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12 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
21 * Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
22 Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
23 alternative month names.
25 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
28 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
30 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
31 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
32 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
34 * The stdio.h functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
35 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
36 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
37 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
38 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
39 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
41 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
42 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
43 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
44 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
45 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
46 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
49 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
50 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
51 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
52 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
53 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
56 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
57 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
58 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
60 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
62 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
64 Security related changes:
66 [Add security related changes here]
68 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
70 [The release manager will add the list generated by
71 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
78 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
79 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
80 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
81 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
82 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
83 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
84 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
85 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
86 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
88 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
89 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
92 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
94 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
96 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
97 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
98 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
99 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
100 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
101 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
102 from a security and performance perspective.
104 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
105 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
106 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
107 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
109 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
110 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
111 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
112 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
113 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
115 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
116 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
117 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
118 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
121 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
122 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
123 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
125 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
127 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
128 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
131 * The copy_file_range function was added.
133 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
135 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
136 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
137 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
139 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
140 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
141 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
142 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
143 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
144 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
145 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
147 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
148 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
149 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
150 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
151 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
152 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
153 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
155 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
156 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
157 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
158 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
161 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
162 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
163 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
164 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
166 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
167 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
168 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
170 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
171 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
172 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
174 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
175 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
176 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
182 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
184 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
185 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
186 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
187 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
188 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
189 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
190 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
191 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
192 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
195 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
196 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
197 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
199 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
200 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
201 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
202 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
203 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
204 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
205 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
206 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
207 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
208 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
209 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
210 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
211 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
212 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
213 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
214 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
215 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
216 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
217 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
218 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
219 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
220 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
221 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
222 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
223 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
224 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
226 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
227 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
229 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
230 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
231 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
232 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
233 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
234 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
235 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
237 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
238 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
239 exp10l for these functions instead.
241 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
242 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
243 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
245 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
246 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
249 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
250 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
251 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
252 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
254 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
255 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
257 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
258 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
260 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
263 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
265 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
266 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
267 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
270 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
271 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
272 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
273 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
274 use, but predates the bits convention.
276 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
278 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
281 Security related changes:
283 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
284 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
285 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
286 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
289 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
290 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
291 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
292 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
294 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
295 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
296 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
299 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
300 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
301 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
303 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
304 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
305 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
306 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
308 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
309 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
310 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
313 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
314 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
315 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
316 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
317 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
319 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
320 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
323 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
324 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
325 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
327 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
328 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
329 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
331 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
332 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
333 small, instead of NULL.
335 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
337 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
338 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
339 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
341 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
342 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
343 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
345 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
346 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
347 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
348 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
349 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
350 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
351 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
352 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
353 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
355 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
356 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
357 width Latin characters
358 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
359 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
360 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
362 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
363 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
365 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
366 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
367 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
368 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
369 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
371 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
372 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
373 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
374 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
375 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
376 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
377 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
378 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
379 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
380 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
382 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
383 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
384 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
385 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
386 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
387 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
388 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
389 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
391 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
392 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
394 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
395 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
397 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
398 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
399 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
400 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
401 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
402 __regcall calling convention
403 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
404 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
405 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
406 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
407 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
408 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
409 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
410 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
411 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
412 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
413 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
414 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
415 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
417 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
419 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
421 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
422 consistency check failures
423 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
424 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
425 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
426 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
428 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
430 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
431 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
432 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
433 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
434 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
435 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
436 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
437 on memory allocation failure
438 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
439 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
441 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
443 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
444 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
445 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
446 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
447 instead of EAI_NODATA
448 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
449 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
450 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
451 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
453 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
454 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
455 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
456 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
457 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
458 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
459 allocation in syscall loops)
460 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
461 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
462 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
463 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
464 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
465 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
466 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
467 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
468 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
470 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
471 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
472 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
474 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
475 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
477 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
479 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
480 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
481 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
482 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
483 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
484 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
485 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
486 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
487 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
488 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
489 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
490 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
491 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
492 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
493 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
494 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
495 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
496 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
498 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
500 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
501 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
503 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
504 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
505 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
506 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
508 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
509 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
510 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
511 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
512 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
513 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
514 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
515 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
516 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
517 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
518 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
520 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
521 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
522 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
523 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
524 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
525 the svid compat wrapper
526 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
527 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
528 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
529 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
530 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
531 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
533 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
534 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
536 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
537 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
538 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
539 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
540 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
541 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
543 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
544 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
545 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
546 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
548 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
549 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
551 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
552 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
553 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
554 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
555 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
556 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
557 inside the ASCII printable range
558 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
560 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
561 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
562 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
564 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
565 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
567 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
568 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
569 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
571 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
573 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
574 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
575 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
576 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
577 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
578 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
579 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
580 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
581 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
583 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
584 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
585 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
586 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
587 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
588 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
590 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
591 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
592 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
594 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
596 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
597 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
598 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
599 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
600 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
602 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
603 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
604 modified in case of success
605 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
606 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
608 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
610 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
611 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
612 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
613 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
614 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
615 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
616 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
617 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
619 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
620 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
621 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
622 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
623 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
624 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
625 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
626 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
627 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
629 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
631 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
633 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
634 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
635 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
637 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
638 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
640 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
641 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
642 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
643 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
644 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
645 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
646 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
647 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
648 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
655 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
656 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
657 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
658 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
659 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
660 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
661 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
663 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
664 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
665 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
666 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
667 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
668 are rendered with pango, see for example:
669 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
671 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
672 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
675 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
677 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
678 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
679 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
681 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
682 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
683 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
684 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
685 object are still limited to six search domains.
687 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
688 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
689 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
691 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
692 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
694 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
695 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
696 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
697 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
699 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
700 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
701 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
702 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
704 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
705 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
706 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
707 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
709 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
710 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
711 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
713 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
714 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
715 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
716 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
718 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
719 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
720 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
721 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
722 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
724 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
725 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
726 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
727 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
728 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
729 interfaces should be used instead.
731 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
733 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
734 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
735 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
736 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
737 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
738 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
739 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
740 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
742 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
745 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
746 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
747 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
748 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
750 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
751 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
754 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
755 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
756 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
757 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
758 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
760 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
761 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
762 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
763 name service modules, to be built and installed.
765 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
766 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
767 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
768 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
770 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
771 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
773 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
774 exported by accident.
776 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
777 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
778 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
780 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
781 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
782 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
783 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
785 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
787 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
789 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
792 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
793 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
795 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
796 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
798 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
799 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
800 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
801 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
802 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
803 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
804 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
805 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
807 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
808 synced with the kernel:
810 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
811 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
813 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
814 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
815 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
817 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
818 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
820 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
822 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
823 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
826 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
828 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
829 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
831 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
832 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
833 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
834 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
835 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
837 Security related changes:
839 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
840 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
842 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
843 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
845 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
846 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
849 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
850 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
852 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
854 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
855 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
856 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
858 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
860 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
861 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
862 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
864 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
865 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
866 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
867 x86 and other generic code
868 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
869 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
871 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
872 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
873 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
874 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
875 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
876 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
877 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
879 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
880 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
881 order of 0D36 and 0D37
882 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
884 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
885 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
887 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
889 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
890 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
891 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
893 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
894 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
895 failures consistently
896 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
897 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
898 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
899 frame-pointer on i386
900 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
902 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
903 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
904 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
905 generic c code is used
906 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
907 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
909 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
911 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
912 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
914 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
915 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
916 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
917 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
918 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
919 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
920 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
921 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
922 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
923 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
925 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
927 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
928 new posix_spawn implementation
929 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
930 leads to lower CPU frequency
931 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
932 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
933 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
934 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
935 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
936 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
937 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
938 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
939 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
940 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
941 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
942 not support gethostbyname4_r
943 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
945 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
947 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
948 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
949 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
950 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
951 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
952 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
953 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
955 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
956 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
957 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
958 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
959 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
960 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
961 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
962 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
963 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
964 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
965 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
966 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
968 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
969 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
970 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
971 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
972 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
973 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
974 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
975 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
977 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
978 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
979 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
980 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
981 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
982 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
983 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
984 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
985 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
986 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
987 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
988 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
989 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
990 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
991 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
992 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
993 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
994 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
995 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
996 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
997 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
999 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1000 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1001 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1002 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1003 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1005 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1006 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1008 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1009 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1011 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1012 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1014 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1015 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1016 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1017 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1019 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1020 leading to relocation crash
1021 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1022 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1023 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1024 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1025 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1026 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1027 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1028 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1029 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1031 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1033 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1034 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1035 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1036 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1037 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1038 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1039 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1040 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1042 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1044 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1046 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1047 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1048 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1049 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1050 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1051 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1052 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1053 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1054 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1055 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1056 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1057 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1058 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1059 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1060 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1061 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1062 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1063 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1064 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1065 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1066 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1067 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1068 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1069 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1070 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1071 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1072 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1074 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1075 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1076 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1077 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1078 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1083 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1084 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1085 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1088 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1089 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1090 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1093 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1094 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1095 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1098 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1099 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1100 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1101 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1102 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1103 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1104 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1107 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1108 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1111 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1112 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1113 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1115 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1116 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1117 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1118 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1121 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1122 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1123 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1125 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1126 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1127 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1128 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1129 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1130 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1131 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1132 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1133 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1134 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1135 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1138 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1140 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1142 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1143 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1144 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1146 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1147 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1149 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1152 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1154 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1156 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1157 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1159 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1161 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1162 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1164 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1165 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1167 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1168 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1169 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1171 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1172 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1173 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1174 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1175 effects of the memory clear).
1177 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1178 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1179 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1180 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1182 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1183 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1184 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1185 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1186 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1187 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1189 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1192 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1193 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1194 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1195 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1196 as large as several megabytes.
1198 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1199 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1202 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1203 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1204 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1205 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1206 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1207 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1208 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1210 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1211 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1212 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1213 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1215 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1216 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1217 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1220 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1221 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1222 They were already unimplemented.
1224 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1225 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1226 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1227 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1229 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1230 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1231 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1232 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1233 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1235 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1236 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1237 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1238 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1239 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1241 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1242 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1243 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1244 did not reflect that.
1246 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1247 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1248 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1249 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1250 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1251 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1252 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1255 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1256 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1257 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1258 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1260 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1261 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1262 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1263 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1265 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1266 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1269 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1270 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1273 Security related changes:
1275 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1276 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1277 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1278 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1279 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1281 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1282 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1283 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1284 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1287 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1289 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1290 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1292 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1293 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1294 before it started waiting
1295 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1296 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1297 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1298 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1300 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1301 library linked with pthread
1302 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1303 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1304 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1305 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1306 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1307 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1308 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1310 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1312 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1313 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1314 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1315 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1316 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1317 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1318 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1319 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1320 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1322 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1323 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1324 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1325 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1326 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1327 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1328 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1329 causes a segmentation fault
1330 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1332 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1333 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1335 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1337 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1338 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1339 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1341 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1342 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1344 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1345 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1346 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1347 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1348 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1349 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1350 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1351 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1353 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1354 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1355 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1357 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1359 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1361 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1362 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1363 cause transition penalty
1364 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1365 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1366 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1367 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1368 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1370 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1372 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1373 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1374 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1375 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1376 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1377 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1379 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1381 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1382 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1383 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1384 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1385 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1386 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1387 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1388 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1389 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1390 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1391 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1392 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1393 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1394 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1396 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1397 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1398 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1399 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1400 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1401 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1402 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1403 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1404 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1405 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1406 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1407 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1408 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1409 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1410 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1411 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1412 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1413 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1415 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1416 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1417 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1418 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1419 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1421 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1422 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1423 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1424 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1425 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1426 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1427 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1429 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1430 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1431 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1432 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1433 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1437 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1438 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1439 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1440 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1441 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1444 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1445 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1446 been included in previous releases.
1448 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1449 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1451 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1452 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1453 instead of “union wait”.
1455 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1456 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1457 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1458 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1459 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1460 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1461 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1463 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1466 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1467 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1470 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1471 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1472 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1473 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1474 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1477 Security related changes:
1479 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1480 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1481 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1483 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1484 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1485 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1486 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1488 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1489 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1490 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1492 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1493 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1494 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1496 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1497 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1498 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1499 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1501 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1503 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1504 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1506 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1507 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1508 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1509 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1510 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1511 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1512 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1513 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1515 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1516 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1517 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1518 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1519 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1520 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1522 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1524 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1525 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1526 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1527 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1528 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1529 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1530 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1531 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1532 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1533 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1534 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1536 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1537 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1538 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1539 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1540 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1541 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1543 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1544 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1546 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1547 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1548 Romanian locale data
1549 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1551 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1552 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1554 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1555 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1556 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1557 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1559 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1561 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1562 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1563 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1564 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1565 when using RTLD_NEXT
1566 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1567 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1568 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1569 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1570 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1571 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1572 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1573 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1574 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1576 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1577 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1578 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1579 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1581 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1583 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1585 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1586 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1587 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1588 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1589 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1590 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1592 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1593 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1595 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1596 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1598 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1600 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1602 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1603 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1604 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1605 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1606 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1607 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1608 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1609 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1610 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1611 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1612 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1613 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1614 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1615 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1617 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1619 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1620 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1621 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1622 response to getaddrinfo
1623 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1624 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1625 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1626 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1627 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1628 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1630 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1631 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1632 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1634 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1635 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1636 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1637 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1639 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1640 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1641 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1643 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1644 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1645 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1646 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1647 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1648 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1649 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1650 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1652 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1653 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1654 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1656 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1657 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1658 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1659 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1660 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1661 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1662 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1663 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1664 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1665 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1666 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1667 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1668 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1670 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1671 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1672 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1673 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1675 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1676 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1678 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1679 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1680 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1681 AS not supporting AVX512
1682 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1684 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1685 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1687 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1688 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1689 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1690 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1691 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1693 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1694 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1696 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1697 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1698 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1699 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1700 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1701 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1702 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1703 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1704 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1706 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1707 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1708 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1709 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1710 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1711 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1712 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1713 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1714 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1715 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1716 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1717 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1718 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1720 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1721 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1722 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1723 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1724 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1726 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1727 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1729 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1730 "invalid" exceptions
1731 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1732 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1733 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1734 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1735 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1736 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1737 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1738 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1739 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1743 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1744 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1745 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1746 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1747 89, 16061, and 18568.
1749 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1750 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1751 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1752 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1753 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1754 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1755 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1757 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1758 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1759 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1761 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1762 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1763 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1764 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1765 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1766 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1767 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1769 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1770 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1771 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1772 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1773 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1774 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1775 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1778 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1779 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1780 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1781 independent of the GNU C Library.
1783 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1784 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1786 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1787 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1788 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1789 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1790 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1793 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1794 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1796 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1797 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1798 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1799 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1800 defining their own copy.
1802 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1803 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1804 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1806 Security related changes:
1808 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1809 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1811 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1812 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1813 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1814 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1817 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1818 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1820 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1821 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1823 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1824 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1825 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1827 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1828 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1829 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1830 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1831 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1832 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1833 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1834 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1835 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1836 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1837 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1838 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1839 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1841 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1843 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1844 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1845 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1846 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1847 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1848 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1850 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1851 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1852 overflow/underflow errors
1853 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1855 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1856 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1857 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1858 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1859 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1860 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1862 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1863 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1864 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1865 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1866 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1867 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1868 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1869 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1870 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1872 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1874 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1875 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1876 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1878 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1879 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1880 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1881 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1882 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1884 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1885 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1887 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1888 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1889 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1890 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1891 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1892 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1893 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1894 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1896 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1897 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1898 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1899 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1900 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1902 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1903 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1905 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1906 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1907 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1908 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1909 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1911 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1912 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1913 (related to lock elision)
1914 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1915 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1916 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1917 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1919 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1920 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1921 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1922 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1923 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1924 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1925 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1926 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1927 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1928 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1929 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1930 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1931 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1932 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1933 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1934 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1935 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1936 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1937 contains a vector instruction exception.
1938 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1939 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1941 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1942 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1943 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1944 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1945 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1947 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1949 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1950 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1952 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1953 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1954 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1955 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1956 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1958 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1959 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1960 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1961 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1962 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1963 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1964 statically too large
1965 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1966 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1967 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1968 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1969 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1970 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1971 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1972 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1973 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1975 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1976 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1977 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1978 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1979 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1980 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1981 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1983 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1984 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1985 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1986 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1988 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1989 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1990 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1991 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1992 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1993 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1995 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1996 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1997 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1998 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1999 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2000 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2002 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2003 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2004 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2005 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2006 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2007 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2008 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2009 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2011 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2012 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2013 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2014 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2015 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2016 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2017 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2018 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2019 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2021 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2023 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2024 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2025 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2027 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2028 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2029 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2030 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2031 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2032 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2033 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2034 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2035 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2036 pthread_setaffinity_np
2037 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2038 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2039 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2040 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2041 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2043 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2044 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2045 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2046 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2047 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2048 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2049 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2051 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2052 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2053 for C99-based standards
2054 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2055 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2057 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2058 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2059 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2061 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2062 "inexact" exceptions
2063 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2065 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2066 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2067 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2068 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2070 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2071 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2072 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2073 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2074 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2075 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2076 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2077 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2078 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2079 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2081 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2082 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2083 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2084 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2086 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2087 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2088 error on 32-bit architectures
2089 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2090 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2091 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2092 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2093 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2094 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2095 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2096 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2097 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2099 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2101 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2102 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2103 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2104 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2106 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2110 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2112 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2113 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2114 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2115 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2116 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2117 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2118 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2119 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2120 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2121 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2122 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2123 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2124 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2125 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2126 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2127 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2128 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2129 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2130 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2131 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2133 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2134 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2136 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2137 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2138 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2139 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2140 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2141 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2143 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2144 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2145 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2146 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2147 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2149 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2150 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2151 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2153 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2154 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2155 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2158 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2159 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2160 condition in some applications.
2162 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2163 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2165 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2166 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2167 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2168 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2169 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2171 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2172 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2173 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2174 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2176 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2177 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2178 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2180 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2181 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2183 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2184 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2185 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2187 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2188 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2189 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2193 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2195 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2196 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2197 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2198 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2199 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2200 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2201 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2202 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2203 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2204 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2207 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2208 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2209 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2210 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2213 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2214 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2215 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2216 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2217 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2218 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2220 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2222 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2223 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2224 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2226 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2227 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2228 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2229 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2230 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2231 effects being visible outside transactions.
2233 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2234 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2236 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2238 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2239 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2240 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2241 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2242 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2244 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2245 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2247 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2248 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2251 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2252 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2253 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2255 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2256 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2258 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2260 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2261 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2262 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2263 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2265 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2266 with newer versions of bison.
2268 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2269 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2270 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2271 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2272 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2273 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2274 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2275 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2276 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2277 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2278 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2279 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2280 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2282 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2283 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2284 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2285 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2286 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2290 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2292 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2293 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2294 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2295 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2296 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2297 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2298 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2299 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2300 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2301 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2302 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2303 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2304 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2305 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2306 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2308 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2309 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2310 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2311 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2312 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2313 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2314 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2315 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2316 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2317 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2319 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2320 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2321 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2322 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2323 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2325 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2327 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2328 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2330 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2331 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2332 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2333 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2334 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2335 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2337 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2340 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2341 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2342 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2343 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2344 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2345 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2346 test macros defined.
2348 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2350 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2351 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2352 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2353 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2354 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2355 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2358 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2359 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2360 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2361 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2364 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2365 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2366 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2368 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2369 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2370 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2371 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2373 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2374 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2375 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2376 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2377 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2378 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2379 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2382 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2383 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2384 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2385 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2386 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2387 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2388 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2389 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2390 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2392 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2393 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2394 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2395 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2396 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2397 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2399 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2400 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2401 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2402 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2406 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2408 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2409 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2410 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2411 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2412 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2413 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2414 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2415 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2416 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2417 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2418 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2419 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2420 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2421 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2422 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2423 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2424 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2425 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2427 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2428 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2430 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2431 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2432 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2433 extension which uses __block.
2435 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2436 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2437 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2438 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2439 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2441 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2442 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2443 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2444 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2447 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2448 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2449 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2450 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2451 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2453 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2454 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2455 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2457 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2458 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2459 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2462 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2463 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2465 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2466 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2468 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2470 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2473 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2475 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2477 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2478 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2479 for which the C library was built.
2481 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2482 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2483 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2484 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2485 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2486 in the following circumstances:
2488 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2490 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2491 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2493 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2494 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2496 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2497 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2499 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2501 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2502 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2504 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2506 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2508 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2510 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2511 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2512 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2513 disable some of those declarations.
2515 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2516 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2517 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2519 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2520 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2522 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2523 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2524 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2525 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2526 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2527 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2528 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2529 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2530 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2531 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2532 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2533 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2534 require recompilation.
2538 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2540 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2541 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2542 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2543 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2544 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2545 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2546 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2547 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2548 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2549 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2550 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2551 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2552 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2555 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2556 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2557 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2558 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2559 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2560 understands and accepts the risks.
2562 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2565 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2566 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2568 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2569 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2570 destructor calls to glibc.
2572 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2575 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2576 non-x86 architectures.
2578 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2580 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2582 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2585 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2587 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2590 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2591 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2593 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2595 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2596 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2598 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2599 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2601 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2602 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2603 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2605 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2606 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2607 attributes of a process.
2609 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2610 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2611 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2612 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2615 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2616 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2618 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2622 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2624 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2625 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2626 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2627 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2628 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2629 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2630 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2631 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2632 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2633 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2634 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2635 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2636 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2637 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2638 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2640 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2642 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2643 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2645 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2646 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2648 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2650 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2651 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2653 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2655 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2656 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2657 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2659 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2660 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2662 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2663 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2665 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2666 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2668 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2669 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2671 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2672 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2673 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2674 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2676 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2677 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2679 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2680 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2683 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2684 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2685 information in --help and --version output.
2687 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2688 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2689 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2691 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2692 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2693 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2694 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2695 when the mode is enabled.
2697 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2698 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2699 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2700 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2701 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2702 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2703 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2705 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2710 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2712 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2713 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2714 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2715 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2716 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2717 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2718 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2719 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2720 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2721 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2722 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2723 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2724 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2725 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2726 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2727 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2728 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2729 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2730 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2731 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2732 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2733 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2736 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2737 configuring glibc with:
2738 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2739 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2740 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2744 + define static_assert
2746 + do not declare gets
2748 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2750 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2751 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2752 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2755 + timespec_get added
2757 + uchar.h support added
2759 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2763 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2765 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2767 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2770 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2771 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2773 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2774 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2775 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2776 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2777 existing applications.
2779 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2780 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2783 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2784 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2785 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2787 * New locales: mag_IN
2789 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2790 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2791 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2792 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2793 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2795 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2797 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2800 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2802 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2803 without a previously built glibc.
2805 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2806 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2808 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2809 now supported for ARM processors.
2811 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2812 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2813 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2815 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2817 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2818 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2819 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2820 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2822 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2823 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2824 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2825 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2827 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2828 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2829 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2830 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2831 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2833 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2834 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2835 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2836 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2840 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2842 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2843 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2844 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2845 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2846 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2847 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2848 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2850 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2853 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2854 and support for initgroups lookups.
2855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2857 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2858 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2860 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2861 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2863 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2864 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2865 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2867 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2868 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2870 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2871 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2872 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2874 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2877 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2880 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2883 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2886 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2887 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2889 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2892 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2894 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2897 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2898 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2900 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2904 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2906 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2907 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2908 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2909 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
2910 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2911 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2912 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
2913 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2914 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
2915 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
2917 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2918 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2919 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
2920 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
2922 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
2923 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2924 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
2925 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2927 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
2928 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
2930 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
2931 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
2933 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
2935 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2936 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2938 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2939 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2940 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2941 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
2945 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2947 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2948 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2949 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2950 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2953 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
2955 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
2957 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2958 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
2959 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2963 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2965 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2966 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2967 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2968 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
2969 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2970 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2971 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
2972 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
2974 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
2976 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2978 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2980 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2981 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2982 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2984 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2985 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2986 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2987 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2990 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
2994 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2996 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2997 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2998 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2999 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3000 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3001 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3003 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3007 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3008 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3010 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3011 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3013 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3015 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3016 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3017 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3018 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3020 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3021 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3023 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3025 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3027 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3028 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3030 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3031 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3033 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3036 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3037 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3038 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3039 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3040 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3041 necessity is every process again.
3042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3044 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3045 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3047 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3048 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3050 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3051 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3054 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3058 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3060 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3061 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3062 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3063 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3064 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3066 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3069 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3070 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3072 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3073 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3075 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3078 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3081 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3084 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3085 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3087 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3088 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3090 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3091 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3094 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3096 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3099 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3100 and extend existing format specifiers.
3101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3103 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3106 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3107 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3108 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3109 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3110 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3111 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3117 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3118 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3119 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3120 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3121 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3123 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3124 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3126 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3127 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3129 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3130 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3132 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3133 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3134 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3136 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3137 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3139 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3141 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3142 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3144 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3145 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3146 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3149 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3150 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3152 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3154 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3156 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3160 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3162 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3163 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3164 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3165 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3166 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3167 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3168 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3170 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3172 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3174 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3175 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3177 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3179 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3180 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3182 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3185 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3186 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3187 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3189 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3190 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3192 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3193 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3195 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3199 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3203 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3205 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3206 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3207 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3208 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3209 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3211 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3212 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3214 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3216 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3217 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3218 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3220 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3221 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3223 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3224 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3226 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3228 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3231 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3232 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3234 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3235 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3237 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3239 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3242 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3243 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3246 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3247 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3251 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3253 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3254 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3255 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3256 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3257 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3258 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3259 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3262 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3264 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3266 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3270 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3272 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3273 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3274 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3275 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3276 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3277 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3278 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3279 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3280 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3282 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3283 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3286 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3289 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3291 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3293 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3294 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3295 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3296 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3299 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3300 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3301 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3304 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3307 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3309 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3312 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3314 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3315 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3319 * More overflow detection functions.
3321 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3322 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3324 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3325 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3326 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3327 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3328 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3329 by Masahide Washizawa.
3331 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3332 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3334 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3335 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3336 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3337 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3339 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3340 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3342 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3344 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3345 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3346 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3348 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3349 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3351 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3352 for compatibility with some other systems.
3354 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3358 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3360 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3361 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3362 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3363 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3364 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3365 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3367 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3369 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3371 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3375 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3377 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3378 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3379 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3380 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3382 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3386 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3389 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3390 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3393 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3394 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3396 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3400 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3401 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3404 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3405 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3406 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3408 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3409 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3411 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3412 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3413 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3414 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3416 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3417 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3418 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3419 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3421 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3422 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3423 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3424 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3425 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3429 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3430 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3432 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3433 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3435 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3436 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3438 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3439 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3441 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3444 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3447 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3452 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3453 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3454 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3455 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3456 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3457 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3458 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3459 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3460 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3462 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3463 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3464 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3466 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3468 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3469 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3471 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3472 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3474 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3476 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3477 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3479 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3480 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3481 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3482 of weak definition in ld.so.
3484 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3485 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3487 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3488 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3492 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3495 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3496 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3498 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3499 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3501 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3502 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3504 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3505 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3506 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3508 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3509 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3511 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3512 implementation of regex.
3514 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3517 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3518 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3520 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3521 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3522 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3524 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3525 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3527 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3528 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3529 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3531 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3532 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3534 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3535 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3538 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3542 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3543 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3545 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3546 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3550 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3551 128-bit long double format.
3553 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3554 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3556 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3558 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3560 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3563 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3564 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3566 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3570 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3571 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3573 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3574 support Unicode 3.1.
3576 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3577 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3579 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3581 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3582 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3583 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3585 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3586 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3588 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3589 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3591 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3595 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3596 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3597 in float, double, and long double format.
3599 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3600 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3601 128-bit long double format.
3603 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3604 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3605 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3606 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3608 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3609 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3610 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3612 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3613 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3615 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3616 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3618 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3619 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3620 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3622 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3623 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3625 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3626 of functions for Linux/x86.
3628 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3632 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3633 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3634 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3635 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3636 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3637 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3640 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3641 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3643 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3644 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3645 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3646 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3648 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3653 only lists the names of the supported locales
3657 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3658 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3662 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3663 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3664 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3665 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3666 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3668 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3670 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3672 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3674 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3675 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3676 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3678 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3679 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3681 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3682 changed from the default "C" locale.
3684 * The usual bug fixes.
3688 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3689 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3692 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3694 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3696 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3697 obviously requires a database library being available.
3699 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3701 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3703 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3704 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3706 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3708 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3709 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3712 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3713 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3714 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3716 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3717 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3719 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3720 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3721 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3723 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3724 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3725 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3728 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3729 structures for the wide character tables.
3731 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3733 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3735 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3737 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3740 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3742 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3744 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3746 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3748 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3750 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3751 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3752 implemented for Linux.
3754 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3755 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3756 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3759 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3762 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3776 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3778 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3780 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3782 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3784 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3786 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3788 * Update timezone data files.
3790 * lots of charmaps corrections
3792 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3797 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3798 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3799 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3800 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3801 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3802 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3804 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3805 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3807 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3810 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3811 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3813 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3815 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3818 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3820 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3821 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3823 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3826 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3827 functions from ISO C 9X.
3829 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3830 real valued functions.
3832 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3834 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3836 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3838 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3840 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3842 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3844 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3846 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3847 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3849 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3850 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3854 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3856 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3858 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3860 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3862 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3864 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3866 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3867 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3870 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3871 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3873 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3875 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3877 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3878 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3880 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3882 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3885 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3886 latest draft standards.
3888 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3890 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3891 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3892 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3893 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3894 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3895 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3896 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3897 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3898 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3899 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3900 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3901 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3902 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3903 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3904 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3905 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3906 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3907 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3908 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3909 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3911 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3912 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3913 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3914 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3915 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3922 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3923 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3924 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3925 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3926 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3928 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3929 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3930 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3931 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3932 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3933 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3937 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3938 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3944 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3945 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3946 clearerr_locked REMOVED
3947 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3949 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3950 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3951 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3961 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3962 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3964 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3965 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3970 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3971 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3974 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3975 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3979 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3980 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3982 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3983 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3984 endutxent NEW: Unix98
3986 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3987 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3991 fattach NEW: STREAMS
3992 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3996 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3997 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3998 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3999 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4000 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4002 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4003 ferror_locked REMOVED
4004 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4005 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4006 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4007 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4008 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4009 fflush_locked REMOVED
4013 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4014 fileno_locked REMOVED
4026 fputc_locked REMOVED
4027 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4028 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4033 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4037 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4039 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4040 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4044 getchar_locked REMOVED
4046 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4047 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4049 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4050 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4051 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4052 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4053 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4054 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4055 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4056 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4057 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4058 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4059 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4060 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4061 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4062 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4064 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4065 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4066 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4067 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4068 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4069 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4070 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4071 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4072 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4073 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4074 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4075 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4076 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4077 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4078 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4079 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4080 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4081 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4082 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4083 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4084 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4085 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4086 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4087 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4088 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4089 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4094 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4095 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4096 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4097 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4098 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4100 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4101 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4104 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4108 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4109 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4110 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4111 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4112 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4113 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4114 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4115 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4119 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4121 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4122 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4125 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4126 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4127 profil_counter REMOVED
4128 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4129 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4130 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4131 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4133 putchar_locked REMOVED
4134 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4136 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4137 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4141 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4142 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4143 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4144 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4146 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4147 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4149 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4150 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4151 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4153 sendfile NEW: kernel
4154 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4155 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4156 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4158 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4159 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4160 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4161 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4162 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4163 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4164 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4165 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4166 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4170 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4171 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4172 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4173 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4174 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4175 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4176 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4177 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4178 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4179 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4180 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4181 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4182 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4186 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4187 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4189 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4190 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4191 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4192 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4193 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4194 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4196 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4197 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4198 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4199 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4200 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4201 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4202 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4204 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4205 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4206 write_profiling REMOVED
4207 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4208 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4209 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4210 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4211 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4212 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4213 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4214 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4215 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4216 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4217 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4218 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4219 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4220 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4221 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4222 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4233 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4235 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4237 * rewrite of cbrt function
4239 * update of timezone data
4253 * add atoll function
4255 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4257 * fix math functions
4261 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4263 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4265 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4266 the ELF dynamic loader.
4268 * support for parallel builds is improved
4272 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4273 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4276 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4277 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4278 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4279 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4280 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4281 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4282 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4283 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4284 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4285 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4286 files in the ELF format.
4288 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4289 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4291 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4292 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4293 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4294 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4295 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4296 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4297 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4298 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4299 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4300 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4301 about dynamically linked binaries.
4303 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4304 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4305 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4306 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4307 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4309 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4310 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4311 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4312 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4313 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4315 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4317 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4318 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4319 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4320 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4321 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4322 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4323 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4324 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4325 NSS services available.
4327 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4328 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4329 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4331 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4332 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4333 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4335 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4336 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4337 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4338 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4340 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4341 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4342 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4344 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4345 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4346 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4348 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4349 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4351 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4352 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4353 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4354 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4356 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4357 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4358 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4360 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4361 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4362 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4363 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4364 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4365 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4366 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4367 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4369 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4370 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4371 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4372 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4373 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4374 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4375 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4377 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4378 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4379 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4380 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4381 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4382 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4384 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4385 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4387 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4388 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4389 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4391 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4393 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4394 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4395 their use is discouraged.
4397 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4398 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4400 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4401 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4403 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4404 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4406 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4409 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4410 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4411 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4412 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4413 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4415 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4416 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4417 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4418 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4420 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4421 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4423 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4424 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4425 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4426 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4429 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4430 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4432 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4433 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4435 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4436 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4437 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4438 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4440 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4442 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4443 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4444 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4446 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4447 for arithmetic and string handling.
4449 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4450 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4451 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4452 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4454 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4455 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4456 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4457 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4458 programs already written to use it.)
4460 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4463 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4466 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4467 a given effective group ID.
4469 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4470 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4471 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4472 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4474 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4475 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4476 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4477 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4478 doing the same thing.
4480 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4481 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4483 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4484 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4486 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4488 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4489 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4490 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4491 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4492 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4494 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4495 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4497 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4498 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4499 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4502 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4504 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4505 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4508 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4509 and writing the utmp file.
4511 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4514 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4515 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4516 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4518 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4519 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4521 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4522 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4525 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4526 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4527 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4528 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4530 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4531 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4532 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4534 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4535 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4536 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4539 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4542 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4545 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4547 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4548 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4549 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4553 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4555 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4556 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4558 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4559 want to put themselves in the background.
4561 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4562 run without an operating system.
4564 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4565 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4567 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4568 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4570 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4572 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4573 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4576 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4579 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4580 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4584 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4585 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4586 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4588 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4589 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4591 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4592 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4594 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4596 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4598 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4601 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4602 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4603 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4605 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4607 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4608 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4609 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4611 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4612 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4613 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4614 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4615 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4618 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4619 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4620 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4621 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4622 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4625 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4626 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4630 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4631 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4633 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4634 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4635 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4637 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4638 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4639 address of the last character written.
4641 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4642 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4644 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4645 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4647 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4648 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4649 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4650 you dereference this pointer.
4652 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4653 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4655 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4656 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4657 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4658 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4660 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4661 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4662 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4663 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4667 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4668 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4669 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4670 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4671 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4673 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4675 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4677 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4678 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4680 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4681 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4683 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4684 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4686 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4687 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4688 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4689 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4690 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4692 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4693 to the error code in `errno'.
4695 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4696 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4697 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4700 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4701 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4702 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4704 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4705 uniquely-named temporary file.
4709 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4710 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4711 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4713 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4716 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4717 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4719 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4723 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4724 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4725 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4726 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4728 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4729 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4730 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4732 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4733 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4735 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4736 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4737 made itself into a shared library.
4739 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4740 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4742 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4743 with limited length.
4745 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4747 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4749 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4751 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4752 function for traversing a directory tree.
4754 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4755 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4756 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4757 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4759 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4760 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4762 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4764 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4765 things to your strings.
4767 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4769 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4770 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4771 supporting those systems.
4773 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4774 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4775 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4776 configuration files.
4778 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4779 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4781 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4782 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4785 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4786 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4787 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4788 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4789 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4790 required storage is not available.
4792 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4793 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4795 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4796 latest files released from Berkeley.
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