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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
13 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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15* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
16 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
17 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
18 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
19 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
20 configured location.
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424c4f60 22* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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24* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
25 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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27* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
28 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
29 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
30 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
31 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
32 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
33 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
34 process actually does not use HTM).
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36* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
37 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
38 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
39 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
40 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
41 of the same name.
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43* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
44 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
45 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
46 incosistent mutex state after fork call in multithread environment.
47 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
48
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49Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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51* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
52 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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54* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
55 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
56 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
57 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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59* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
60 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
61 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
62 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
63 structures.
64
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65Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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c6982f7e 67* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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69Security related changes:
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71 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
72 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
73 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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75The following bugs are resolved with this release:
76
77 [The release manager will add the list generated by
78 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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81Version 2.28
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83Major new features:
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85* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
86 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
87 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
88 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
89 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
90 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
91 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
92 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
93 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
94 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
95 archive or binary locales.
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97* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
98 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
99 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
100 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
101 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
102 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
103 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
104 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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105 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
106 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
107 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
108 validated for i686.
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110* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
111 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
112 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
113 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
114 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
115 field) to indicate such support is required.
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117* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
118 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
119 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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121* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
122 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
123
124 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
125 fMxaddfNx functions.
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127 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
128 fMxsubfNx functions.
129
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130 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
131 fMxmulfNx functions.
132
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133 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
134 fMxdivfNx functions.
135
e607a352 136* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 137 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 138 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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139 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
140 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 142* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 143 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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145* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
146 patches.
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148* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
149 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
150 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
151 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
152 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
153 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
154 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
155 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
156
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157* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
158 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
159 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
160 the fstatat64 function.
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162* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
163 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
164 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
165 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
166 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
167 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
168 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
169 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
170 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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172* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
173 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
174 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
175 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
176 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
177 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
178 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
179 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
180 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
181 results in a load failure now.
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183* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
184 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
185 <threads.h>:
186
187 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
188 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
189
190 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
191 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
192
193 - call_once for function call synchronization.
194
195 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
196 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
197
198 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
199
200 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
201
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202Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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204* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
205 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
206 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
207
208* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
209 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
210 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
211 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
212 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
213 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
214
215* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
216 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
217 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
218 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
219 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
220 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
221 (Bug #1190.)
222
223* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
224 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
225 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
226 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
227 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
228 further explanation.
229
230 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
231 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
232 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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234* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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236* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
237 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
238 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
239
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240* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
241 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
242 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
243 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
244
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245* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
246 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
247 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
248 for this function instead.
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250* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
251 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
252 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
253
254* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
255 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
256 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
257 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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259* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
260 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
261 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
262 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
263 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
264
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265* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
266 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
267 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
268 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
269 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
270 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
271 such as libgcrypt.
272
273* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
274 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
275 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
276 enabled.
277
278* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
279 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
280 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
281
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282* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
283 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
284 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
285 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
286 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
287 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
288
289 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
290 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
291 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
292 behavior in a future release.
293
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294Changes to build and runtime requirements:
295
f2873d2d 296 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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298Security related changes:
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300 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
301 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
302 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
303 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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305 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
306 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
307
308 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
309 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
310 Izbyshev.
311
312 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
313 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
314 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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316The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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318 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
319 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
320 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
321 when __WORDSIZE != 64
322 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
323 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
324 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
325 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
326 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
327 14651
328 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
329 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
330 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
331 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
332 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
333 conversion is given
334 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
335 date
336 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
337 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
338 scope with -O1 and higher
339 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
340 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
341 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
342 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
343 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
344 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
345 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
346 horrible machine code)
347 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
348 last constant.
349 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
350 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
351 symbols
352 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
353 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
354 defined
355 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
356 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
357 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
358 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
359 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
360 fpscr.c'
361 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
362 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
363 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
364 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
365 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
366 the base address
367 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
368 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
369 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
370 open_verify
371 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
372 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
373 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
374 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
375 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
376 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
377 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
378 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
379 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
380 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
381 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
382 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
383 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
384 dlopen
385 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
386 AT_SECURE=1
387 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
388 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
389 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
390 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
391 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
392 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
393 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
394 for Spanish with CLDR
395 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
396 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
397 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
398 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
399 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
400 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
401 es_BO
402 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
403 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
404 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
405 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
406 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
407 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
408 dlopen failures
409 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
410 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
411 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
412 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
413 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
414 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
415 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
416 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
417 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
418 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
419 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
420 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
421 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
422 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
423 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
424 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
425 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
426 makecontext
427 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
428 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
429 required
430 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
431 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
432 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
433 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
434 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
435 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
436 disabled
437 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
438 failure
439 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
440 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
441 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
442 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
443 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
444 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
445 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
446 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
447 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
448 and libc build with -Os)
449 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
450 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
451 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
452 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
453 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
454 that changes /etc/passwd
455 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
456 (CVE-2018-11237)
457 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
458 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
459 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
460 posix/regcomp.c
461 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
462 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
463 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
464 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
465 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
466 AT_SECURE
467 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
468 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
469 parser.c
470 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
471 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
472 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
473 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
474 directed rounding
475 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
476 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
477 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
478 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
479 lookup
480 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
481 interposition
482 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
483 DSO boundaries.
484 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
485 <linux/time.h>
486 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
487 checking
488 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
489 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
490 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
491 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
492 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
493 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
494 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
495 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
496 processors
497 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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500Version 2.27
501
502Major new features:
503
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505 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 506 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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507 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
508 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
509 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
510 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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511 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
512 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 513
ac817e08 514* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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515 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
516 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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518* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
519
4cf82d23 520* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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522* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
523 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
524 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
525 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
526 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
527 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
528 from a security and performance perspective.
529
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530* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
531 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
532 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
533 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
534
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537 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
538 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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539 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
540
a23aa5b7 541* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 542 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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543 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
544 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
545 _Float128.
546
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547* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
548 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
549 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 550
4bab0224 551* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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553* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
554 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
555 pkey_get.
556
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557* The copy_file_range function was added.
558
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559* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
560
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561* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
562 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
563 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
564
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566 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
567 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
568 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
569 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
570 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
571 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
572
573 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
574 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
575 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
576 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
577 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
578 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
579 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
580
581 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
582 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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584 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
585 respectively.
586
587 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
588 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
589 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
590 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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592 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
593 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
594 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
595
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597 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 598 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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601 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
602 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
603
604 - rv64imac lp64
605 - rv64imafdc lp64
606 - rv64imafdc lp64d
607
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609
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610* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
611 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 612 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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613 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
614 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
615 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
616 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
617 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
618 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
619 fix this.
620
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621* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
622 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
623 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
624
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625* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
626 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
627 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
628 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
629 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
630 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
631 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
632 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
633 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
634 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
635 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
636 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
637 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
638 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
639 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
640 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
641 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
642 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
643 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
644 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
645 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
646 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
647 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
648 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
649 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
650 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
651
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653 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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656 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
657 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
658 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
659 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
660 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
661 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
662
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663* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
664 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
665 exp10l for these functions instead.
666
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667* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
668 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
669 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
670
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671* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
672 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
673 ignored.
674
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675* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
676 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
677 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
678 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
679
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680* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
681 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
682
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683* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
684 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
685
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686* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
687 programs.
688
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689* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
690
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691* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
692 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
693 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
694 instead.
695
696 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
697 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
698 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
699 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
700 use, but predates the bits convention.
701
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703
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704* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
705 subdirectory.
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707Security related changes:
708
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709 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
710 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
711 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
712 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
713 script.)
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716 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
717 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
718 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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720 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
721 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
722 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
723 of service.
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726 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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727 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
728
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729 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
730 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
731 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
732 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
733
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734 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
735 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
736 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
737 Qualys.
738
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739 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
740 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
741 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
742 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
743 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
744
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745 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
746 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
747 current directory.
748
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749 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
750 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
751 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
752
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753 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
754 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
755 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
756
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757 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
758 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
759 small, instead of NULL.
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763 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
764 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
765 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
766 locale
767 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
768 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
769 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
770 cases
771 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
772 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
773 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
774 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
775 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
776 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
777 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
778 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
779 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
780 "Bangla"
781 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
782 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
783 width Latin characters
784 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
785 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
786 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
787 letters
788 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
789 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
790 (CVE-2009-5064)
791 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
792 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
793 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
794 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
795 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
796 if malloc succeeded
797 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
798 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
799 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
800 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
801 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
802 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
803 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
804 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
805 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
806 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
807 U+309A
808 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
809 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
810 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
811 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
812 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
813 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
814 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
815 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
816 for Nicaragua
817 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
818 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
819 are not found.
820 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
821 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
822 access
823 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
824 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
825 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
826 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
827 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
828 __regcall calling convention
829 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
830 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
831 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
832 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
833 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
834 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
835 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
836 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
837 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
838 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
839 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
840 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
841 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
842 locale
843 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
844 protector=all
845 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
846 wcwidth
847 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
848 consistency check failures
849 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
850 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
851 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
852 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
853 PIE
854 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
855 locales
856 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
857 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
858 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
859 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
860 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
861 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
862 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
863 on memory allocation failure
864 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
865 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
866 the suspect)
867 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
868 default (i386)
869 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
870 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
871 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
872 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
873 instead of EAI_NODATA
874 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
875 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
876 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
877 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
878 implementation
879 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
880 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
881 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
882 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
883 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
884 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
885 allocation in syscall loops)
886 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
887 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
888 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
889 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
890 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
891 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
892 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
893 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
894 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
895 occur with -O3
896 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
897 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
898 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
899 amounts)
900 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
901 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
902 niu_NZ
903 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
904 checks
905 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
906 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
907 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
908 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
909 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
910 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
911 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
912 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
913 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
914 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
915 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
916 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
917 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
918 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
919 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
920 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
921 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
922 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
923 parsing after OOM
924 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
925 object
926 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
927 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
928 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
929 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
930 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
931 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
932 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
933 ppc64le
934 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
935 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
936 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
937 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
938 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
939 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
940 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
941 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
942 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
943 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
944 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
945 math_force_eval
946 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
947 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
948 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
949 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
950 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
951 the svid compat wrapper
952 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
953 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
954 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
955 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
956 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
957 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
958 --verbose.
959 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
960 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
961 to 2.26
962 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
963 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
964 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
965 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
966 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
967 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
968 (CVE-2017-15804)
969 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
970 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
971 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
972 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
973 failure."
974 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
975 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
976 -m32
977 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
978 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
979 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
980 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
981 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
982 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
983 inside the ASCII printable range
984 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
985 -mlong-double-64
986 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
987 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
988 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
989 Internet
990 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
991 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
992 backslash
993 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
994 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
995 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
996 heaps in an arena
997 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
998 networking interface
999 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1000 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1001 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1002 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1003 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1004 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1005 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1006 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1007 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1008 order
1009 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1010 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1011 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1012 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1013 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1014 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1015 same as for Croatian
1016 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1017 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1018 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1019 for initial thread"
1020 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1021 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1022 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1023 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1024 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1025 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1026 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1027 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1028 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1029 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1030 modified in case of success
1031 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1032 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1033 success
1034 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1035 stack-protector=all
1036 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1037 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1038 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1039 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1040 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1041 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1042 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1043 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1044 adding it on top
1045 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1046 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1047 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1048 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1049 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1050 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1051 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1052 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1053 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1054 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1055 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1056 elision and tunables
1057 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1058 "invalid" exception
1059 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1060 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1061 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1062 exception
1063 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1064 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1065 power4
1066 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1067 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1068 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1069 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1070 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1071 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1072 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1073 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1074 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1077Version 2.26
1078
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1079Major new features:
1080
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1081* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1082 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1083 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1084 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1085 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1086 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1087 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1088
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1089* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1090 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1091 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1092 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1093 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1094 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1095 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1097* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1098 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1099 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1100
2b2ccd0c 1101* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1103 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1104 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1105 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1107 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1108 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1109 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1110 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1111 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1113 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1114 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1115 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1117* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1118 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1120* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1121 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1122 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1123 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1125* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1126 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1127 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1128 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1130* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1131 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1132 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1133 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1135* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1136 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1137 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1138
2b2ccd0c 1139* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1140 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1141 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1142 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1143
2b2ccd0c 1144 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1145 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1146 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1147 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1148 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1149
1150 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1151 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1152 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1153 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1154 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1155 interfaces should be used instead.
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1157Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1158
1159* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1160 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1161 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1162 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1163 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1164 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1165 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1166 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1167
1168* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1169 removed.
1170
1171* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1172 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1173 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1174 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1175
1176* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1177 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1178 default.
1179
1180 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1181 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1182 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1183 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1184 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1186 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1187 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1188 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1189 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1190
1191* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1192 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1193 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1194 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1195
1196* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1197 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1199* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1200 exported by accident.
1201
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1202* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1203 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1204 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1205
1206* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1207 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1208 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1209 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1210
1211* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1212
1213* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1214
1215* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1216 free instead.
1217
1218* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1219 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1220
1221* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1222 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1223
1224* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1225 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1226 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1227 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1228 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1229 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1230 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1231 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1232
1233* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1234 synced with the kernel:
1235
1236 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1237 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1238
1239 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1240 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1241 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1242
1243 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1244 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1245
1246Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1247
1248* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1249 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1250 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1251
7e368000 1252* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1255 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1257 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1258 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1259 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1260 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1261 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1264
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1266 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1267
1268* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1269 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1270
1271* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1272 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1273 (CVE-2010-3192).
1274
1275* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1276 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1280 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1281 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1282 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1283 fields
1284 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1285 (CVE-2010-3192)
1286 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1287 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1288 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1289 ld.bfd is available
1290 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1291 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1292 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1293 x86 and other generic code
1294 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1295 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1296 incorrect
1297 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1298 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1299 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1300 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1301 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1302 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1303 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1304 resolver
1305 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1306 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1307 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1308 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1309 chillu characters
1310 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1311 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1312 receiving data
1313 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1314 whitespace
1315 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1316 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1317 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1318 for Peru
1319 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1320 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1321 failures consistently
1322 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1323 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1324 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1325 frame-pointer on i386
1326 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1327 register
1328 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1329 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1330 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1331 generic c code is used
1332 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1333 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1334 around 4000
1335 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1336 (CVE-2017-12133)
1337 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1338 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1339 with -lieee
1340 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1341 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1342 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1343 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1344 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1345 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1346 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1347 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1348 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1349 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1350 remove()
1351 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1352 checked for errors.
1353 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1354 new posix_spawn implementation
1355 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1356 leads to lower CPU frequency
1357 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1358 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1359 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1360 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1361 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1362 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1363 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1364 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1365 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1366 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1367 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1368 not support gethostbyname4_r
1369 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1370 switching
1371 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1372 arenas
1373 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1374 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1375 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1376 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1377 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1378 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1379 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1380 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1381 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1382 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1383 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1384 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1385 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1386 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1387 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1388 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1389 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1390 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1391 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1392 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1393 retry value
1394 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1395 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1396 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1397 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1398 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1399 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1400 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1401 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1402 [21537] libc:
1403 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1404 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1405 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1406 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1407 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1408 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1409 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1410 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1411 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1412 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1413 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1414 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1415 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1416 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1417 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1418 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1419 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1420 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1421 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1422 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1423 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1424 issue on x86-64
1425 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1426 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1427 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1428 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1429 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1430 construction
1431 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1432 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1433 between_2_3
1434 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1435 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1436 conditions
1437 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1438 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1439 Hindi Locale
1440 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1441 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1442 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1443 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1444 locale
1445 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1446 leading to relocation crash
1447 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1448 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1449 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1450 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1451 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1452 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1453 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1454 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1455 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1456 locale
1457 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1458 locale
1459 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1460 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1461 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1462 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1463 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1464 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1465 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1466 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1467 strings
1468 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1469 protector=all
1470 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1471 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1472 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1473 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1474 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1475 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1476 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1477 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1478 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1479 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1480 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1481 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1482 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1483 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1484 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1485 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1486 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1487 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1488 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1489 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1490 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1491 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1492 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1493 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1494 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1495 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1496 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1497 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1498 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1499 with unicode 9.0
1500 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1501 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1502 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1503 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1504 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1508
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1509* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1510 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1511 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1512 Library.
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1514* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1515 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1516 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1517 the GNU C Library.
1518
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1519* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1520 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1521 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1522 the GNU C Library.
1523
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1524* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1525 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1526 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1527 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1528 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1529 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1530 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1531 will not.
1532
1533 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1534 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1535 many years.
1536
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1537* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1538 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1539 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1540
1541 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1542 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1543 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1544 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1545 problem.
1546
ec94343f 1547* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1548 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1549 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1551* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1552 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1553 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1554 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1555 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1556 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1557 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1558 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1559 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1560 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1561 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1562 WINT_WIDTH.
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1564* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1565
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1566 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1567
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1568 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1569 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1570 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1571
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1572 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1573 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1574
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1575 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1576 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1577
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1578 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1579
29cb9293 1580 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1581
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1582 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1583 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1584
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1585 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1586
eb3c12c7 1587 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1588 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1589
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1590* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1591 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1592
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1593* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1594 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1595 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1596
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1597* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1598 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1599 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1600 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1601 effects of the memory clear).
1602
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1603* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1604 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1605 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1606 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1607
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1608* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1609 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1610 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1611 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1612 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1613 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1615* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1616 have been added.
1617
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1618* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1619 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1620 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1621 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1622 as large as several megabytes.
1623
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1624* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1625 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1626 been removed.
1627
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1628* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1629 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1630 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1631 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1632 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1633 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1634 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1635
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1636* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1637 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1638 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1639 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1640
099191b1 1641* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1642 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1643 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1644 Internet.
1645
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1646* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1647 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1648 They were already unimplemented.
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1650* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1651 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1652 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1653 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1654
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1655* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1656 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1657 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1658 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1659 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1660
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1661* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1662 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1663 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1664 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1665 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1666
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1667* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1668 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1669 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1670 did not reflect that.
1671
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1672* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1673 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1674 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1675 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1676 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1677 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1678 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1679 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1680
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1681* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1682 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1683 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1684 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1685
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1686* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1687 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1688 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1689 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1690
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1691* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1692 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1693 guarantees.
1694
1695* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1696 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1697 make state changes.
1698
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1699Security related changes:
1700
fc82b0a2 1701* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1702 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1703 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1704 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1705 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1707* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1708 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1709 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1710 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1711 (CVE-2015-5180)
1712
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1713The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1714
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1715 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1716 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1717 protector-all
1718 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1719 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1720 before it started waiting
1721 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1722 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1723 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1724 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1725 wrong type
1726 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1727 library linked with pthread
1728 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1729 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1730 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1731 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1732 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1733 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1734 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1735 when it shouldnt
1736 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1737 not
1738 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1739 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1740 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1741 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1742 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1743 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1744 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1745 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1746 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1747 termination
1748 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1749 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1750 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1751 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1752 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1753 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1754 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1755 causes a segmentation fault
1756 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1757 linking
1758 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1759 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1760 uninitialized GOT
1761 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1762 versions
1763 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1764 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1765 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1766 is always true.
1767 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1768 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1769 modes
1770 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1771 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1772 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1773 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1774 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1775 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1776 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1777 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1778 libpthread.a
1779 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1780 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1781 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1782 _res_hconf
1783 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1784 information.
1785 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1786 penalty
1787 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1788 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1789 cause transition penalty
1790 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1791 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1792 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1793 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1794 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1795 mcount.oS)
1796 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1797 Checking
1798 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1799 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1800 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1801 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1802 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1803 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1804 multi-arch
1805 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1806 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1807 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1808 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1809 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1810 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1811 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1812 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1813 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1814 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1815 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1816 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1817 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1818 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1819 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1820 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1821 glibc
1822 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1823 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1824 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1825 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1826 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1827 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1828 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1829 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1830 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1831 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1832 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1833 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1834 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1835 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1836 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1837 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1838 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1839 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1840 RES_USE_INET6
1841 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1842 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1843 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1844 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1845 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1846 wrong condition
1847 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1848 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1849 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1850 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1851 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1852 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1853 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1854 clang
1855 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1856 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1857 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1858 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1859 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1863* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1864 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1865 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1866 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1867 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1868 architectures.
1869
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1870* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1871 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1872 been included in previous releases.
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1874* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1875 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1876
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1877* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1878 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1879 instead of “union wait”.
1880
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1881* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1882 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1883 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1884 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1885 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1886 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1887 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1888
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1889* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1890 API.
1891
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1892* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1893 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1894 drop it.
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1896* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1897 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1898 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1899 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1900 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1901 extensions.
1902
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1904
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1905* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1906 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1907 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1908
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1909* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1910 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1911 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1912 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1914* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1915 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1916 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1917
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1918* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1919 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1920 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1921
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1922* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1923 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1924 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1925 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1928
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1929 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1930 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1931 of MS-DOS.
1932 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1933 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1934 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1935 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1936 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1937 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1938 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1939 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1940 CLDR data
1941 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1942 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1943 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1944 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1945 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1946 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1947 romanisation
1948 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1949 and +/-
1950 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1951 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1952 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1953 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1954 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1955 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1956 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1957 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1958 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1959 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1960 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1961 all locales
1962 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1963 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1964 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1965 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1966 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1967 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1968 execute
1969 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1970 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1971 -Wsystem-headers
1972 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1973 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1974 Romanian locale data
1975 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1976 symbol
1977 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1978 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1979 language
1980 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1981 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1982 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1983 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1984 machine
1985 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1986 description
1987 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1988 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1989 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1990 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1991 when using RTLD_NEXT
1992 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1993 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1994 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1995 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1996 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1997 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1998 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1999 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2000 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2001 Excavator core
2002 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2003 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2004 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2005 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2006 double range
2007 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2008 part zero incorrect
2009 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2010 equality tests
2011 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2012 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2013 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2014 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2015 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2016 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2017 glibc-2.22
2018 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2019 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2020 'tst-numeric.c'
2021 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2022 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2023 low part
2024 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2025 result
2026 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2027 unaligned stack
2028 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2029 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2030 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2031 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2032 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2033 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2034 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2035 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2036 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2037 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2038 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2039 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2040 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2041 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2042 modes
2043 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2044 server addresses
2045 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2046 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2047 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2048 response to getaddrinfo
2049 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2050 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2051 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2052 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2053 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2054 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2055 sometimes incorrect
2056 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2057 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2058 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2059 record types
2060 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2061 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2062 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2063 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2064 (CVE-2016-3075)
2065 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2066 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2067 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2068 resolving symbols
2069 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2070 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2071 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2072 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2073 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2074 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2075 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2076 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2077 gethosts
2078 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2079 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2080 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2081 (CVE-2016-3706)
2082 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2083 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2084 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2085 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2086 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2087 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2088 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2089 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2090 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2091 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2092 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2093 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2094 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2095 executable
2096 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2097 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2098 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2099 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2100 XPG3
2101 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2102 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2103 (CVE-2016-4429)
2104 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2105 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2106 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2107 AS not supporting AVX512
2108 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2109 sNaN argument
2110 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2111 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2112 argument
2113 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2114 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2115 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2116 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2117 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2118 eax=0x80000001
2119 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2120 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2121 subnormals
2122 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2123 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2124 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2125 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2126 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2127 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2128 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2129 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2130 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2131 input
2132 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2133 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2134 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2135 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2136 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2137 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2138 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2139 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2140 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2141 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2142 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2143 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2144 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2145 double rounding
2146 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2147 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2148 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2149 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2150 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2151 (Only arm/linux)
2152 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2153 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2154 fallbacks
2155 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2156 "invalid" exceptions
2157 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2158 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2159 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2160 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2161 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2162 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2163 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2164 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2165 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2169* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2170 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2171 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2172 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2173 89, 16061, and 18568.
2174
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2175* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2176 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2177 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2178 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2179 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2180 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2181 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2182
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2183* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2184 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2185 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2186
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2187* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2188 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2189 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2190 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2191 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2192 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2193 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2194
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2195* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2196 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2197 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2198 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2199 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2200 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2201 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2202 Ericsson.)
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2204* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2205 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2206 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2207 independent of the GNU C Library.
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2209* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2210 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2212* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2213 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2214 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2215 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2216 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2217 Linux kernel.
2218
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2219* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2220 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2222* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2223 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2224 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2225 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2226 defining their own copy.
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2228* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2229 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2230 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2232Security related changes:
2233
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2234* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2235 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2236
2237* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2238 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2239 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2240 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2241 (CVE-2015-8777)
2242
2243* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2244 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2245
2246* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2247 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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2249* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2250 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2251 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2253* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2254 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2255 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2256 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2257 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2258 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2259 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2260 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2261 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2262 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2263 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2264 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2265 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2266
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2269 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2270 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2271 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2272 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2273 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2274 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2275 use `mkstemp'
2276 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2277 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2278 overflow/underflow errors
2279 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2280 overflow/underflow
2281 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2282 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2283 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2284 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2285 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2286 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2287 are not contiguous
2288 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2289 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2290 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2291 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2292 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2293 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2294 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2295 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2296 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2297 all exceptions
2298 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2299 arguments
2300 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2301 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2302 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2303 should include
2304 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2305 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2306 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2307 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2308 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2309 GNU/Linux
2310 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2311 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2312 arguments
2313 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2314 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2315 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2316 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2317 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2318 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2319 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2320 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2321 rounding results
2322 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2323 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2324 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2325 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2326 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2327 fails
2328 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2329 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2330 block boundary
2331 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2332 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2333 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2334 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2335 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2336 4.7?
2337 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2338 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2339 (related to lock elision)
2340 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2341 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2342 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2343 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2344 (CVE-2015-8779)
2345 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2346 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2347 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2348 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2349 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2350 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2351 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2352 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2353 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2354 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2355 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2356 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2357 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2358 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2359 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2360 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2361 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2362 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2363 contains a vector instruction exception.
2364 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2365 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2366 locales
2367 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2368 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2369 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2370 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2371 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2372 missing break ?
2373 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2374 32bit processes
2375 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2376 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2377 infinity
2378 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2379 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2380 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2381 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2382 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2383 be forced unloaded
2384 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2385 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2386 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2387 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2388 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2389 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2390 statically too large
2391 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2392 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2393 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2394 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2395 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2396 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2397 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2398 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2399 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2400 FUTEX_SHARED
2401 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2402 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2403 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2404 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2405 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2406 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2407 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2408 opendir()
2409 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2410 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2411 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2412 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2413 signgam
2414 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2415 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2416 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2417 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2418 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2419 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2420 dependencies
2421 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2422 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2423 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2424 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2425 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2426 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2427 (CVE-2015-8776)
2428 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2429 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2430 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2431 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2432 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2433 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2434 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2435 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2436 contention
2437 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2438 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2439 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2440 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2441 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2442 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2443 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2444 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2445 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2446 rounding modes
2447 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2448 ILP32
2449 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2450 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2451 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2452 threshold
2453 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2454 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2455 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2456 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2457 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2458 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2459 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2460 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2461 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2462 pthread_setaffinity_np
2463 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2464 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2465 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2466 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2467 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2468 prelink
2469 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2470 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2471 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2472 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2473 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2474 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2475 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2476 bits/mathcalls.h
2477 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2478 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2479 for C99-based standards
2480 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2481 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2482 math-only
2483 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2484 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2485 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2486 disabled
2487 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2488 "inexact" exceptions
2489 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2490 arguments
2491 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2492 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2493 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2494 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2495 rules
2496 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2497 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2498 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2499 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2500 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2501 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2502 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2503 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2504 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2505 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2506 from 32bit
2507 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2508 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2509 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2510 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2511 subnormals
2512 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2513 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2514 error on 32-bit architectures
2515 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2516 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2517 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2518 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2519 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2520 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2521 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2522 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2523 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2524 -Os
2525 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2526 CPU's.
2527 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2528 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2529 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2530 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2531 architectures
2532 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2535
2536* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2537
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2539 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2540 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2541 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2542 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2543 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2544 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2545 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2546 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2547 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2548 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2549 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2550 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2551 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2552 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2553 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2554 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2555 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2556 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2557 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2559* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2560 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2561
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2562* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2563 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2564 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2565 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2566 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2567 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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2569* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2570 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2571 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2572 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2573 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2574
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2575* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2576 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2577 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2578
4a4839c9
AO
2579* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2580 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2581 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2582 17998.
2583
b13b96ca
AS
2584* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2585 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2586 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2587
2588* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2589 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2590 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2591 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2592 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2593 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2594 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2595 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2596
2597* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2598 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2599 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2600 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2601
2602* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2603 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2604 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2605
2606* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2607 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2608
2609* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2610 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2611 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2612
a03ba363 2613 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2614 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2615 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2616\f
58b930ae
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2617Version 2.21
2618
2619* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2620
042e1521 2621 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2622 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2623 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2624 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2625 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2626 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2627 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2628 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2629 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2630 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2631 17892.
2632
46d54873
FW
2633* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2634 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2635 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2636 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2637 intended.
042e1521
CD
2638
2639* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2640 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2641 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2642 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2643 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2644 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2645
522e6ee3
CLT
2646* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2647
d3b00f46
AZ
2648* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2649 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2650 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2651
8d2c0a59
AZ
2652* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2653 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2654 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2655 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2656 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2657 effects being visible outside transactions.
2658
dc400d7b
RE
2659* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2660 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2661
0f9dfe04
L
2662* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2663
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CD
2664* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2665 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2666 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2667 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2668 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2669
a5357b7c
JL
2670* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2671 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2672
e54db0ea
AM
2673* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2674 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2675 format.
11e3417a 2676
4863355a
JM
2677* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2678 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2679 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2680
a4ecc9eb
JM
2681* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2682 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2683
0d560bbf 2684* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2685
2686* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2687 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2688 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2689 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2690
2691* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2692 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2693
2694* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2695 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2696 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2697 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2698 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2699 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2700 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2701 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2702 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2703 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2704 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2705 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2706 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2707
2708 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2709 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2710 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2711 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2712 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2713\f
d5b396c1
AM
2714Version 2.20
2715
2716* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2717
6a9350c8
JM
2718 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2719 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2720 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2721 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2722 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2723 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2724 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2725 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2726 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2727 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2728 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2729 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2730 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2731 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2732 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2733
95ee7fb1
SL
2734* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2735 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2736 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2737 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2738 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2739 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2740 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2741 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2742 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2743 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2744
0961f7e1
JL
2745* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2746 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2747 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2748 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2749 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2750
f940b965
RE
2751* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2752
d0f5b3f8
JM
2753* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2754 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2755
d6fe5e58
JM
2756* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2757 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2758 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2759 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2760 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2761 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2762
464263cc
JM
2763* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2764 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2765
2766* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2767 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2768 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2769 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2770 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2771 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2772 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2773
2774* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2775
2776* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2777 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2778 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2779 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2780 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2781 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2782 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2783
2784* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2785 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2786 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2787 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2788 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2789
2790* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2791 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2792 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2793
2794* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2795 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2796 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2797 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2798
2799* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2800 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2801 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2802 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2803 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2804 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2805 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2806 additional checks.
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RM
2807
2808* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2809 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2810 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2811 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2812 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2813 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2814 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2815 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2816 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2817
2818* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2819 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2820 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2821 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2822 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2823 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2824
2825* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2826 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2827 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2828 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2829\f
2830Version 2.19
2831
2832* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2833
fd2f9486
JM
2834 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2835 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2836 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2837 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2838 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2839 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2840 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2841 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2842 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2843 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2844 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2845 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2846 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2847 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2848 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2849 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2850 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2851 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2852
11520a57
CD
2853* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2854 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2855
2fe16229
CD
2856* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2857 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2858 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2859 extension which uses __block.
2860
303e567a
SP
2861* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2862 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2863 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2864 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2865 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2866
141f3a77
SP
2867* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2868 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2869 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2870 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2871 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2872
2873* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2874 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2875 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2876 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2877 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2878
2879* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2880 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2881 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2882
ba0d798c
WN
2883* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2884 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2885 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2886 #15856, #15857).
2887
7cbcdb36
SP
2888* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2889 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2890
82bab04b 2891* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2892 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2893
c5f840fd
MB
2894* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2895
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CD
2896* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2897 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2898
3e181dda 2899* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2900
8a05c252
CL
2901* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2902
6055173a
JM
2903* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2904 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2905 for which the C library was built.
2906
b125d3e5
JM
2907* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2908 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2909 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2910 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2911 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2912 in the following circumstances:
2913
2914 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2915
2916 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2917 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2918
d4f66d37
JM
2919* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2920 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2921
3e181dda
CD
2922* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2923 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2924
ffb89e53
AO
2925* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2926
5d29ccce
SP
2927* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2928 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2929
8b7d57cd 2930* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2931
2932* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2933
fd712ef3 2934* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2935
c688b419
JM
2936* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2937 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2938 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2939 disable some of those declarations.
2940
7011c262 2941* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2942 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2943 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2944
2945* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2946 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2947
2948* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2949 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2950 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2951 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2952 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2953 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2954 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2955 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2956 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2957 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2958 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2959 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2960 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2961\f
2962Version 2.18
2963
2964* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2965
17db6e8d 2966 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2967 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2968 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2969 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2970 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2971 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2972 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2973 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2974 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2975 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2976 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2977 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2978 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2979 15755, 15759.
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2980
2981* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2982 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2983 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2984 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2985 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2986 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2987
5b535ac4
AS
2988* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2989 #15078).
2990
1cef1b19
AS
2991* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2992 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2993
55e4107b
SP
2994* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2995 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2996 destructor calls to glibc.
2997
e5c74c63
SP
2998* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2999 output.
3000
3001* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3002 non-x86 architectures.
3003
e7521973
JM
3004* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3005
3006* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3007
3008* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3009 Richard Henderson.
3010
3011* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3012
3013* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3014 Richard Henderson.
3015
3016* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3017 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3018
8cfdb7e0
SP
3019* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3020
57267616
TS
3021* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3022 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3023
c204ab28
SP
3024* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3025 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3026
0748546f
PE
3027* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3028 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3029 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3030
61dd6208
SP
3031* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3032 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3033 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3034
3035* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3036 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3037 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3038 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3039 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3040
3041* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3042 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3043
3044* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3045\f
3046Version 2.17
3047
3048* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3049
80ceeaee 3050 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3051 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3052 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3053 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3054 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3055 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3056 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3057 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3058 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3059 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3060 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3061 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3062 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3063 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3064 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3065
95b4f1b6
SE
3066* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3067
14bc93a9
JL
3068* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3069 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3070
b54eb3cb
JM
3071* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3072 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3073
7e2bd01f
MS
3074* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3075
08f43f9b
AK
3076* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3077 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3078 zEnterprise z196.
3079 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3080
84b3fd84
FW
3081* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3082 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3083 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3084
815e6fa3
GB
3085* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3086 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3087
400726de
MK
3088* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3089 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3090
7aab07e4 3091* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3092 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3093
15d0da8c
WS
3094* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3095 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3096
3cc3ef96
RM
3097* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3098 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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3099 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3100 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3101
b54eb3cb
JM
3102* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3103 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3104
85429b1a 3105* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3106 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3107 default.
3108
b54eb3cb
JM
3109* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3110 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3111 information in --help and --version output.
3112
050af9c4
SP
3113* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3114 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3115 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3116
89a3ad0b
AO
3117* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3118 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3119 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3120 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3121 when the mode is enabled.
3122
6e6249d0
RM
3123* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3124 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3125 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3126 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3127 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3128 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3129 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3130
d9286582
NK
3131* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3132 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3133\f
3134Version 2.16
3135
3136* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3137
a8133e19
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3138 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3139 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3140 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3141 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3142 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3143 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3144 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3145 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3146 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3147 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3148 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3149 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3150 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3151 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3152 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3153 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3154 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3155 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3156 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3157 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3158 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3159 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3160 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3161
a086b4d6
L
3162* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3163 configuring glibc with:
3164 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3165 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3166 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3167
380d7e87
UD
3168* ISO C11 support:
3169
3170 + define static_assert
3171
3172 + do not declare gets
3173
3174 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3175
3176 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3177 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3178 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3179 implementation.
8d44e150 3180
74033a25 3181 + timespec_get added
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3182
3183 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3184
ac097f5c
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3185 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3186
16dd419d
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3187 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3188
9dc4e1fb 3189* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3190
3191* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3192
3193* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3195
3196* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3198
3199* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3200 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3201 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3202 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3203 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3204
21708942 3205* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3206 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3207 before 2.6.
83678f76 3208
edb00e4d
RH
3209* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3210 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3211 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3212
83678f76 3213* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3214
3215* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3216 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3217 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3218 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3219 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3220
3221* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3222
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3223* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3224 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3225
3226* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3227
3228* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3229 without a previously built glibc.
3230
3231* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3232 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3233
3234* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3235 now supported for ARM processors.
3236
3237* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3238 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3239 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3240
3241* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3242
3243* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3244 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3245 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3246 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3247
3248* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3249 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3250 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3251 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3252
3253* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3254 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3255 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3256 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3257 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3258
3259* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3260 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3261 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3262 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3263\f
e80fab37 3264Version 2.15
11988f8f 3265
c0244a9d
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3266* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3267
aebae053
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3268 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3269 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3270 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3271 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3272 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3273 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3274 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3275
11988f8f
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3276* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3277 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3278
3279* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3280 and support for initgroups lookups.
3281 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3282
3283* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3284 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3285
3286* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3287 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3288
fc2ee42a
LD
3289* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3290 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3291 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3292
d42964a0 3293* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3294 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3295
1d3e4b61
UD
3296* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3297 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3298 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3299
c55fbd1e
UD
3300* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3302
3303* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3305
3306* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3308
3309* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3311
3312* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3313 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3314
3315* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3317
3318* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3319
3320* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3322
f0b264f1
AZ
3323* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3324 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3325
6b64057b 3326* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3327\f
dded88cd 3328Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3329
50934221
UD
3330* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3331
553149f6 3332 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3333 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3334 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3335 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3336 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3337 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3338 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3339 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3340 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3341 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3342
7b57bfe5
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3343* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3344 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3345 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3346 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3347
3348 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3349 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3350 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3352
c6489db3 3353* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3354 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3355
72d1dddb 3356* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3357 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3358
3359* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3360
3361* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3363
3364* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3365 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3366 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3367 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3368\f
4828935d
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3369Version 2.13
3370
ac2b484c
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3371* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3372
c30b7ee2
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3373 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3374 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3375 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3376 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3377 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3378
10b3bedc 3379* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3380
ac2b484c 3381* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3382
e9f82e0d
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3383* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3384 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3386\f
ee1a7fab
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3387Version 2.12
3388
d36b9613
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3389* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3390
2e0fb521
DL
3391 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3392 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3393 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3394 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3395 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3396 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3397 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3398 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3400* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3403
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3405
3406* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3407 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3408 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3409
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3411 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3412 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3413 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3414 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3415
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3419
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3421
3422 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3423 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3424 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3425 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3426 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3427 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3428
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3430 mkostemps64
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3431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3432
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3434 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3435
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3436* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3437 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3438
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3439* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3440
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9d36a6c4 3442 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3443 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3445
9d36a6c4 3446 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3448
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3449* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3450 strstr, strcasestr.
3451 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3452
3453* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3454 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3455
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3457 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3458
3459* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3461
3462* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3463 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3464 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3465 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3466 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3467 necessity is every process again.
3468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3469
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3471 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3472
3473* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3474 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3475
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3477 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3479
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3483
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3485
3486 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3487 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3488 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3489 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3490 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3491
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3494
425ce2ed 3495* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3497
1fdd89a7 3498* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3499 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3502 now in POSIX.
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6cbe890a 3505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3507* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3509
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3510* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3511 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3512
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3513* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3514 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3515
3516* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3517 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3519
735be400 3520* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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3524
3525* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3526 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3528
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3529* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3531
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3532* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3533 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3534 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3535 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3536 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3537 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3540
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3542
3543 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3544 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3545 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3546 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3547 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3548
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3550 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3551
3552* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3553 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3555* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3556 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3558* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3559 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3561
3562* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3563 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3567* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3568 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3570* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3571 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3572 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3573 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3574
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3575* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3576 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3578* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3579 Sinhala)
48b22986 3580 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3582* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3585
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3587
3588 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3589 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3590 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3591 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3592 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3593 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3594 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3595
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3600* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3601 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3602
3603* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3604
3605* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3606 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3607
3608* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3610
3611* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3612 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3613 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3614
3615* Faster memset for x86-64.
3616 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3617
3618* Faster memcpy on x86.
3619 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3620
3621* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3624* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3625 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3627Version 2.7
3628
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3629* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3630
3631 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3632 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3633 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3634 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3635 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3636
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3637* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3638 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3639
3640* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3641
3642* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3643 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3644 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3645
3646* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3647 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3648
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3650 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3651
3652* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3653
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3654* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3656
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3657* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3658 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3659
3660* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3661 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3662
3663* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3664
3665* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3668* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3669 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3670 yo_NG.
3671
3672+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3678
3679 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3680 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3681 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3682 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3683 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3684 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3685 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3686 4702, 4858
3687
bce20b9a 3688* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3690* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3691
b21fa963 3692* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3695
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3696* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3697
3698 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3699 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3700 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3701 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3702 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3703 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3704 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3705 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3706 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3707
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3709 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3712* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3714
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3717* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3719* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3720 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3721 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3724
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3727 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3729
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3730* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3731 Ulrich Drepper.
3732
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3733* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3734
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3735* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3736 Ulrich Drepper.
3737
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3738* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3739
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3740* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3741 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3744
3745* More overflow detection functions.
3746
3747* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3748 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3750 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3751 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3752 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3753 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3754 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3755 by Masahide Washizawa.
3756
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3758 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3760* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3761 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3762 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3763 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3765* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3766 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3767
3768* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3769
3770* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3771 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3772 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3773
3774* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3775 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3776
3777* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3778 for compatibility with some other systems.
3779
3780* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3783
3784* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3785
3786 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3787 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3788 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3789 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3790 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3791 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3792
3793 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3794
3795* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3796
3797* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3800
3801* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3802
3803 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3804 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3805 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3806 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3807
3808 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3811
3812* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3813 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3815* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3816 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3818
3819* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3820 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3821
0325dd20 3822* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3823 efficiently.
3824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3825
3826* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3827 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3828 handling data.
3829
3830* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3831 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3832 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3833
3834* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3835 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3836
3837* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3838 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3839 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3840 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3841
3842* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3843 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3844 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3845 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3846
3847* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3848 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3849 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3850 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3851 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3853Version 2.3.3
3854
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3855* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3856 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3857
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3858* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3859 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3860
69be6aaf 3861* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3862 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3863
3864* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3866
3867* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3868 by Roland McGrath.
3869
c5af724c 3870* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3871 and Ulrich Drepper.
3872
3873* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3874 RFC 3484.
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3876Version 2.3.2
3877
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3878* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3879 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3880 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3881 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3882 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3883 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3884 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3885 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3886 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3887
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3888* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3889 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3890 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3891
3892* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3893
3894* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3895 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3896
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3897* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3898 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3899
52a16e58 3900* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3901
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3902* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3903 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3904
3905* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3906 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3907 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3908 of weak definition in ld.so.
3909
3910* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3911 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3912
3913* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3914 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 3916Version 2.3
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3918* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3919 charsets.
3920
3921* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3922 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3923
bb0ec5bd 3924* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3925 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3926
3927* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3928 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3929
bb0ec5bd 3930* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3931 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3932 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3933
3934* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3935 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3936
bb0ec5bd 3937* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3938 implementation of regex.
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3939
3940* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3941 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3942
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3943* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3944 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3945
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3946* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3947 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3948 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3949
3950* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3951 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3952
3953* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3954 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3955 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3956
3957* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3958 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3959
3960* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3961 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3962 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3963
3964* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3965\f
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3966Version 2.2.6
3967
3968* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3969 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3970
3971* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3972 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3974Version 2.2.5
3975
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3976* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3977 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3978
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3979* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3980 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3981
ad2e4f18 3982* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3983
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3984* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3985
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3986* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3987 as well.
3988
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3989* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3990 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3991
3992* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 3993\f
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3994Version 2.2.4
3995
2995f70e 3996* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3997 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3998
3999* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4000 support Unicode 3.1.
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4001
4002* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4003 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4004
69d5f925 4005* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4006
69d5f925 4007* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4008 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4009 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4010
4011* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4012 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4013
4014* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4015 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4016
4017* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 4018\f
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4019Version 2.2.3
4020
1746f2b0 4021* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4022 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4023 in float, double, and long double format.
4024
f128331c 4025* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4026 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4027 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4028
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4029* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4030 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4031 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4032 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4033
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4034* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4035 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4036 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4037
4038* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4039 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4040
4041* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4042 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4043
4044* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4045 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4046 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4047
4048* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4049 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4050
4051* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4052 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4053
4054* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4056Version 2.2.2
4057
464d97ec 4058* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4059 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4060 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4061 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4062 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4063 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4064 other headers.
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4065
4066* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4067 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4068
4069* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4070 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4071 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4072 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4073
4074* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4075 locales. While
4076
4077 locale -a
4078
4079 only lists the names of the supported locales
4080
4081 locale -a --verbose
4082
4083 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4084 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4086Version 2.2.1
4087
4088* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4089 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4090 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4091 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4092 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4093
4094 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4095
4096 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4097
4098 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4099
4100* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4101 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4102 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4103
4104* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4105 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4106
4107* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4108 changed from the default "C" locale.
4109
4110* The usual bug fixes.
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4112Version 2.2
4113
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4114* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4115 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4116 is in progress.
4117
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4118* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4119
793bd4d9 4120* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4121
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4122 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4123 obviously requires a database library being available.
4124
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4125* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4126
abbffdf9 4127* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4128
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4129* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4130 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4131
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4132* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4133
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4134* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4135 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4136 and Mark Kettenis.
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4137
4138 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4139 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4140 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4141
a00c3ca9 4142 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4143 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4144
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4145* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4146 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4147 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4148
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4149* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4150 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4151 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4153
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4154 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4155 structures for the wide character tables.
4156
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4157* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4158
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4159* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4160
4161* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4162
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4163* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4164 and Yutaka Niibe.
4165
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4166* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4167
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4168* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4169
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4170* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4171
4172* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4173
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4174* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4175
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4176* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4177 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4178 implemented for Linux.
4179
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4180* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4181 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4182 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4183 versions.
4184
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4185* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4186 Masahide Washizawa.
4187
8f3f1e09 4188* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4189\f
4190Version 2.1.3
4191
4192* bug fixes
4193
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4194\f
4195Version 2.1.2
4196
4197* bug fixes
4198
28f540f4 4199\f
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4200Version 2.1.1
4201
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4202* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4203
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4204* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4205
407d26b7 4206* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4207
4208* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4209
407d26b7 4210* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4211
407d26b7 4212* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4213
4214* Update timezone data files.
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4216* lots of charmaps corrections
4217
4218* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4219
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4221Version 2.1
4222
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4223* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4224 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4225 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4226 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4227 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4228 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4229
c84142e8 4230* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4231 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4232
1fb05e3d 4233* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4234 symbol level.
4235
4236* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4237 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4238
cbdee279 4239* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4240
4241* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4242 numbers.
377a515b 4243
cbdee279 4244* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4245
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4246* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4247 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4248
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4249* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4250 library.
4251
e61abf83 4252* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4253 functions from ISO C 9X.
4254
4255* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4256 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4257
a5a0310d 4258* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4259
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4260* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4261
4262* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4263
440d13e2 4264* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4265
4266* Optimized string functions have been added.
4267
4268* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4269
4270* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4271
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4272* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4273 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4274
4275 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4276 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4277
0dee6738 4278 user system wall
48244d09 4279
0dee6738 4280 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4281
0dee6738 4282 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4283
0dee6738 4284 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4286 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4287
4288 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4289
4290 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 4291
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4292 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4293 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4294 horribly slow.
48244d09 4295
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4296 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4297 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4299* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4300
4301* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4302
4303* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4304 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4305
4306* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4307
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4308* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4309 Bambrough.
4310
4311* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4312 latest draft standards.
4313
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4314* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4315
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4316* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4317~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4319alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4320argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4321argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4322argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4323argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4324argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4325argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4326argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4327argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4328argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4329argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4330authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4331authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4332authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4333backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4334backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4335backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4336cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4337cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4338cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4339cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4340cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4341cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4342capget NEW: kernel
4343capset NEW: kernel
4344carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4345cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4346cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4347casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4348casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4349casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4350casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4351casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4352casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4353catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4354catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4355catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4356catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4357catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4358catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4361ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4362ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4363ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4364ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4365ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4366cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4367cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4368cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4369cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4370cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4371cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4372clearerr_locked REMOVED
4373clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4374clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4375clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4376clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4377clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4378clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4379clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4380conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4381conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4382conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4383cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4384cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4385cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4386cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4387cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4388cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4389creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4390crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4391creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4392creat64 NEW: LFS
4393csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4394csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4395csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4396csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4397csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4398csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4399csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4400csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4402ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4403ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4404ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4405ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4406ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4407ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4409ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4410endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4412exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4413exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4414exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4415exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4416exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4417fattach NEW: STREAMS
4418fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4419fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4420fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4421fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4422feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4423fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4424fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4425fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4426feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4427feof_locked REMOVED
4428feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4429ferror_locked REMOVED
4430fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4431fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4432fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4433fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4434feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4435fflush_locked REMOVED
4436ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4437ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4438fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4439fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4440fileno_locked REMOVED
4441fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4442fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4443fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4444fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4445fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4446fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4447fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4448fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4449fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4450fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4452fputc_locked REMOVED
4453fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4454fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4455freopen64 NEW: LFS
4456fseeko NEW: Unix98
4457fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4458fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4459fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4460fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4461ftello NEW: Unix98
4462ftello64 NEW: LFS
4463ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4464ftw64 NEW: LFS
4465fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4466gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4467gamma_r REMOVED
4468gammaf_r REMOVED
4469gammal_r REMOVED
4470getchar_locked REMOVED
4471getdate NEW: Unix98
4472getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4473getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4474getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4475getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4476getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4478getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4479getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4481getutxid NEW: Unix98
4482getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4484globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4485gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4486gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4487grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4488host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4489iconv NEW: iconv
4490iconv_close NEW: iconv
4491iconv_open NEW: iconv
4492if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4493if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4494if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4495if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4496in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4497in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4498inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4499isastream NEW: STREAMS
4500iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4501key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4502key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4503key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4504key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4505key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4506key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4507key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4508key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4509key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4510llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4511llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4512llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4513llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4514llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4515llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4516log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4517log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4518log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4519lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4520lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4521lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4522lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4523lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4524lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4525lseek64 NEW: LFS
4526makecontext NEW: Unix98
4527mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4528mmap64 NEW: LFS
4529moncontrol REMOVED
4530modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4531nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4532nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4533nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4534nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4535nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4536nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4538netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4540nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4541nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4543nftw64 NEW: LFS
4544open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4545passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4546pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4547pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4548pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4549pread NEW: Unix98
4550pread64 NEW: LFS
4551printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4552printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4553profil_counter REMOVED
4554pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4555pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4556ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4557ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4558putc_locked REMOVED
4559putchar_locked REMOVED
4560putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4561putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4562putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4563pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4565pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4566readdir64 NEW: LFS
4567readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4568remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4569remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4570remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4571round NEW: ISO C 9x
4572roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4573roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4574rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4575scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4576scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4577scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4578scandir64 NEW: LFS
4579sendfile NEW: kernel
4580setcontext NEW: Unix98
4581setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4582setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4584sigignore NEW: Unix98
4585sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4586sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4587sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4588sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4589sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4590sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4591sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4592sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4593statfs64 NEW: LFS
4594statvfs NEW: Unix98
4595statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4596strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4597strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4598strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4599strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4600svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4601svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4602svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4603swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4604tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4605tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4606tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4607tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4608tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4609tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4610trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4611truncate64 NEW: LFS
4612truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4613truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4614umount2 NEW: kernel
4615unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4616updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4617user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4618utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4619versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4620versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4621waitid NEW: Unix98
4622wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4623wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4624wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4625wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4626wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4627wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4628wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4629wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4630wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4631wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4632write_profiling REMOVED
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4633xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4634xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4635xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4636xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4637xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4638xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4639xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4640xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4641xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4642xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4643xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4644xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4645xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4646xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4647xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4648~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4649\f
4650Version 2.0.6
4651
4652* more bug fixes
4653
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4654\f
4655Version 2.0.5
4656
4657* more bug fixes
4658
4659* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4660
4661* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4662
4663* rewrite of cbrt function
4664
4665* update of timezone data
4666\f
4667Version 2.0.4
4668
4669* more bug fixes
4670\f
4671Version 2.0.3
4672
4673* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4674\f
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4675Version 2.0.2
4676
4677* more bug fixes
4678
4679* add atoll function
4680
4681* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4683* fix math functions
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4684\f
4685Version 2.0.1
4686
4687* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4688
4689* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4690
4691* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4692 the ELF dynamic loader.
4693
4694* support for parallel builds is improved
4695\f
40a4b79f 4696Version 2.0
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4698* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4699 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4700 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4701
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4702* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4703 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4704 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4705 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4706 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4707 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4708 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4709 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4710 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4711 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4712 files in the ELF format.
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4713
4714* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4715 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4716
4717* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4718 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4719 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4720 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4721 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4722 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4723 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4724 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4725 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4726 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4727 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4729* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4730 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4731 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4732 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4733 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4734
f7eac6eb 4735* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4736 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4737 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4738 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4739 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4740
4741* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4742
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4743* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4744 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4745 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4746 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4747 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4748 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4749 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4750 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4751 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4752
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4753* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4754 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4755 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4756
4757* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4758 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4759 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4760
4761* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4762 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4763 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4764 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4765
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4766* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4767 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4768 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4769
4770* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4771 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4772 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4773
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4774* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4775 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4776
f7eac6eb 4777* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4778 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4779 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4780 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4781
4782* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4783 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4784 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4785
71733723 4786* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4787 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4788 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4789 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4790 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4791 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4792 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4793 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4794
4795* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4796 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4797 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4798 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4799 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4800 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4801 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4802
4803* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4804 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4805 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4806 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4807 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4808 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4809
4810* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4811 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4812
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4813* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4814 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4815 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4817* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4818
4819* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4820 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4821 their use is discouraged.
4822
4823* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4824 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4826* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4827 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4828
4829* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4830 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4831
4832* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4833 see <dirent.h>.
4834
4835* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4836 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4837 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4838 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4839 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4840
4841* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4842 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4843 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4844 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4845
4846* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4847 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4848
4849* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4850 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4851 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4852 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4853 number generator.
4854
4855* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4856 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4857
4858* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4859 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4860
71733723 4861* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4862 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4863 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4864 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4865
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4866* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4867
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4868* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4869 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4870 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4871
4872* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4873 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4875* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4876 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4877 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4878 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4879
4880* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4881 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4882 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4883 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4884 programs already written to use it.)
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4885
4886* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4887 constants.
4888
4889* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4890 with 4.4 BSD.
4891
4892* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4893 a given effective group ID.
4894
4895* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4896 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4897 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4898 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4899
4900* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4901 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4902 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4903 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4904 doing the same thing.
4905
4906* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4907 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4908
4909* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4910 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4911
4912* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4913
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4914* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4915 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4916 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4917 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4918 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4919
4920* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4921 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4922
4923* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4924 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4925 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4926 function.
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4927
4928* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4929
4930* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4931 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4932 strings.
4933
4934* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4935 and writing the utmp file.
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4937* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4938 Thorsten Kukuk.
4939
4940* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4941 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4942 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4943
4944* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4945 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4946
4947* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4948 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4949 specification.
4950
4951* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4952 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4953 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4954 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4955
4956* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4957 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4958 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4959
4960* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4961 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4962 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4963 expression matcher.
4964
4965* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4966 functionality.
4967
4968* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4969 by Ulrich Drepper.
4970
4971* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4972
4973* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4974 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4975 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4977Version 1.09
4978
4979* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4980
4981* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4982 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4983
4984* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4985 want to put themselves in the background.
4986
4987* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4988 run without an operating system.
4989
4990* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4991 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4992
4993* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4994 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4995
4996* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4997
4998* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4999 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5000 have YP (aka NIS).
5001
5002* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5003 conventions.
5004
5005* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5006 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5007\f
5008Version 1.08
5009
5010* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5011 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5012 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5013
5014* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5015 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5016
5017* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5018 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5019
5020* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5021
5022* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5023
5024* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5025 compatibility.
5026
5027* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5028 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5029 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5030
5031* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5032
5033* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5034 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5035 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5036
5037* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5038 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5039 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5040 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5041 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5042 on a block).
5043
5044* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5045 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5046 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5047 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5048 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5049 cross-compiler.
5050
5051* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5052 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5053\f
5054Version 1.07
5055
5056* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5057 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5058
5059* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5060 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5061 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5062
5063* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5064 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5065 address of the last character written.
5066
5067* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5068 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5069
5070* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5071 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5072
5073* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5074 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5075 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5076 you dereference this pointer.
5077
5078* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5079 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5080
5081* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5082 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5083 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5084 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5085
5086* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5087 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5088 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5089 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5090\f
5091Version 1.06
5092
5093* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5094 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5095 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5096 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5097 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5098
5099* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5100
5101* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5102
5103* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5104 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5105
5106* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5107 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5108
5109* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5110 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5111
5112* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5113 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5114 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5115 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5116 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5117
5118* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5119 to the error code in `errno'.
5120
5121* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5122 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5123 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5124 malloc'd string.
5125
5126* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5127 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5128 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5129
5130* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5131 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5133Version 1.05
5134
5135* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5136 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5137 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5138
5139* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5140 characters.
5141
5142* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5143 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5144
5145* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5146\f
5147Version 1.04
5148
5149* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5150 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5151 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5152 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5153
5154* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5155 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5156 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5157
5158* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5159 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5160
5161* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5162 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5163 made itself into a shared library.
5164
5165* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5166 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5167
5168* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5169 with limited length.
5170
5171* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5172
5173* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5174
5175* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5176
5177* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5178 function for traversing a directory tree.
5179
5180* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5181 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5182 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5183 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5184
5185* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5186 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5187
5188* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5189
5190* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5191 things to your strings.
5192
5193* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5194
5195* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5196 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5197 supporting those systems.
5198
5199* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5200 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5201 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5202 configuration files.
5203
5204* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5205 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5206
5207* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5208 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5209 in <strings.h>.)
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5210
5211* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5212 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5213 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5214 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5215 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5216 required storage is not available.
5217
5218* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5219 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5220
5221* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5222 latest files released from Berkeley.
5223\f
5224----------------------------------------------------------------------
5225Copyright information:
5226
09533208 5227Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5228
5229 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5230 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5231 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5232 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5233
5234 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5235 of this document, or of portions of it,
5236 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5237 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5238\f
5239Local variables:
5240version-control: never
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