1 List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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4 Time-stamp: <1999-07-06T15:37:11-0700 drepper>
6 This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
7 make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
8 of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
10 Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
11 GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
13 http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
15 I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
16 reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
17 in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
18 `glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. Before reporting
19 a bug please check the FAQ since it discusses also a lot of problematic
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25 Severity: [ *] to [***]
28 [ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
30 [ **] The RPC code is not 64 bit clean. This is getting slowly fixed
31 but expect incompatible changes on 64 bit platforms like Alpha.
33 [ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
36 [ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
37 NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
38 is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
39 symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
42 [ *] The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
43 which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
44 which are not defined in the charmap.
47 [ *] When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
48 directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
49 checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
51 [PR libc/207 and PR libc/454]
53 [ *] The libm-ieee `gamma' function gives wrong results (at least for
56 [ *] The libm-ieee `scalb' function gives wrong results for
57 non-integral second parameters.
59 [ *] The strftime() implementation cannot handle multibyte locales really
60 good since the TOLOWER and TOUPPER are not prepared.
62 [ *] The putenv() function copies it's argument which means that the
63 string (and possible later changes to it) are not automatically
64 reflected in the environment.
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