From: Joseph Myers Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 18:37:42 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add more NEWS items for 2.16. X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.16-tps~145 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=47e452cf7c13529f168ff2a415107d1c8e9af9c2;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git Add more NEWS items for 2.16. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9583748a8f9..f561ac3e815 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -82,6 +82,27 @@ Version 2.16 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are provided only for i*86 and x86_64. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho. + +* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva. + +* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella. + +* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller. + +* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds + without a previously built glibc. + +* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by + Chris Metcalf from Tilera. + +* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is + now supported for ARM processors. + +* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 + as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the + /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI. + +* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports. Version 2.15