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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
bfff8b1b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
d9814526 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.26
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10Major new features:
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12* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
13 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
14 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
15 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
16 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
17 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
18 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
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20* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
21 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 22 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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24* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
25 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
26 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 28* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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30 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
31 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
32 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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34 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
35 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
36 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
37 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
38 object are still limited to six search domains.
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40 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
41 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
42 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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44* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
45 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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47* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
48 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
49 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
50 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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52* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
53 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
54 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
55 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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57* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
58 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
59 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
60 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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62* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
63 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
64 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 65
2b2ccd0c 66* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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67 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
68 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
69 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 71 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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72 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
73 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
74 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
75 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
76
77 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
78 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
79 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
80 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
81 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
82 interfaces should be used instead.
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84Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
85
86* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
87 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
88 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
89 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
90 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
91 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
92 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
93 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
94
95* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
96 removed.
97
98* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 99 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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100 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
101 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
102
103* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
104 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
105 default.
106
107 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
108 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
109 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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110 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
111 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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113 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
114 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
115 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
116 name service modules, to be built and installed.
117
118* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
119 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
120 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
121 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
122
123* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
124 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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126* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
127 exported by accident.
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129* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
130 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
131 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
132
133* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
134 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
135 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
136 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
137
138* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
139
140* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
141
142* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
143 free instead.
144
145* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
146 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
147
148* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
149 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
150
151* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
152 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
153 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
154 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
155 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
156 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
157 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
158 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
159
160* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
161 synced with the kernel:
162
163 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
164 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
165
166 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
167 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
168 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
169
170 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
171 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
172
173Changes to build and runtime requirements:
174
175* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
176 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
177 x86-32 and x86-64.)
178
7e368000 179* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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181* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
182 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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184 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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185 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
186 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
187 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 188 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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190Security related changes:
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192* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
193 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks.
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195The following bugs are resolved with this release:
196
197 [The release manager will add the list generated by
198 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
199
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201Version 2.25
202
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203* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
204 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
205 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
206 Library.
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208* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
209 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 210 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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211 the GNU C Library.
212
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213* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
214 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
215 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
216 the GNU C Library.
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218* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
219 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
220 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
221 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
222 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
223 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
224 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
225 will not.
226
227 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
228 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
229 many years.
230
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231* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
232 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
233 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
234
235 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
236 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
237 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
238 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
239 problem.
240
ec94343f 241* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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242 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
243 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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245* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
246 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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247 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
248 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
249 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
250 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
251 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
252 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
253 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
254 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
255 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
256 WINT_WIDTH.
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258* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
259
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260 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
261
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262 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
263 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
264 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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266 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
267 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
268
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269 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
270 fminmagf, fminmagl.
271
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272 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
273
29cb9293 274 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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276 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
277 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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279 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
280
eb3c12c7 281 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 282 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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284* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
285 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
286
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287* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
288 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
289 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
290
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291* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
292 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
293 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
294 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
295 effects of the memory clear).
296
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297* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
298 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
299 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
300 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
301
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302* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
303 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
304 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
305 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
306 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
307 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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309* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
310 have been added.
311
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312* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
313 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
314 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
315 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
316 as large as several megabytes.
317
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318* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
319 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
320 been removed.
321
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322* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
323 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
324 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
325 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
326 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
327 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
328 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
329
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330* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
331 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
332 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
333 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
334
099191b1 335* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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336 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
337 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
338 Internet.
339
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340* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
341 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
342 They were already unimplemented.
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344* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
345 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
346 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
347 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
348
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349* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
350 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
351 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
352 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
353 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
354
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355* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
356 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
357 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
358 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
359 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
360
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361* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
362 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
363 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
364 did not reflect that.
365
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367 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
368 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
369 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
370 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
371 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
372 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
373 'gcc/config.gcc'.
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375* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
376 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
377 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
378 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
379
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380* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
381 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
382 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
383 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
384
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385* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
386 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
387 guarantees.
388
389* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
390 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
391 make state changes.
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393Security related changes:
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fc82b0a2 395* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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396 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
397 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
398 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 399 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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401* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
402 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
403 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
404 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
405 (CVE-2015-5180)
406
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407The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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409 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
410 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
411 protector-all
412 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
413 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
414 before it started waiting
415 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
416 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
417 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
418 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
419 wrong type
420 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
421 library linked with pthread
422 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
423 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
424 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
425 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
426 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
427 after being __libc_memalign()'d
428 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
429 when it shouldnt
430 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
431 not
432 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
433 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
434 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
435 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
436 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
437 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
438 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
439 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
440 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
441 termination
442 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
443 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
444 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
445 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
446 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
447 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
448 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
449 causes a segmentation fault
450 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
451 linking
452 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
453 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
454 uninitialized GOT
455 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
456 versions
457 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
458 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
459 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
460 is always true.
461 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
462 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
463 modes
464 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
465 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
466 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
467 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
468 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
469 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
470 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
471 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
472 libpthread.a
473 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
474 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
475 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
476 _res_hconf
477 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
478 information.
479 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
480 penalty
481 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
482 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
483 cause transition penalty
484 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
485 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
486 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
487 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
488 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
489 mcount.oS)
490 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
491 Checking
492 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
493 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
494 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
495 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
496 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
497 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
498 multi-arch
499 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
500 (RES_USEBSTRING)
501 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
502 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
503 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
504 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
505 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
506 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
507 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
508 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
509 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
510 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
511 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
512 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
513 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
514 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
515 glibc
516 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
517 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
518 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
519 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
520 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
521 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
522 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
523 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
524 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
525 U+20AC), not same as GBK
526 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
527 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
528 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
529 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
530 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
531 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
532 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
533 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
534 RES_USE_INET6
535 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
536 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
537 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
538 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
539 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
540 wrong condition
541 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
542 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
543 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
544 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
545 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
546 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
547 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
548 clang
549 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
550 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
551 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
552 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
553 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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557* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
558 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
559 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
560 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
561 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
562 architectures.
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565 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
566 been included in previous releases.
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568* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
569 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
570
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571* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
572 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
573 instead of “union wait”.
574
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575* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
576 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
577 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
578 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
579 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
580 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
581 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
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584 API.
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587 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
588 drop it.
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591 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
592 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
593 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
594 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
595 extensions.
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599* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
600 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
601 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
602
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603* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
604 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
605 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
606 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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608* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
609 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
610 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
611
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612* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
613 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
614 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
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616* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
617 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
618 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
619 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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623 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
624 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
625 of MS-DOS.
626 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
627 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
628 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
629 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
630 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
631 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
632 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
633 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
634 CLDR data
635 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
636 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
637 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
638 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
639 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
640 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
641 romanisation
642 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
643 and +/-
644 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
645 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
646 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
647 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
648 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
649 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
650 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
651 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
652 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
653 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
654 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
655 all locales
656 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
657 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
658 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
659 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
660 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
661 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
662 execute
663 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
664 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
665 -Wsystem-headers
666 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
667 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
668 Romanian locale data
669 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
670 symbol
671 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
672 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
673 language
674 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
675 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
676 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
677 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
678 machine
679 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
680 description
681 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
682 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
683 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
684 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
685 when using RTLD_NEXT
686 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
687 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
688 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
689 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
690 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
691 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
692 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
693 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
694 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
695 Excavator core
696 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
697 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
698 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
699 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
700 double range
701 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
702 part zero incorrect
703 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
704 equality tests
705 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
706 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
707 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
708 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
709 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
710 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
711 glibc-2.22
712 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
713 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
714 'tst-numeric.c'
715 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
716 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
717 low part
718 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
719 result
720 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
721 unaligned stack
722 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
723 pointers and lengths in error-case.
724 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
725 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
726 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
727 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
728 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
729 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
730 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
731 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
732 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
733 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
734 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
735 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
736 modes
737 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
738 server addresses
739 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
740 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
741 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
742 response to getaddrinfo
743 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
744 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
745 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
746 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
747 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
748 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
749 sometimes incorrect
750 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
751 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
752 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
753 record types
754 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
755 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
756 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
757 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
758 (CVE-2016-3075)
759 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
760 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
761 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
762 resolving symbols
763 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
764 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
765 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
766 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
767 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
768 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
769 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
770 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
771 gethosts
772 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
773 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
774 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
775 (CVE-2016-3706)
776 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
777 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
778 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
779 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
780 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
781 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
782 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
783 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
784 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
785 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
786 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
787 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
788 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
789 executable
790 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
791 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
792 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
793 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
794 XPG3
795 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
796 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
797 (CVE-2016-4429)
798 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
799 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
800 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
801 AS not supporting AVX512
802 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
803 sNaN argument
804 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
805 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
806 argument
807 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
808 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
809 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
810 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
811 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
812 eax=0x80000001
813 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
814 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
815 subnormals
816 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
817 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
818 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
819 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
820 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
821 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
822 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
823 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
824 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
825 input
826 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
827 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
828 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
829 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
830 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
831 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
832 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
833 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
834 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
835 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
836 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
837 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
838 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
839 double rounding
840 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
841 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
842 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
843 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
844 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
845 (Only arm/linux)
846 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
847 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
848 fallbacks
849 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
850 "invalid" exceptions
851 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
852 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
853 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
854 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
855 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
856 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
857 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
858 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
859 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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864 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
865 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
866 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
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870 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
871 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
872 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
873 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
874 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
875 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
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878 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
879 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
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881* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
882 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
883 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
884 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
885 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
886 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
887 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
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890 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
891 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
892 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
893 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 894 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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895 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
896 Ericsson.)
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898* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
899 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
900 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
901 independent of the GNU C Library.
902
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903* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
904 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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906* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
907 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
908 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
909 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
910 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
911 Linux kernel.
912
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914 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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916* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
917 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
918 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
919 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
920 defining their own copy.
921
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923 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
924 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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926Security related changes:
927
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928* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
929 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
930
931* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
932 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
933 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
934 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
935 (CVE-2015-8777)
936
937* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
938 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
939
940* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
941 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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943* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
944 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 945 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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948 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
949 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
950 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
951 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
952 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
953 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
954 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
955 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
956 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
957 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
958 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
959 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
960
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963 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
964 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
965 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
966 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
967 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
968 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
969 use `mkstemp'
970 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
971 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
972 overflow/underflow errors
973 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
974 overflow/underflow
975 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
976 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
977 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
978 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
979 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
980 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
981 are not contiguous
982 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
983 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
984 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
985 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
986 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
987 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
988 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
989 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
990 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
991 all exceptions
992 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
993 arguments
994 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
995 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
996 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
997 should include
998 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
999 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1000 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1001 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1002 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1003 GNU/Linux
1004 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1005 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1006 arguments
1007 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1008 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1009 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1010 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1011 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1012 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1013 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1014 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1015 rounding results
1016 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1017 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1018 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1019 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1020 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1021 fails
1022 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1023 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1024 block boundary
1025 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1026 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1027 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1028 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1029 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1030 4.7?
1031 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1032 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1033 (related to lock elision)
1034 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1035 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1036 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1037 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1038 (CVE-2015-8779)
1039 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1040 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1041 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1042 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1043 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1044 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1045 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1046 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1047 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1048 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1049 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1050 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1051 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1052 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1053 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1054 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1055 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1056 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1057 contains a vector instruction exception.
1058 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1059 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1060 locales
1061 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1062 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1063 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1064 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1065 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1066 missing break ?
1067 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1068 32bit processes
1069 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1070 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1071 infinity
1072 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1073 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1074 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1075 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1076 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1077 be forced unloaded
1078 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1079 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1080 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1081 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1082 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1083 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1084 statically too large
1085 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1086 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1087 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1088 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1089 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1090 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1091 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1092 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1093 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1094 FUTEX_SHARED
1095 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1096 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1097 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1098 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1099 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1100 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1101 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1102 opendir()
1103 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1104 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1105 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1106 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1107 signgam
1108 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1109 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1110 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1111 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1112 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1113 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1114 dependencies
1115 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1116 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1117 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1118 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1119 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1120 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1121 (CVE-2015-8776)
1122 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1123 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1124 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1125 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1126 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1127 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1128 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1129 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1130 contention
1131 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1132 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1133 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1134 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1135 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1136 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1137 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1138 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1139 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1140 rounding modes
1141 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1142 ILP32
1143 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1144 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1145 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1146 threshold
1147 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1148 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1149 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1150 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1151 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1152 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1153 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1154 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1155 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1156 pthread_setaffinity_np
1157 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1158 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1159 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1160 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1161 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1162 prelink
1163 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1164 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1165 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1166 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1167 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1168 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1169 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1170 bits/mathcalls.h
1171 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1172 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1173 for C99-based standards
1174 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1175 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1176 math-only
1177 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1178 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1179 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1180 disabled
1181 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1182 "inexact" exceptions
1183 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1184 arguments
1185 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1186 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1187 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1188 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1189 rules
1190 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1191 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1192 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1193 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1194 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1195 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1196 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1197 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1198 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1199 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1200 from 32bit
1201 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1202 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1203 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1204 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1205 subnormals
1206 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1207 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1208 error on 32-bit architectures
1209 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1210 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1211 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1212 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1213 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1214 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1215 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1216 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1217 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1218 -Os
1219 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1220 CPU's.
1221 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1222 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1223 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1224 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1225 architectures
1226 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1229
1230* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1231
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1233 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1234 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1235 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1236 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1237 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1238 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1239 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1240 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1241 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1242 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1243 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1244 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1245 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1246 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1247 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1248 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1249 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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1250 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1251 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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1253* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1254 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1255
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1256* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1257 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1258 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1259 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1260 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1261 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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1263* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1264 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1265 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1266 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1267 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1268
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1270 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1271 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1272
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1273* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1274 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1275 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1276 17998.
1277
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1278* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1279 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1280 condition in some applications.
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1281
1282* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
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1283 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1284 pow, powf.
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1285 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1286 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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1288 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 1289 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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1291* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1292 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1293 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1294 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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1295
1296* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1297 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1298 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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1299
1300* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1301 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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1302
1303* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1304 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1305 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1306
a03ba363 1307 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
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1308 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1309 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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1311Version 2.21
1312
1313* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1314
042e1521 1315 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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1316 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1317 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1318 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1319 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1320 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1321 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1322 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1323 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1324 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1325 17892.
1326
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1327* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1328 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1329 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1330 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1331 intended.
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1332
1333* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1334 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1335 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1336 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1337 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1338 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 1339
522e6ee3
CLT
1340* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1341
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AZ
1342* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1343 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 1344 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 1345
8d2c0a59
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1346* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1347 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1348 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1349 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1350 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1351 effects being visible outside transactions.
1352
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1353* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1354 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 1355
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1356* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1357
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1358* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1359 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 1360 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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1361 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1362 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 1363
a5357b7c
JL
1364* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1365 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1366
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1367* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1368 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1369 format.
11e3417a 1370
4863355a
JM
1371* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1372 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1373 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1374
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JM
1375* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1376 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1377
0d560bbf 1378* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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1379
1380* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1381 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1382 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1383 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
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1384
1385* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1386 with newer versions of bison.
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1387
1388* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1389 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1390 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1391 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1392 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1393 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1394 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1395 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1396 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1397 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1398 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1399 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1400 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1401
1402 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1403 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1404 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1405 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1406 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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1408Version 2.20
1409
1410* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1411
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1412 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1413 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1414 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1415 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1416 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1417 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1418 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1419 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1420 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1421 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1422 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1423 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1424 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1425 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1426 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 1427
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1428* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1429 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1430 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1431 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1432 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 1433 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
1434 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1435 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1436 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1437 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1438
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JL
1439* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1440 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1441 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1442 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1443 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 1444
f940b965
RE
1445* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1446
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1447* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1448 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1449
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JM
1450* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1451 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1452 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1453 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1454 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1455 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1456
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JM
1457* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1458 from ports.
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JM
1459
1460* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1461 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1462 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1463 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1464 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1465 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1466 test macros defined.
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1467
1468* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
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DV
1469
1470* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1471 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1472 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1473 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1474 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1475 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1476 is not built.
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1477
1478* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1479 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1480 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1481 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1482 invocation.
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1483
1484* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1485 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1486 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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1487
1488* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1489 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1490 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1491 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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1492
1493* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1494 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1495 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1496 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1497 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1498 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1499 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1500 additional checks.
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1501
1502* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1503 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1504 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1505 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1506 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1507 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1508 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1509 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1510 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
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1511
1512* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1513 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1514 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1515 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1516 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 1517 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
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FW
1518
1519* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1520 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1521 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1522 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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1524Version 2.19
1525
1526* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1527
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1528 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1529 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1530 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1531 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1532 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1533 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1534 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1535 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1536 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1537 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
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1538 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1539 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1540 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1541 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1542 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
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1543 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1544 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1545 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 1546
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1547* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1548 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1549
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1550* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1551 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1552 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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1553 extension which uses __block.
1554
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SP
1555* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1556 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1557 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1558 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1559 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1560
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SP
1561* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1562 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1563 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1564 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1565 if malloc fails.
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1566
1567* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1568 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1569 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1570 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1571 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
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1572
1573* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1574 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1575 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1576
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1577* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1578 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1579 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1580 #15856, #15857).
1581
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1582* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1583 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1584
82bab04b 1585* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 1586 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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1588* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1589
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1590* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1591 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 1592
3e181dda 1593* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 1594
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1595* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1596
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1597* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1598 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1599 for which the C library was built.
1600
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1601* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1602 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1603 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1604 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1605 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1606 in the following circumstances:
1607
1608 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1609
1610 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1611 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1612
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1613* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1614 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1615
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1616* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1617 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 1618
ffb89e53
AO
1619* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1620
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SP
1621* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1622 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1623
8b7d57cd 1624* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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1625
1626* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 1627
fd712ef3 1628* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 1629
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JM
1630* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1631 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1632 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1633 disable some of those declarations.
1634
7011c262 1635* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
1636 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1637 that did nothing) has also been removed.
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AO
1638
1639* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1640 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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AK
1641
1642* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1643 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1644 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1645 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1646 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1647 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1648 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1649 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1650 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1651 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1652 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1653 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1654 require recompilation.
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1656Version 2.18
1657
1658* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1659
17db6e8d 1660 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
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1661 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1662 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
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1663 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1664 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1665 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1666 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1667 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1668 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1669 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1670 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1671 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1672 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1673 15755, 15759.
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1674
1675* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1676 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1677 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1678 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1679 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1680 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 1681
5b535ac4
AS
1682* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1683 #15078).
1684
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AS
1685* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1686 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 1687
55e4107b
SP
1688* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1689 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1690 destructor calls to glibc.
1691
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SP
1692* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1693 output.
1694
1695* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1696 non-x86 architectures.
1697
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1698* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1699
1700* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1701
1702* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1703 Richard Henderson.
1704
1705* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1706
1707* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1708 Richard Henderson.
1709
1710* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1711 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1712
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1713* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1714
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1715* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1716 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 1717
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1718* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1719 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
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1721* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1722 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1723 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1724
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1725* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1726 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1727 attributes of a process.
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1729* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1730 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1731 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1732 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1733 mutexes.
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1735* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1736 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1737
1738* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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1740Version 2.17
1741
1742* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1743
80ceeaee 1744 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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1745 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1746 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1747 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1748 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1749 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1750 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1751 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1752 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1753 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1754 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1755 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1756 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1757 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1758 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
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1760* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1761
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1762* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1763 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
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1765* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1766 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1767
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1768* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1769
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1770* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1771 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1772 zEnterprise z196.
1773 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1774
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1775* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1776 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1777 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1778
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1779* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1780 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1781
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1782* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1783 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1784
7aab07e4 1785* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 1786 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 1787
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1788* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1789 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1790
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1792 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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1793 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1794 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
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1796* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1797 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1798
85429b1a 1799* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 1800 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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1801 default.
1802
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1803* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1804 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1805 information in --help and --version output.
1806
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1807* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1808 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1809 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1810
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1811* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
1812 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1813 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1814 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1815 when the mode is enabled.
1816
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1818 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1819 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1820 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1821 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1822 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1823 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 1824
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1826 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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1829
1830* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1831
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1832 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1833 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1834 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1835 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1836 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1837 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1838 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1839 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1840 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1841 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1842 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1843 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1844 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1845 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1846 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1847 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1848 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1849 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1850 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1851 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1852 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1853 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1854 14277, 14278.
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1857 configuring glibc with:
1858 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1859 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1860 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1861
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1863
1864 + define static_assert
1865
1866 + do not declare gets
1867
1868 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1869
1870 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1871 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1872 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1873 implementation.
8d44e150 1874
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1877 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 1878
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1879 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
1880
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1881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1882
9dc4e1fb 1883* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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1885* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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1886
1887* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1889
1890* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1892
1893* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1894 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1895 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1896 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1897 existing applications.
ffb7875d 1898
21708942 1899* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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1900 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
1901 before 2.6.
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1903* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
1904 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1905 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1906
83678f76 1907* New locales: mag_IN
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1908
1909* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1910 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1911 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1912 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1913 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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1914
1915* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1916
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1917* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
1918 and Will Schmidt.
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1920* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1921
1922* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1923 without a previously built glibc.
1924
1925* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1926 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1927
1928* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1929 now supported for ARM processors.
1930
1931* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1932 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1933 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1934
1935* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
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1936
1937* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1938 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1939 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1940 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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1942* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1943 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1944 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1945 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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1947* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1948 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1949 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1950 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1951 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1952
1953* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1954 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1955 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1956 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 1958Version 2.15
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1961
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1962 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1963 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1964 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1965 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1966 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1967 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1968 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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1970* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
1971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1973* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1974 and support for initgroups lookups.
1975 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1977* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1978 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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1980* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1981 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 1982
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1983* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
1984 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 1985 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 1986
d42964a0 1987* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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1988 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1989
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1990* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
1991 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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1992 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1993
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1994* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1996
1997* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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1999
2000* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2002
2003* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2005
2006* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2007 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2008
2009* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2012* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2013
2014* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 2016
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2017* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2018 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 2020* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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2024* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2025
553149f6 2026 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 2027 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 2028 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 2029 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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2030 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2031 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2032 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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2033 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2034 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 2035 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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2037* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2038 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2039 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 2040 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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2041
2042 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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2043 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2044 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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2045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2046
c6489db3 2047* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 2048 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 2049
72d1dddb 2050* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 2051 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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2053* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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2055* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2056 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2057
2058* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2059 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2060 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2061 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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2064
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2066
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2067 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2068 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2069 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2070 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2071 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 2072
10b3bedc 2073* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 2074
ac2b484c 2075* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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2077* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2078 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 2079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2082
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2084
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2085 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2086 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2087 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2088 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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2089 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2090 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2091 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 2092 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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2094* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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2096* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2097
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2098* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2099
2100* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2101 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2103
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2105 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2106 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2107 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2108 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2109
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2112Version 2.11
2113
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2115
2116 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2117 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2118 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2119 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2120 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2121 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2122
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2124 mkostemps64
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2125 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2126
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2128 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2129
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2131 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2132
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2134
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9d36a6c4 2136 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 2137 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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2139
9d36a6c4 2140 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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2142
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2144 strstr, strcasestr.
2145 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2146
2147* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2148 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2149
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2151 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2152
2153* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2155
2156* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2157 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2158 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2159 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2160 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2161 necessity is every process again.
2162 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2163
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2165 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2166
2167* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2168 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2169
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2171 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2173
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2177
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2179
2180 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2181 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2182 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2183 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2184 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2185
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2188
425ce2ed 2189* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 2190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 2191
1fdd89a7 2192* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 2193 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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2196 now in POSIX.
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6cbe890a 2199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2203
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2205 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2206
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2208 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2209
2210* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2211 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2212 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2213
735be400 2214* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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2218
2219* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2220 and extend existing format specifiers.
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2222
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2224 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2225
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2227 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2228 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2229 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2230 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2231 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2234
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2236
2237 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2238 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2239 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2240 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2241 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2242
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2245
2246* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2247 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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2249* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2250 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2252* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2253 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2254 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2255
2256* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2257 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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2261* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
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2265 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2266 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2268
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2270 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2273 Sinhala)
48b22986 2274 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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2276* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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2279
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2281
2282 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2283 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2284 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2285 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2286 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2287 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2288 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2289
e038616f 2290* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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2294* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2295 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2296
2297* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2298
2299* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2300 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2301
2302* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2304
2305* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2306 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2307 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2308
2309* Faster memset for x86-64.
2310 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2311
2312* Faster memcpy on x86.
2313 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2314
2315* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2318* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 2319 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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2322
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2324
2325 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2326 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2327 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2328 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2329 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2330
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2331* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2332 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2333
2334* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2335
2336* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2337 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2338 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2339
2340* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2341 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2342
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2345
2346* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2347
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2349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2350
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2351* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2352 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2353
2354* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2355 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2356
2357* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2358
2359* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2362* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2363 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2364 yo_NG.
2365
2366+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2367 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2372
2373 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2374 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2375 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2376 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2377 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2378 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2379 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2380 4702, 4858
2381
bce20b9a 2382* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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2385
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2389
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2390* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2391
2392 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2393 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2394 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2395 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2396 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2397 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2398 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2399 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2400 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2401
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2403 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2406* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2408
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2411* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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2414 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2415 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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2418
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2420 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2421 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2422 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2423
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2425 Ulrich Drepper.
2426
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2427* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2428
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2429* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2430 Ulrich Drepper.
2431
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2432* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2433
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2435 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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2438
2439* More overflow detection functions.
2440
2441* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2442 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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2444 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2445 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2446 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2447 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2448 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2449 by Masahide Washizawa.
2450
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2452 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2454* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2455 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2456 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2457 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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2460 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2461
2462* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2463
2464* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2465 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2466 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2467
2468* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2469 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2470
2471* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2472 for compatibility with some other systems.
2473
2474* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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2477
2478* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2479
2480 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2481 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2482 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2483 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2484 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2485 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2486
2487 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2488
2489* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2490
2491* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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2494
2495* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2496
2497 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2498 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2499 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2500 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2501
2502 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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2505
2506* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2509* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2510 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2512
2513* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2514 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2515
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2517 efficiently.
2518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2519
2520* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2521 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2522 handling data.
2523
2524* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2525 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
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2528* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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2529 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2530
2531* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2532 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2533 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2534 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2535
2536* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2537 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2538 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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2540
2541* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2542 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2543 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2544 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2545 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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2548
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2550 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2551
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2553 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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2557
2558* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2561* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2562 by Roland McGrath.
2563
c5af724c 2564* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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2566
2567* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2568 RFC 3484.
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2573 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2574 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2575 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2576 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2577 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2578 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2579 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2580 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2581
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2582* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2583 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2584 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2585
2586* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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2587
2588* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2589 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 2590
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2591* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2592 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2593
52a16e58 2594* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 2595
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2596* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2597 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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2598
2599* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2600 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2601 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2602 of weak definition in ld.so.
2603
2604* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2605 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2606
2607* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2608 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 2610Version 2.3
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2612* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2613 charsets.
2614
2615* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2616 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 2617
bb0ec5bd 2618* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 2619 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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2620
2621* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2622 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 2623
bb0ec5bd 2624* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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2625 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2626 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2627
2628* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2629 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 2630
bb0ec5bd 2631* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 2632 implementation of regex.
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2633
2634* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2635 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 2636
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2637* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2638 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 2639
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2640* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2641 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2642 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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2643
2644* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 2645 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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2646
2647* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2648 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2649 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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2650
2651* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2652 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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2653
2654* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2655 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2656 and Ulrich Drepper.
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2657
2658* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
2659\f
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2660Version 2.2.6
2661
2662* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2663 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2664
2665* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2666 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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2668Version 2.2.5
2669
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2670* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2671 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 2672
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2673* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2674 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 2675
ad2e4f18 2676* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 2677
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2678* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2679
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2680* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2681 as well.
2682
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2683* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2684 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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2685
2686* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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2688Version 2.2.4
2689
2995f70e 2690* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 2691 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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2692
2693* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2694 support Unicode 3.1.
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2695
2696* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2697 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 2698
69d5f925 2699* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 2700
69d5f925 2701* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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2702 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2703 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2704
2705* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2706 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2707
2708* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2709 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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2710
2711* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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2713Version 2.2.3
2714
1746f2b0 2715* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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2716 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2717 in float, double, and long double format.
2718
f128331c 2719* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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2720 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2721 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 2722
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2723* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2724 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2725 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2726 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2727
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2728* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2729 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2730 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2731
2732* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2733 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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2734
2735* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2736 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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2737
2738* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2739 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2740 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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2741
2742* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2743 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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2744
2745* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2746 of functions for Linux/x86.
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2747
2748* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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2750Version 2.2.2
2751
464d97ec 2752* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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2753 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2754 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2755 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2756 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2757 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2758 other headers.
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2759
2760* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2761 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2762
2763* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2764 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2765 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2766 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2767
2768* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2769 locales. While
2770
2771 locale -a
2772
2773 only lists the names of the supported locales
2774
2775 locale -a --verbose
2776
2777 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2778 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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2780Version 2.2.1
2781
2782* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2783 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2784 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2785 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2786 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2787
2788 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2789
2790 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2791
2792 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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2793
2794* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2795 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2796 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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2797
2798* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2799 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2800
2801* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2802 changed from the default "C" locale.
2803
2804* The usual bug fixes.
d2defdc4 2805\f
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2806Version 2.2
2807
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2808* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2809 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2810 is in progress.
2811
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2812* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2813
793bd4d9 2814* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 2815
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2816 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2817 obviously requires a database library being available.
2818
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2819* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2820
abbffdf9 2821* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 2822
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2823* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2824 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2825
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2826* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2827
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2828* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2829 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2830 and Mark Kettenis.
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2831
2832 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2833 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2834 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 2835
a00c3ca9 2836 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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2837 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2838
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2839* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2840 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2841 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2842
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2843* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2844 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2845 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2847
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2848 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2849 structures for the wide character tables.
2850
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2851* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2852
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2853* The utmp daemon has been removed.
2854
2855* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2856
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2857* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2858 and Yutaka Niibe.
2859
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2860* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2861
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2862* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2863
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2864* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2865
2866* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2867
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2868* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2869
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2870* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2871 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2872 implemented for Linux.
2873
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2874* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2875 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2876 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2877 versions.
2878
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2879* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2880 Masahide Washizawa.
2881
8f3f1e09 2882* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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2883\f
2884Version 2.1.3
2885
2886* bug fixes
2887
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2888\f
2889Version 2.1.2
2890
2891* bug fixes
2892
28f540f4 2893\f
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2894Version 2.1.1
2895
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2896* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2897
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2898* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2899
407d26b7 2900* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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2901
2902* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2903
407d26b7 2904* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 2905
407d26b7 2906* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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2907
2908* Update timezone data files.
27995311 2909
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2910* lots of charmaps corrections
2911
2912* some new locale definitions and charmaps
2913
e518937a 2914\f
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2915Version 2.1
2916
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2917* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2918 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2919 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2920 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2921 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2922 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2923
c84142e8 2924* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 2925 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 2926
1fb05e3d 2927* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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2928 symbol level.
2929
2930* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2931 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 2932
cbdee279 2933* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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2934
2935* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 2936 numbers.
377a515b 2937
cbdee279 2938* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 2939
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2940* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2941 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 2942
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2943* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2944 library.
2945
e61abf83 2946* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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2947 functions from ISO C 9X.
2948
2949* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2950 real valued functions.
e61abf83 2951
a5a0310d 2952* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 2953
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2954* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2955
2956* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 2957
440d13e2 2958* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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2959
2960* Optimized string functions have been added.
2961
2962* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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2963
2964* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 2965
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2966* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2967 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2968
2969 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2970 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2971
0dee6738 2972 user system wall
48244d09 2973
0dee6738 2974 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 2975
0dee6738 2976 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 2977
0dee6738 2978 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
48244d09 2979
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2980 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2981
2982 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2983
2984 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 2985
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2986 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
2987 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 2988 horribly slow.
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2990 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2991 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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2993* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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2994
2995* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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2996
2997* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2998 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2999
3000* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3002* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3003 Bambrough.
3004
3005* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3006 latest draft standards.
3007
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3008* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3009
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3010* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3011~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 3013alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3014argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3015argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3016argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3017argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3018argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3019argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3020argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3021argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3022argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3023argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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3024authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3025authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3026authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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3027backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3028backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3029backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3030cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
3031cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3032cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3033cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3034cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3035cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3036capget NEW: kernel
3037capset NEW: kernel
3038carg NEW: ISO C 9x
3039cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
3040cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
3041casin NEW: ISO C 9x
3042casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3043casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3044casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3045casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3046casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3047catan NEW: ISO C 9x
3048catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3049catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3050catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3051catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3052catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 3053cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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3054ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
3055ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3056ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3057ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3058ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3059ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3060cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
3061cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
3062cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
3063cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
3064cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3065cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3066clearerr_locked REMOVED
3067clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3068clog NEW: ISO C 9x
3069clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3070clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3071clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3072clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
3073clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
3074conj NEW: ISO C 9x
3075conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
3076conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
3077cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
3078cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
3079cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
3080cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
3081cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3082cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3083creal NEW: ISO C 9x
3084crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3085creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3086creat64 NEW: LFS
3087csin NEW: ISO C 9x
3088csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3089csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3090csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3091csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3092csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3093csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
3094csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3095csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3096ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
3097ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3098ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3099ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3100ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3101ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3102des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3103ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3104endutxent NEW: Unix98
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3105exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3106exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3107exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3108exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3109exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3110exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3111fattach NEW: STREAMS
3112fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3113fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
3114fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
3115fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
3116feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3117fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3118fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3119fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3120feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3121feof_locked REMOVED
3122feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3123ferror_locked REMOVED
3124fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3125fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3126fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3127fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3128feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3129fflush_locked REMOVED
3130ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
3131ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
3132fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
3133fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3134fileno_locked REMOVED
3135fma NEW: ISO C 9x
3136fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3137fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
3138fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
3139fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
3140fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
3141fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
3142fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
3143fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 3144fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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3145fopen64 NEW: LFS
3146fputc_locked REMOVED
3147fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3148fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3149freopen64 NEW: LFS
3150fseeko NEW: Unix98
3151fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
3152fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
3153fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3154fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
3155ftello NEW: Unix98
3156ftello64 NEW: LFS
3157ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3158ftw64 NEW: LFS
3159fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3160gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3161gamma_r REMOVED
3162gammaf_r REMOVED
3163gammal_r REMOVED
3164getchar_locked REMOVED
3165getdate NEW: Unix98
3166getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3167getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3168getmsg NEW: STREAMS
3169getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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3172getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3173getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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3174getutxent NEW: Unix98
3175getutxid NEW: Unix98
3176getutxline NEW: Unix98
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3177glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3178globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3179gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3180gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3181grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 3182host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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3183iconv NEW: iconv
3184iconv_close NEW: iconv
3185iconv_open NEW: iconv
3186if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3187if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3188if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3189if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3190in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3191in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3192inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3193isastream NEW: STREAMS
3194iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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3195key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3196key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3197key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3198key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3199key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3200key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3201key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3202key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3203key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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3204llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3205llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3206llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3207llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3208llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3209llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3210log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
3211log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
3212log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
3213lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3214lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3215lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3216lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3217lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3218lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3219lseek64 NEW: LFS
3220makecontext NEW: Unix98
3221mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3222mmap64 NEW: LFS
3223moncontrol REMOVED
3224modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3225nan NEW: ISO C 9x
3226nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3227nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3228nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3229nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3230nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3231netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3232netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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3233nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3234nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3235nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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3237nftw64 NEW: LFS
3238open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 3239passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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3240pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
3241pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3242pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3243pread NEW: Unix98
3244pread64 NEW: LFS
3245printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3246printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3247profil_counter REMOVED
3248pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3249pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3250ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3251ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3252putc_locked REMOVED
3253putchar_locked REMOVED
3254putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3255putmsg NEW: STREAMS
3256putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 3257pututxline NEW: Unix98
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3258pwrite NEW: Unix98
3259pwrite64 NEW: LFS
3260readdir64 NEW: LFS
3261readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3262remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3263remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3264remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3265round NEW: ISO C 9x
3266roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3267roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3268rtime NEW: GNU ext.
3269scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3270scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3271scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3272scandir64 NEW: LFS
3273sendfile NEW: kernel
3274setcontext NEW: Unix98
3275setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 3276setutxent NEW: Unix98
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3278sigignore NEW: Unix98
3279sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3280sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3281sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3282sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3283sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3284sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3285sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3286sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3287statfs64 NEW: LFS
3288statvfs NEW: Unix98
3289statvfs64 NEW: LFS
3290strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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3291strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3292strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3293strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 3294svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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3295svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3296svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3297swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3298tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3299tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3300tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3301tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3302tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3303tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
3304trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
3305truncate64 NEW: LFS
3306truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3307truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3308umount2 NEW: kernel
3309unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 3310updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 3311user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 3312utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3313versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 3314versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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3315waitid NEW: Unix98
3316wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3317wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3318wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3319wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3320wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3321wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3322wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3323wcswcs NEW: Unix98
3324wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3325wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3326write_profiling REMOVED
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3327xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3328xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3329xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3330xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3331xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3332xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3333xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3334xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3335xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3336xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3337xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3338xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3339xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3340xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 3341xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 3342~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3344Version 2.0.6
3345
3346* more bug fixes
3347
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3348\f
3349Version 2.0.5
3350
3351* more bug fixes
3352
3353* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3354
3355* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3356
3357* rewrite of cbrt function
3358
3359* update of timezone data
3360\f
3361Version 2.0.4
3362
3363* more bug fixes
3364\f
3365Version 2.0.3
3366
3367* more bug fixes
c84142e8 3368\f
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3369Version 2.0.2
3370
3371* more bug fixes
3372
3373* add atoll function
3374
3375* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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3376
3377* fix math functions
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3379Version 2.0.1
3380
3381* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3382
3383* dynamic loader preserves all registers
3384
3385* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3386 the ELF dynamic loader.
3387
3388* support for parallel builds is improved
3389\f
40a4b79f 3390Version 2.0
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3392* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3393 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3394 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
3395
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3396* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3397 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3398 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3399 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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3400 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3401 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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3402 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3403 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3404 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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3405 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3406 files in the ELF format.
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3407
3408* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3409 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3410
3411* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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3412 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3413 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3414 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3415 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3416 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3417 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3418 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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3419 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3420 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3421 about dynamically linked binaries.
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3423* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3424 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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3425 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3426 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3427 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 3428
f7eac6eb 3429* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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3430 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3431 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3432 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3433 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3434
3435* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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3437* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3438 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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3439 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3440 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3441 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3442 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3443 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3444 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3445 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 3446
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3447* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3448 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3449 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3450
3451* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3452 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3453 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3454
3455* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3456 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3457 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3458 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3459
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3460* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3461 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3462 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3463
3464* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3465 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3466 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3467
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3468* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3469 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3470
f7eac6eb 3471* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 3472 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 3473 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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3474 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3475
3476* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3477 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3478 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 3479
71733723 3480* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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3481 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3482 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3483 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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3484 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3485 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 3486 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 3487 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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3488
3489* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3490 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3491 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3492 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3493 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3494 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3495 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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3496
3497* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3498 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3499 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3500 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3501 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3502 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3503
3504* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3505 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3506
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3507* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3508 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3509 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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3511* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3512
3513* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3514 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3515 their use is discouraged.
3516
3517* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3518 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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3520* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3521 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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3522
3523* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3524 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3525
3526* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3527 see <dirent.h>.
3528
3529* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3530 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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3531 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3532 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3533 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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3534
3535* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3536 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3537 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3538 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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3539
3540* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3541 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3542
3543* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3544 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3545 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3546 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3547 number generator.
3548
3549* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3550 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3551
3552* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3553 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3554
71733723 3555* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 3556 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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3557 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3558 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 3559
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3560* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3561
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3562* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3563 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3564 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3565
3566* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3567 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 3569* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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3570 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3571 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3572 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3573
3574* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3575 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3576 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3577 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3578 programs already written to use it.)
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3579
3580* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3581 constants.
3582
3583* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3584 with 4.4 BSD.
3585
3586* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3587 a given effective group ID.
3588
3589* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3590 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3591 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3592 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3593
3594* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 3595 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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3596 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3597 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3598 doing the same thing.
3599
3600* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3601 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3602
3603* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 3604 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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3605
3606* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3607
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3608* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3609 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3610 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 3611 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 3612 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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3613
3614* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3615 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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3616
3617* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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3618 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3619 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3620 function.
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3621
3622* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3623
3624* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3625 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3626 strings.
3627
3628* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3629 and writing the utmp file.
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3630
3631* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3632 Thorsten Kukuk.
3633
3634* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3635 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3636 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3637
3638* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3639 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3640
3641* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3642 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3643 specification.
3644
3645* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3646 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3647 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3648 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3649
3650* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3651 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3652 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3653
3654* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3655 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3656 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3657 expression matcher.
3658
3659* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3660 functionality.
3661
3662* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3663 by Ulrich Drepper.
3664
3665* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3666
3667* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3668 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3669 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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3671Version 1.09
3672
3673* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3674
3675* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3676 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3677
3678* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3679 want to put themselves in the background.
3680
3681* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3682 run without an operating system.
3683
3684* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3685 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3686
3687* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3688 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3689
3690* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3691
3692* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3693 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3694 have YP (aka NIS).
3695
3696* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3697 conventions.
3698
3699* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3700 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3701\f
3702Version 1.08
3703
3704* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3705 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3706 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3707
3708* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3709 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3710
3711* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3712 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3713
3714* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3715
3716* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3717
3718* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3719 compatibility.
3720
3721* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3722 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3723 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3724
3725* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3726
3727* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3728 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3729 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3730
3731* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3732 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3733 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3734 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3735 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3736 on a block).
3737
3738* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3739 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3740 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3741 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3742 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3743 cross-compiler.
3744
3745* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3746 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3747\f
3748Version 1.07
3749
3750* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3751 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3752
3753* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3754 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3755 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3756
3757* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3758 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3759 address of the last character written.
3760
3761* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3762 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3763
3764* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3765 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3766
3767* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3768 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3769 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3770 you dereference this pointer.
3771
3772* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3773 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3774
3775* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3776 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3777 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3778 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3779
3780* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3781 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3782 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3783 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3784\f
3785Version 1.06
3786
3787* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3788 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3789 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3790 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 3791 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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3793* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3794
3795* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3796
3797* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3798 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3799
3800* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3801 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3802
3803* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3804 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3805
3806* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3807 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3808 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3809 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3810 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3811
3812* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3813 to the error code in `errno'.
3814
3815* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3816 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3817 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3818 malloc'd string.
3819
3820* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3821 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3822 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3823
3824* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3825 uniquely-named temporary file.
3826\f
3827Version 1.05
3828
3829* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3830 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3831 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3832
3833* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3834 characters.
3835
3836* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3837 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3838
3839* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3840\f
3841Version 1.04
3842
3843* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3844 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3845 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3846 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3847
3848* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3849 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3850 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3851
3852* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3853 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3854
3855* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3856 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3857 made itself into a shared library.
3858
3859* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3860 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3861
3862* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3863 with limited length.
3864
3865* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3866
3867* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3868
3869* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3870
3871* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3872 function for traversing a directory tree.
3873
3874* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3875 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3876 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3877 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3878
3879* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3880 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3881
3882* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3883
3884* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3885 things to your strings.
3886
3887* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3888
3889* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3890 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3891 supporting those systems.
3892
3893* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3894 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3895 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3896 configuration files.
3897
3898* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3899 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3900
3901* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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3902 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3903 in <strings.h>.)
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3904
3905* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3906 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3907 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3908 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3909 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3910 required storage is not available.
3911
3912* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3913 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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3915* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3916 latest files released from Berkeley.
3917\f
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3919Copyright information:
3920
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3922
3923 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
3924 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
3925 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
3926 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
3927
3928 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
3929 of this document, or of portions of it,
3930 under the above conditions, provided also that they
3931 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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