1 GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2012-1-27
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10 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
12 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 887, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550,
13 2551, 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678,
14 3335, 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596,
15 4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794,
16 6884, 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135,
17 10140, 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 11174,
18 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047, 12097,
19 12193, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495, 13058, 13223,
20 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, 13533,
21 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563, 13566, 13576,
22 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656, 13658, 13673, 13691,
23 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13726, 13738, 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758,
24 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792, 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841,
25 13844, 13846, 13851, 13852, 13854, 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13883,
26 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892, 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913,
27 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917, 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923,
28 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928, 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956,
29 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970, 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012,
30 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036, 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14053,
31 14055, 14059, 14064, 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112,
32 14122, 14123, 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229,
35 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
36 configuring glibc with:
37 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
38 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
39 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
43 + define static_assert
47 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
49 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
50 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
51 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
56 + uchar.h support added
58 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
60 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
62 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
64 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
66 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
67 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
69 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
70 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
72 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
73 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
74 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
75 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
76 existing applications.
78 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
79 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
82 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
83 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
84 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
88 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
89 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
90 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
91 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
92 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
94 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
96 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
99 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
101 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
102 without a previously built glibc.
104 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
105 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
107 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
108 now supported for ARM processors.
110 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
111 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
112 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
114 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
116 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
117 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
118 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
119 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
123 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
125 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
126 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
127 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
128 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
129 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
130 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
131 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
133 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
134 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
136 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
137 and support for initgroups lookups.
138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
140 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
141 Contributed by HJ Lu.
143 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
144 Contributed by HJ Lu.
146 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
147 on x86-32 and x86-64.
148 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
150 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
151 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
153 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
154 for x86-64 and x86-32.
155 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
157 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
158 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
160 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
161 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
163 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
164 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
166 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
167 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
169 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
170 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
172 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
173 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
175 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
177 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
180 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
181 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
183 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
187 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
189 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
190 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
191 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
192 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
193 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
194 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
195 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
196 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
197 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
198 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
200 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
201 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
202 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
203 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
205 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
206 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
207 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
208 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
210 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
211 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
213 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
214 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
216 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
218 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
219 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
221 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
222 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
223 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
224 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
228 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
230 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
231 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
232 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
233 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
236 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
238 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
240 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
241 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
242 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
246 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
248 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, 10918,
249 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, 11007,
250 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, 11093,
251 11115, 11120, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
252 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
253 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
254 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
255 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
257 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
259 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
261 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
263 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
264 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
267 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
268 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
269 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
270 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
271 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
273 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
277 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
279 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
280 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
281 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
282 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
283 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
284 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
286 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
290 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
291 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
293 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
294 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
296 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
298 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
299 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
300 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
301 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
303 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
306 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
308 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
310 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
311 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
313 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
314 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
316 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
319 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
320 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
321 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
322 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
323 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
324 necessity is every process again.
325 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
327 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
328 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
330 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
331 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
333 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
334 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
335 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
337 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
341 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
343 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
344 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
345 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
346 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
347 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
349 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
352 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
355 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
356 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
358 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
361 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
364 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
367 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
368 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
370 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
371 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
373 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
374 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
375 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
377 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
379 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
382 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
383 and extend existing format specifiers.
384 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
386 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
389 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
390 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
391 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
392 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
393 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
398 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
400 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
401 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
402 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
403 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
404 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
406 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
407 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
409 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
410 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
412 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
413 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
415 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
416 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
417 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
419 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
420 Implemented by Eric Blake.
422 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
424 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
425 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
427 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
428 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
429 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
432 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
433 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
435 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
437 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
439 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
443 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
445 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
446 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
447 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
448 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
449 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
450 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
451 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
453 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
455 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
457 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
458 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
460 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
462 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
465 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
466 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
468 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
469 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
470 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
472 * Faster memset for x86-64.
473 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
475 * Faster memcpy on x86.
476 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
478 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
481 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
482 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
486 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
488 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
489 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
490 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
491 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
492 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
494 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
495 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
497 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
499 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
500 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
501 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
503 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
504 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
506 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
507 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
509 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
511 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
514 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
515 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
517 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
518 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
520 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
522 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
525 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
526 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
529 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
534 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
536 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
537 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
538 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
539 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
540 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
541 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
542 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
545 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
547 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
549 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
553 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
555 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
556 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
557 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
558 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
559 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
560 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
561 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
562 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
563 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
565 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
566 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
569 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
572 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
574 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
576 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
577 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
578 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
579 site might have problems with the default behavior.
580 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
582 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
583 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
584 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
585 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
587 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
590 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
592 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
595 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
597 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
598 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
602 * More overflow detection functions.
604 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
605 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
607 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
608 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
609 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
610 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
611 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
612 by Masahide Washizawa.
614 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
615 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
617 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
618 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
619 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
620 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
622 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
623 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
625 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
627 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
628 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
629 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
631 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
632 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
634 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
635 for compatibility with some other systems.
637 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
641 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
643 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
644 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
645 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
646 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
647 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
648 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
650 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
652 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
654 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
658 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
660 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
661 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
662 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
663 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
665 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
669 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
672 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
673 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
674 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
676 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
677 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
679 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
681 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
683 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
684 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
687 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
688 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
689 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
691 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
692 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
694 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
695 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
696 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
697 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
699 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
700 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
701 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
702 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
704 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
705 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
706 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
707 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
708 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
712 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
713 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
715 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
716 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
718 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
719 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
721 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
724 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
727 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
730 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
735 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
736 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
737 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
738 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
739 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
740 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
741 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
742 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
743 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
745 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
746 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
747 and are now also available on the Hurd.
749 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
751 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
752 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
754 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
755 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
757 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
759 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
760 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
762 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
763 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
764 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
765 of weak definition in ld.so.
767 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
768 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
770 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
771 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
775 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
778 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
779 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
781 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
782 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
784 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
785 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
787 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
788 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
789 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
791 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
792 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
794 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
795 implementation of regex.
797 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
800 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
801 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
803 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
804 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
805 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
807 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
808 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
810 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
811 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
812 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
814 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
815 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
817 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
818 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
821 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
825 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
826 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
828 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
829 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
833 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
834 128-bit long double format.
836 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
837 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
839 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
841 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
843 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
846 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
847 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
849 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
853 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
854 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
856 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
859 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
860 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
862 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
864 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
865 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
866 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
868 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
869 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
871 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
872 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
874 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
878 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
879 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
880 in float, double, and long double format.
882 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
883 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
884 128-bit long double format.
886 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
887 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
888 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
889 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
891 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
892 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
893 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
895 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
896 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
898 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
899 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
901 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
902 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
903 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
905 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
906 family of functions for Linux/S390.
908 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
909 of functions for Linux/x86.
911 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
915 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
916 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
917 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
918 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
919 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
920 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
923 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
924 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
926 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
927 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
928 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
929 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
931 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
936 only lists the names of the supported locales
940 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
941 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
945 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
946 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
947 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
948 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
949 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
953 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
955 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
957 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
958 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
959 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
961 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
962 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
964 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
965 changed from the default "C" locale.
967 * The usual bug fixes.
971 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
972 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
975 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
977 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
979 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
980 obviously requires a database library being available.
982 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
984 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
986 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
987 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
989 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
991 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
992 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
995 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
996 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
997 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
999 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
1000 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
1002 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
1003 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
1004 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
1006 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
1007 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
1008 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
1009 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1011 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
1012 structures for the wide character tables.
1014 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1016 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
1018 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
1020 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
1023 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
1025 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
1027 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1029 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
1031 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
1033 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
1034 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
1035 implemented for Linux.
1037 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
1038 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
1039 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
1042 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
1045 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
1059 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
1061 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
1063 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
1065 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
1067 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
1069 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
1071 * Update timezone data files.
1073 * lots of charmaps corrections
1075 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
1080 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
1081 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
1082 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
1083 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
1084 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
1085 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
1087 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1088 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1090 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
1093 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
1094 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
1096 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
1098 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
1101 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
1103 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
1104 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
1106 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
1109 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
1110 functions from ISO C 9X.
1112 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
1113 real valued functions.
1115 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
1117 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
1119 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
1121 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
1123 * Optimized string functions have been added.
1125 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
1127 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
1129 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
1130 daemon for NSS (nscd).
1132 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
1133 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
1137 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
1139 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
1141 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
1143 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
1145 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
1147 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
1149 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
1150 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
1153 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
1154 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
1156 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
1158 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
1160 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
1161 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
1163 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
1165 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
1168 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
1169 latest draft standards.
1171 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
1173 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
1174 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1175 addseverity NEW: Unix98
1176 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
1177 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
1178 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
1179 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
1180 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
1181 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
1182 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
1183 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
1184 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
1185 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
1186 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
1187 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
1188 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
1189 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
1190 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
1191 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
1192 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
1194 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
1195 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
1196 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
1197 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
1198 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
1205 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
1206 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
1207 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
1208 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
1209 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
1211 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
1212 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
1213 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
1214 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
1215 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
1216 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
1220 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
1221 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
1227 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
1228 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
1229 clearerr_locked REMOVED
1230 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
1232 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
1233 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
1234 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
1244 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
1245 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
1247 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
1248 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
1253 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
1254 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
1257 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
1258 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
1262 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
1263 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
1265 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
1266 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
1267 endutxent NEW: Unix98
1269 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
1270 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
1274 fattach NEW: STREAMS
1275 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
1279 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
1280 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
1281 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
1282 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
1283 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
1285 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
1286 ferror_locked REMOVED
1287 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
1288 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
1289 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
1290 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
1291 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
1292 fflush_locked REMOVED
1296 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
1297 fileno_locked REMOVED
1309 fputc_locked REMOVED
1310 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
1311 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
1316 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
1320 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
1322 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
1323 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
1327 getchar_locked REMOVED
1329 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
1330 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
1332 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
1333 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
1334 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
1335 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
1336 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
1337 getutxent NEW: Unix98
1338 getutxid NEW: Unix98
1339 getutxline NEW: Unix98
1340 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
1341 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
1342 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
1343 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
1344 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
1345 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
1347 iconv_close NEW: iconv
1348 iconv_open NEW: iconv
1349 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
1350 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
1351 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
1352 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
1353 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
1354 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
1355 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
1356 isastream NEW: STREAMS
1357 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
1358 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
1359 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
1360 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
1361 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
1362 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
1363 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
1364 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
1365 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
1366 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
1367 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
1368 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
1369 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
1370 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
1371 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
1372 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
1377 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
1378 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
1379 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
1380 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
1381 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
1383 makecontext NEW: Unix98
1384 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
1387 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
1391 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
1392 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
1393 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
1394 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
1395 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
1396 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
1397 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
1398 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
1402 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
1404 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
1405 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
1408 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
1409 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
1410 profil_counter REMOVED
1411 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
1412 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
1413 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
1414 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
1416 putchar_locked REMOVED
1417 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
1419 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
1420 pututxline NEW: Unix98
1424 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
1425 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
1426 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
1427 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
1429 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
1430 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
1432 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
1433 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
1434 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
1436 sendfile NEW: kernel
1437 setcontext NEW: Unix98
1438 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
1439 setutxent NEW: Unix98
1441 sigignore NEW: Unix98
1442 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
1443 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
1444 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
1445 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
1446 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
1447 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
1448 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
1449 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
1453 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
1454 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
1455 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
1456 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
1457 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
1458 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
1459 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
1460 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
1461 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
1462 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
1463 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
1464 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
1465 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
1469 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
1470 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
1472 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
1473 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
1474 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
1475 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
1476 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
1477 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
1479 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
1480 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
1481 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
1482 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
1483 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
1484 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
1485 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
1487 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
1488 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
1489 write_profiling REMOVED
1490 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
1491 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
1492 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
1493 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
1494 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
1495 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
1496 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
1497 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
1498 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
1499 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
1500 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
1501 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
1502 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
1503 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
1504 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
1505 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1516 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
1518 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
1520 * rewrite of cbrt function
1522 * update of timezone data
1536 * add atoll function
1538 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
1540 * fix math functions
1544 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
1546 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
1548 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
1549 the ELF dynamic loader.
1551 * support for parallel builds is improved
1555 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
1556 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
1559 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
1560 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
1561 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
1562 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
1563 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
1564 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
1565 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
1566 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
1567 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
1568 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
1569 files in the ELF format.
1571 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
1572 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
1574 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
1575 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
1576 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
1577 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
1578 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
1579 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
1580 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
1581 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
1582 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
1583 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
1584 about dynamically linked binaries.
1586 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
1587 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
1588 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
1589 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
1590 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
1592 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
1593 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
1594 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
1595 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
1596 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
1598 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
1600 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
1601 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
1602 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
1603 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
1604 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
1605 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
1606 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
1607 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
1608 NSS services available.
1610 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
1611 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
1612 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
1614 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
1615 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
1616 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
1618 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
1619 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
1620 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
1621 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
1623 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
1624 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
1625 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
1627 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
1628 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
1629 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
1631 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
1632 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
1634 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
1635 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
1636 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
1637 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
1639 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
1640 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
1641 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
1643 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
1644 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
1645 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
1646 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
1647 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
1648 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
1649 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
1650 the header file <printf.h> for details.
1652 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
1653 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
1654 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
1655 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
1656 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
1657 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
1658 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
1660 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
1661 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
1662 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
1663 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
1664 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
1665 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
1667 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
1668 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
1670 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
1671 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
1672 NSS scheme used in glibc.
1674 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
1676 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
1677 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
1678 their use is discouraged.
1680 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
1681 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
1683 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
1684 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
1686 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
1687 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
1689 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
1692 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
1693 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
1694 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
1695 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
1696 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
1698 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
1699 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
1700 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
1701 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
1703 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
1704 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
1706 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
1707 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
1708 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
1709 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
1712 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
1713 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
1715 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
1716 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
1718 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
1719 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
1720 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
1721 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
1723 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
1725 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
1726 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
1727 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
1729 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
1730 for arithmetic and string handling.
1732 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
1733 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
1734 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
1735 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
1737 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
1738 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
1739 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
1740 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
1741 programs already written to use it.)
1743 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
1746 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
1749 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
1750 a given effective group ID.
1752 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
1753 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
1754 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
1755 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
1757 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
1758 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
1759 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
1760 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
1761 doing the same thing.
1763 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
1764 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
1766 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
1767 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
1769 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
1771 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
1772 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
1773 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
1774 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
1775 `-ldb' to get these functions.
1777 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
1778 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
1780 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
1781 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
1782 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
1785 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
1787 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
1788 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
1791 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
1792 and writing the utmp file.
1794 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
1797 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
1798 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
1799 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
1801 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
1802 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
1804 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
1805 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
1808 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
1809 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
1810 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
1811 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
1813 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
1814 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
1815 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
1817 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
1818 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
1819 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
1822 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
1825 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
1828 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
1830 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
1831 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
1832 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
1836 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
1838 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
1839 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
1841 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
1842 want to put themselves in the background.
1844 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
1845 run without an operating system.
1847 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
1848 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
1850 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
1851 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
1853 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
1855 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
1856 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
1859 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
1862 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
1863 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
1867 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
1868 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
1869 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
1871 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
1872 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
1874 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
1875 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
1877 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
1879 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
1881 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
1884 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
1885 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
1886 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
1888 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
1890 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
1891 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
1892 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
1894 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
1895 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
1896 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
1897 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
1898 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
1901 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
1902 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
1903 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
1904 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
1905 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
1908 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
1909 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
1913 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
1914 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
1916 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
1917 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
1918 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
1920 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
1921 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
1922 address of the last character written.
1924 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
1925 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
1927 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
1928 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
1930 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
1931 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
1932 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
1933 you dereference this pointer.
1935 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
1936 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
1938 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
1939 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
1940 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
1941 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
1943 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
1944 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
1945 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
1946 EAGAIN in every system call function.
1950 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
1951 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
1952 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
1953 in Emacs or the `info' program.
1954 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
1956 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
1958 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
1960 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
1961 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
1963 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
1964 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
1966 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
1967 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
1969 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
1970 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
1971 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
1972 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
1973 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
1975 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
1976 to the error code in `errno'.
1978 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
1979 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
1980 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
1983 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
1984 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
1985 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
1987 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
1988 uniquely-named temporary file.
1992 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
1993 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
1994 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
1996 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
1999 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
2000 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
2002 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
2006 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
2007 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
2008 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
2009 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
2011 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
2012 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
2013 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
2015 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
2016 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
2018 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
2019 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
2020 made itself into a shared library.
2022 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
2023 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
2025 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
2026 with limited length.
2028 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
2030 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
2032 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
2034 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
2035 function for traversing a directory tree.
2037 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
2038 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
2039 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
2040 formatted output directly to an obstack.
2042 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
2043 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
2045 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
2047 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
2048 things to your strings.
2050 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
2052 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
2053 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
2054 supporting those systems.
2056 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
2057 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
2058 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
2059 configuration files.
2061 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
2062 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
2064 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
2065 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
2068 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
2069 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
2070 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
2071 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
2072 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
2073 required storage is not available.
2075 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
2076 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
2078 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
2079 latest files released from Berkeley.
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