2625
2626* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2627 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2628 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2629 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2630 mutexes.
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2631
2632* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2633 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2634
2635* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2636\f
2637Version 2.17
2638
2639* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2640
80ceeaee 2641 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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2642 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2643 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2644 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2645 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2646 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2647 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2648 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2649 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2650 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2651 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2652 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2653 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2654 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2655 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2656
95b4f1b6
SE
2657* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2658
14bc93a9
JL
2659* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2660 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2661
b54eb3cb
JM
2662* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2663 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2664
7e2bd01f
MS
2665* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2666
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AK
2667* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2668 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2669 zEnterprise z196.
2670 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2671
84b3fd84
FW
2672* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2673 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2674 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2675
815e6fa3
GB
2676* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2677 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2678
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MK
2679* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2680 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2681
7aab07e4 2682* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2683 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2684
15d0da8c
WS
2685* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2686 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2687
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2688* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2689 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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2690 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2691 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2692
b54eb3cb
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2693* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2694 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2695
85429b1a 2696* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2697 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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2698 default.
2699
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2700* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2701 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2702 information in --help and --version output.
2703
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2704* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2705 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2706 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2707
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AO
2708* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2709 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2710 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2711 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2712 when the mode is enabled.
2713
6e6249d0
RM
2714* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2715 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2716 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2717 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2718 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2719 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2720 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2721
d9286582
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2722* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2723 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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2724\f
2725Version 2.16
2726
2727* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2728
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2729 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2730 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2731 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2732 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2733 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2734 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2735 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2736 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2737 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2738 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2739 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2740 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2741 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2742 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2743 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2744 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2745 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2746 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2747 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2748 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2749 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2750 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2751 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2752
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2753* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2754 configuring glibc with:
2755 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2756 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2757 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2758
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2759* ISO C11 support:
2760
2761 + define static_assert
2762
2763 + do not declare gets
2764
2765 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2766
2767 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2768 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2769 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2770 implementation.
8d44e150 2771
74033a25 2772 + timespec_get added
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2773
2774 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2775
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2776 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2777
16dd419d
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2778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2779
9dc4e1fb 2780* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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2781
2782* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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2783
2784* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2786
2787* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2788 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2789
2790* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2791 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2792 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2793 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2794 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2795
21708942 2796* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2797 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2798 before 2.6.
83678f76 2799
edb00e4d
RH
2800* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2801 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2802 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2803
83678f76 2804* New locales: mag_IN
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2805
2806* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2807 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2808 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2809 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2810 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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2811
2812* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2813
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2814* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2815 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
2816
2817* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2818
2819* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2820 without a previously built glibc.
2821
2822* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2823 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2824
2825* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2826 now supported for ARM processors.
2827
2828* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2829 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2830 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2831
2832* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2833
2834* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2835 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2836 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2837 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
2838
2839* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2840 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2841 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2842 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2843
2844* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2845 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2846 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2847 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2848 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2849
2850* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2851 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2852 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2853 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2854\f
e80fab37 2855Version 2.15
11988f8f 2856
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2857* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2858
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2859 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2860 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2861 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2862 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2863 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2864 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2865 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2866
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2867* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2869
2870* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2871 and support for initgroups lookups.
2872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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L
2873
2874* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2875 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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2876
2877* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2878 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2879
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2880* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2881 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2882 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2883
d42964a0 2884* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2885 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2886
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2887* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2888 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2889 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2890
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2891* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2893
2894* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2896
2897* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2899
2900* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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2902
2903* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2904 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2905
2906* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2907 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2908
2909* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2910
2911* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2913
f0b264f1
AZ
2914* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2915 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 2916
6b64057b 2917* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 2918\f
dded88cd 2919Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 2920
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2921* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2922
553149f6 2923 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2924 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2925 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2926 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2927 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2928 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2929 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2930 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2931 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2932 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 2933
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2934* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2935 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2936 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2937 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2938
2939 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2940 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2941 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2942 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2943
c6489db3 2944* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2945 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2946
72d1dddb 2947* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2948 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2949
2950* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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2951
2952* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2953 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2954
2955* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2956 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2957 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2958 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2960Version 2.13
2961
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2962* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2963
c30b7ee2
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2964 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2965 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2966 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2967 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2968 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2969
10b3bedc 2970* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2971
ac2b484c 2972* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2974* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2975 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2979
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2981
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2982 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2983 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2984 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2985 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2986 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2987 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2988 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2989 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2991* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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2993* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2994
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2995* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2996
2997* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2998 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3000
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3002 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3003 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3004 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3006
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3010
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3012
3013 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3014 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3015 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3016 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3017 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3018 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3019
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3020* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3021 mkostemps64
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3022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3023
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3025 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3026
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3027* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3028 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3029
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3030* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3031
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9d36a6c4 3033 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3034 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3035 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3036
9d36a6c4 3037 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3038 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3039
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3040* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3041 strstr, strcasestr.
3042 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3043
3044* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3045 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3046
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3047* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3048 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3049
3050* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3051 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3052
3053* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3054 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3055 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3056 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3057 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3058 necessity is every process again.
3059 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3060
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3061* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3062 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3063
3064* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3065 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3066
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3067* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3068 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3070
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3074
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3075* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3076
3077 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3078 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3079 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3080 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3081 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3082
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3084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3085
425ce2ed 3086* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3087 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3088
1fdd89a7 3089* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3090 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3092* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3093 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3095* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3096 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3098* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3100
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3101* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3102 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3103
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3104* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3105 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3106
3107* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3108 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3109 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3110
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878b72c5 3112
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3114 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115
3116* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3117 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3118 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3119
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3120* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3121 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3122
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3123* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3124 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3125 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3126 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3127 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3128 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3130Version 2.9
3131
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3132* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3133
3134 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3135 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3136 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3137 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3138 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3139
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3141 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3142
3143* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3144 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3145
3146* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3148
3149* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3150 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3152
3153* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3154 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 3156* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3157
3158* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3159 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3161* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3162 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3163 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3164 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3165
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3166* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3167 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3169* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3170 Sinhala)
48b22986 3171 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3172
3173* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3175Version 2.8
3176
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3177* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3178
3179 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3180 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3181 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3182 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3183 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3184 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3185 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3186
e038616f 3187* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3188
77751669 3189* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3190
3191* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3192 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3193
3194* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3195
3196* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
3199* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3200 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3201
3202* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3203 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3204 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3205
3206* Faster memset for x86-64.
3207 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3208
3209* Faster memcpy on x86.
3210 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3211
3212* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3213 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3214
3215* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3216 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3218Version 2.7
3219
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3220* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3221
3222 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3223 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3224 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3225 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3226 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3227
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3228* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3229 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3230
3231* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3232
3233* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3234 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3235 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3236
3237* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3238 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3239
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3241 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3242
3243* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3244
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3245* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3247
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3248* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3249 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3250
3251* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3252 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3253
3254* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3255
3256* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3257 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3258
3259* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3260 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3261 yo_NG.
3262
3263+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3269
3270 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3271 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3272 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3273 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3274 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3275 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3276 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3277 4702, 4858
3278
bce20b9a 3279* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3281* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3282
b21fa963 3283* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3285Version 2.5
3286
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3287* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3288
3289 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3290 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3291 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3292 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3293 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3294 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3295 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3296 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3297 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3298
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3300 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3303* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3305
871b9158 3306* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3308* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3310* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3311 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3312 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3315
07bfff20 3316* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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3317 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3318 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3320
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3321* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3322 Ulrich Drepper.
3323
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3324* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3325
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3326* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3327 Ulrich Drepper.
3328
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3329* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3330
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3331* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3332 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3335
3336* More overflow detection functions.
3337
3338* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3339 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3341 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3342 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3343 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3344 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3345 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3346 by Masahide Washizawa.
3347
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3348* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3349 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3351* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3352 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3353 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3354 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3356* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3357 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3358
3359* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3360
3361* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3362 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3363 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3364
3365* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3366 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3367
3368* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3369 for compatibility with some other systems.
3370
3371* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3374
3375* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3376
3377 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3378 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3379 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3380 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3381 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3382 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3383
3384 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3385
3386* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3387
3388* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3390Version 2.3.5
3391
3392* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3393
3394 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3395 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3396 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3397 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3398
3399 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3401Version 2.3.4
3402
3403* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3406* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3407 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3408 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3409
3410* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3411 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3412
0325dd20 3413* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3414 efficiently.
3415 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3416
3417* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3418 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3419 handling data.
3420
3421* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3422 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3423 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3424
3425* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3426 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3427
3428* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3429 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3430 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3431 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3432
3433* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3434 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3435 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3436 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3437
3438* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3439 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3440 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3441 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3442 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3444Version 2.3.3
3445
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3446* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3447 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3448
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3449* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3450 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 3452* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3453 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3454
3455* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3458* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3459 by Roland McGrath.
3460
c5af724c 3461* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3462 and Ulrich Drepper.
3463
3464* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3465 RFC 3484.
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3467Version 2.3.2
3468
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3469* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3470 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3471 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3472 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3473 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3474 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3475 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3476 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3477 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3478
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3479* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3480 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3481 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3482
3483* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3484
3485* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3486 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3488* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3489 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3490
52a16e58 3491* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3493* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3494 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3495
3496* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3497 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3498 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3499 of weak definition in ld.so.
3500
3501* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3502 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3503
3504* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3505 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3509* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3510 charsets.
3511
3512* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3513 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3514
bb0ec5bd 3515* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3516 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3517
3518* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3519 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3520
bb0ec5bd 3521* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3522 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3523 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3524
3525* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3526 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3527
bb0ec5bd 3528* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3529 implementation of regex.
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3530
3531* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3532 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3533
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3534* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3535 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3536
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3537* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3538 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3539 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3540
3541* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3542 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3543
3544* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3545 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3546 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3547
3548* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3549 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3550
3551* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3552 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3553 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3554
3555* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3557Version 2.2.6
3558
3559* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3560 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3561
3562* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3563 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3565Version 2.2.5
3566
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3567* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3568 128-bit long double format.
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3570* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3571 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3572
ad2e4f18 3573* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3574
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3575* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3576
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3577* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3578 as well.
3579
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3580* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3581 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3582
3583* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3585Version 2.2.4
3586
2995f70e 3587* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3588 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3589
3590* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3591 support Unicode 3.1.
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3592
3593* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3594 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3595
69d5f925 3596* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3597
69d5f925 3598* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3599 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3600 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3601
3602* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3603 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3604
3605* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3606 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3607
3608* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3610Version 2.2.3
3611
1746f2b0 3612* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3613 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3614 in float, double, and long double format.
3615
f128331c 3616* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3617 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3618 128-bit long double format.
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3620* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3621 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3622 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3623 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3624
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3625* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3626 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3627 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3628
3629* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3630 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3631
3632* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3633 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3635* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3636 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3637 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3638
3639* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3640 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3642* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3643 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3644
3645* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3647Version 2.2.2
3648
464d97ec 3649* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3650 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3651 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3652 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3653 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3654 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3655 other headers.
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3656
3657* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3658 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3659
3660* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3661 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3662 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3663 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3664
3665* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3666 locales. While
3667
3668 locale -a
3669
3670 only lists the names of the supported locales
3671
3672 locale -a --verbose
3673
3674 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3675 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3677Version 2.2.1
3678
3679* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3680 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3681 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3682 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3683 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3684
3685 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3686
3687 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3688
3689 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3690
3691* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3692 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3693 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3694
3695* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3696 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3697
3698* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3699 changed from the default "C" locale.
3700
3701* The usual bug fixes.
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3703Version 2.2
3704
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3705* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3706 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3707 is in progress.
3708
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3709* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3710
793bd4d9 3711* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3713 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3714 obviously requires a database library being available.
3715
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3716* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3717
abbffdf9 3718* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3720* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3721 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3722
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3723* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3724
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3725* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3726 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3727 and Mark Kettenis.
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3728
3729 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3730 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3731 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3732
a00c3ca9 3733 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3734 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3735
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3736* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3737 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3738 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3739
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3740* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3741 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3742 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3744
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3745 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3746 structures for the wide character tables.
3747
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3748* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3749
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3750* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3751
3752* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3753
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3754* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3755 and Yutaka Niibe.
3756
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3757* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3758
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3759* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3760
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3761* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3762
3763* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3764
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3765* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3766
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3767* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3768 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3769 implemented for Linux.
3770
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3771* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3772 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3773 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3774 versions.
3775
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3776* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3777 Masahide Washizawa.
3778
8f3f1e09 3779* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3781Version 2.1.3
3782
3783* bug fixes
3784
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3786Version 2.1.2
3787
3788* bug fixes
3789
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3791Version 2.1.1
3792
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3793* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3794
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3795* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3796
407d26b7 3797* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3798
3799* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3800
407d26b7 3801* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3802
407d26b7 3803* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3804
3805* Update timezone data files.
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3807* lots of charmaps corrections
3808
3809* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3810
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3812Version 2.1
3813
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3814* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3815 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3816 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3817 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3818 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3819 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3820
c84142e8 3821* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3822 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3823
1fb05e3d 3824* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3825 symbol level.
3826
3827* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3828 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3829
cbdee279 3830* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3831
3832* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3833 numbers.
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cbdee279 3835* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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3837* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3838 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3839
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3840* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3841 library.
3842
e61abf83 3843* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3844 functions from ISO C 9X.
3845
3846* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3847 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3848
a5a0310d 3849* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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3851* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3852
3853* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3854
440d13e2 3855* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3856
3857* Optimized string functions have been added.
3858
3859* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3861* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3863* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3864 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3865
3866 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3867 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3868
0dee6738 3869 user system wall
48244d09 3870
0dee6738 3871 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3872
0dee6738 3873 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3874
0dee6738 3875 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3877 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3878
3879 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3880
3881 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3884 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3885 horribly slow.
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3887 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3888 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3890* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3891
3892* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3893
3894* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3895 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3896
3897* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3900 Bambrough.
3901
3902* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3903 latest draft standards.
3904
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3906
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3908~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3912argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3913argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3914argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3915argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3916argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3917argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3918argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3919argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3920argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3922authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3923authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3924backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3925backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3926backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3927cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3928cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3929cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3930cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3931cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3932cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3933capget NEW: kernel
3934capset NEW: kernel
3935carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3936cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3937cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3938casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3939casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3940casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3941casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3942casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3943casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3944catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3945catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3946catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3947catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3948catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3949catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3951ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3952ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3953ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3954ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3955ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3956ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3957cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3958cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3959cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3960cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3961cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3962cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3963clearerr_locked REMOVED
3964clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3965clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3966clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3967clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3968clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3969clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3970clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3971conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3972conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3973conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3974cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3975cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3976cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3977cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3978cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3979cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3980creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3981crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3982creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3983creat64 NEW: LFS
3984csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3985csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3986csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3987csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3988csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3989csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3990csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3991csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3992csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3993ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3994ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3995ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3996ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3997ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3998ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3999des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4000ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4001endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4002exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4003exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4004exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4005exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4006exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4007exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4008fattach NEW: STREAMS
4009fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4010fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4011fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4012fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4013feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4014fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4015fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4016fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4017feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4018feof_locked REMOVED
4019feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4020ferror_locked REMOVED
4021fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4022fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4023fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4024fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4025feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4026fflush_locked REMOVED
4027ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4028ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4029fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4030fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4031fileno_locked REMOVED
4032fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4033fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4034fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4035fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4036fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4037fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4038fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4039fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4040fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4041fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4042fopen64 NEW: LFS
4043fputc_locked REMOVED
4044fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4045fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4046freopen64 NEW: LFS
4047fseeko NEW: Unix98
4048fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4049fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4050fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4051fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4052ftello NEW: Unix98
4053ftello64 NEW: LFS
4054ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4055ftw64 NEW: LFS
4056fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4057gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4058gamma_r REMOVED
4059gammaf_r REMOVED
4060gammal_r REMOVED
4061getchar_locked REMOVED
4062getdate NEW: Unix98
4063getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4064getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4065getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4066getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4068getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4069getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4070getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4071getutxent NEW: Unix98
4072getutxid NEW: Unix98
4073getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4074glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4075globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4076gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4077gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4078grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4079host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4080iconv NEW: iconv
4081iconv_close NEW: iconv
4082iconv_open NEW: iconv
4083if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4084if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4085if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4086if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4087in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4088in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4089inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4090isastream NEW: STREAMS
4091iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4092key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4093key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4094key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4095key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4096key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4097key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4098key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4099key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4100key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4101llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4102llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4103llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4104llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4105llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4106llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4107log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4108log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4109log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4110lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4111lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4112lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4113lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4114lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4115lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4116lseek64 NEW: LFS
4117makecontext NEW: Unix98
4118mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4119mmap64 NEW: LFS
4120moncontrol REMOVED
4121modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4122nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4123nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4124nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4125nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4126nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4127nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4128netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4129netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4130nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4131nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4132nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4133nftw NEW: Unix98
4134nftw64 NEW: LFS
4135open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4136passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4137pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4138pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4139pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4140pread NEW: Unix98
4141pread64 NEW: LFS
4142printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4143printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4144profil_counter REMOVED
4145pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4146pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4147ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4148ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4149putc_locked REMOVED
4150putchar_locked REMOVED
4151putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4152putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4153putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4154pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4155pwrite NEW: Unix98
4156pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4157readdir64 NEW: LFS
4158readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4159remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4160remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4161remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4162round NEW: ISO C 9x
4163roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4164roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4165rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4166scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4167scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4168scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4169scandir64 NEW: LFS
4170sendfile NEW: kernel
4171setcontext NEW: Unix98
4172setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4173setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4174sighold NEW: Unix98
4175sigignore NEW: Unix98
4176sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4177sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4178sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4179sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4180sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4181sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4182sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4183sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4184statfs64 NEW: LFS
4185statvfs NEW: Unix98
4186statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4187strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4188strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4189strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4190strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4191svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4192svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4193svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4194swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4195tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4196tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4197tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4198tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4199tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4200tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4201trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4202truncate64 NEW: LFS
4203truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4204truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4205umount2 NEW: kernel
4206unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4207updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4208user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4209utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4210versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4211versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4212waitid NEW: Unix98
4213wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4214wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4215wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4216wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4217wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4218wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4219wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4220wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4221wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4222wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4223write_profiling REMOVED
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4224xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4225xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4226xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4227xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4228xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4229xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4230xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4231xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4232xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4233xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4234xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4235xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4236xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4237xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4238xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4240\f
4241Version 2.0.6
4242
4243* more bug fixes
4244
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4245\f
4246Version 2.0.5
4247
4248* more bug fixes
4249
4250* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4251
4252* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4253
4254* rewrite of cbrt function
4255
4256* update of timezone data
4257\f
4258Version 2.0.4
4259
4260* more bug fixes
4261\f
4262Version 2.0.3
4263
4264* more bug fixes
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4266Version 2.0.2
4267
4268* more bug fixes
4269
4270* add atoll function
4271
4272* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4274* fix math functions
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4276Version 2.0.1
4277
4278* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4279
4280* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4281
4282* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4283 the ELF dynamic loader.
4284
4285* support for parallel builds is improved
4286\f
40a4b79f 4287Version 2.0
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4289* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4290 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4291 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4292
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4293* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4294 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4295 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4296 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4297 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4298 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4299 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4300 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4301 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4302 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4303 files in the ELF format.
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4304
4305* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4306 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4307
4308* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4309 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4310 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4311 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4312 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4313 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4314 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4315 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4316 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4317 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4318 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4320* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4321 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4322 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4323 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4324 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4325
f7eac6eb 4326* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4327 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4328 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4329 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4330 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4331
4332* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4334* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4335 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4336 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4337 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4338 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4339 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4340 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4341 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4342 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4343
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4344* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4345 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4346 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4347
4348* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4349 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4350 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4351
4352* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4353 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4354 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4355 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4356
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4357* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4358 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4359 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4360
4361* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4362 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4363 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4364
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4365* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4366 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4367
f7eac6eb 4368* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4369 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4370 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4371 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4372
4373* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4374 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4375 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4376
71733723 4377* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4378 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4379 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4380 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4381 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4382 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4383 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4384 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4385
4386* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4387 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4388 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4389 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4390 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4391 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4392 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4393
4394* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4395 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4396 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4397 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4398 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4399 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4400
4401* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4402 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4403
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4404* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4405 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4406 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4408* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4409
4410* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4411 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4412 their use is discouraged.
4413
4414* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4415 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4417* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4418 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4419
4420* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4421 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4422
4423* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4424 see <dirent.h>.
4425
4426* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4427 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4428 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4429 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4430 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4431
4432* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4433 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4434 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4435 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4436
4437* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4438 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4439
4440* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4441 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4442 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4443 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4444 number generator.
4445
4446* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4447 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4448
4449* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4450 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4451
71733723 4452* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4453 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4454 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4455 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4457* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4458
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4459* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4460 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4461 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4462
4463* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4464 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4466* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4467 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4468 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4469 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4470
4471* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4472 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4473 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4474 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4475 programs already written to use it.)
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4476
4477* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4478 constants.
4479
4480* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4481 with 4.4 BSD.
4482
4483* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4484 a given effective group ID.
4485
4486* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4487 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4488 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4489 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4490
4491* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4492 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4493 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4494 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4495 doing the same thing.
4496
4497* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4498 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4499
4500* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4501 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4502
4503* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4504
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4505* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4506 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4507 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4508 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4509 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4510
4511* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4512 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4513
4514* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4515 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4516 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4517 function.
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4518
4519* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4520
4521* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4522 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4523 strings.
4524
4525* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4526 and writing the utmp file.
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4528* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4529 Thorsten Kukuk.
4530
4531* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4532 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4533 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4534
4535* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4536 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4537
4538* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4539 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4540 specification.
4541
4542* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4543 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4544 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4545 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4546
4547* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4548 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4549 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4550
4551* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4552 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4553 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4554 expression matcher.
4555
4556* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4557 functionality.
4558
4559* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4560 by Ulrich Drepper.
4561
4562* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4563
4564* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4565 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4566 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4568Version 1.09
4569
4570* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4571
4572* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4573 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4574
4575* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4576 want to put themselves in the background.
4577
4578* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4579 run without an operating system.
4580
4581* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4582 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4583
4584* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4585 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4586
4587* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4588
4589* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4590 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4591 have YP (aka NIS).
4592
4593* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4594 conventions.
4595
4596* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4597 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4598\f
4599Version 1.08
4600
4601* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4602 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4603 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4604
4605* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4606 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4607
4608* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4609 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4610
4611* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4612
4613* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4614
4615* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4616 compatibility.
4617
4618* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4619 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4620 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4621
4622* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4623
4624* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4625 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4626 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4627
4628* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4629 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4630 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4631 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4632 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4633 on a block).
4634
4635* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4636 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4637 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4638 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4639 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4640 cross-compiler.
4641
4642* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4643 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4644\f
4645Version 1.07
4646
4647* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4648 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4649
4650* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4651 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4652 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4653
4654* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4655 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4656 address of the last character written.
4657
4658* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4659 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4660
4661* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4662 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4663
4664* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4665 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4666 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4667 you dereference this pointer.
4668
4669* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4670 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4671
4672* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4673 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4674 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4675 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4676
4677* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4678 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4679 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4680 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4681\f
4682Version 1.06
4683
4684* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4685 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4686 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4687 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4688 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4689
4690* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4691
4692* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4693
4694* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4695 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4696
4697* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4698 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4699
4700* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4701 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4702
4703* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4704 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4705 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4706 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4707 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4708
4709* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4710 to the error code in `errno'.
4711
4712* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4713 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4714 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4715 malloc'd string.
4716
4717* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4718 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4719 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4720
4721* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4722 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4724Version 1.05
4725
4726* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4727 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4728 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4729
4730* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4731 characters.
4732
4733* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4734 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4735
4736* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4737\f
4738Version 1.04
4739
4740* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4741 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4742 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4743 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4744
4745* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4746 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4747 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4748
4749* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4750 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4751
4752* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4753 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4754 made itself into a shared library.
4755
4756* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4757 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4758
4759* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4760 with limited length.
4761
4762* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4763
4764* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4765
4766* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4767
4768* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4769 function for traversing a directory tree.
4770
4771* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4772 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4773 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4774 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4775
4776* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4777 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4778
4779* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4780
4781* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4782 things to your strings.
4783
4784* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4785
4786* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4787 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4788 supporting those systems.
4789
4790* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4791 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4792 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4793 configuration files.
4794
4795* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4796 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4797
4798* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4800 in <strings.h>.)
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4801
4802* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4803 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4804 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4805 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4806 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4807 required storage is not available.
4808
4809* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4810 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4811
4812* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4813 latest files released from Berkeley.
4814\f
4815----------------------------------------------------------------------
4816Copyright information:
4817
09533208 4818Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4819
4820 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4821 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4822 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4823 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4824
4825 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4826 of this document, or of portions of it,
4827 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4828 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4829\f
4830Local variables:
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