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10 * Unicode 9.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
11 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 9.0.0, using
12 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
14 * The rpcgen, librpcsvc and related headers will only be built and
15 installed when glibc is configured with --enable-obsolete-rpc.
16 This allows alternative RPC implementations, like TIRPC, to be used
17 by default. Applications needing features missing from TIRPC should
18 consider the rpcsvc-proto project developed by Thorsten Kukuk (SUSE).
20 Security related changes:
22 [Add security related changes here]
24 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
26 [The release manager will add the list generated by
27 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
32 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
33 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
34 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
37 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
38 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
39 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
42 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
43 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
44 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
47 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
48 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
49 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
50 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
51 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
52 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
53 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
56 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
57 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
60 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
61 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
62 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
64 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
65 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
66 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
67 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
70 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
71 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
72 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
74 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
75 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
76 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
77 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
78 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
79 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
80 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
81 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
82 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
83 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
84 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
87 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
89 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
91 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
92 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
93 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
95 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
96 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
98 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
101 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
103 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
105 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
106 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
108 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
110 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
111 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
113 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
114 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
116 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
117 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
118 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
120 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
121 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
122 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
123 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
124 effects of the memory clear).
126 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
127 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
128 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
129 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
131 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
132 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
133 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
134 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
135 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
136 if they are compiled or used with those options.
138 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
141 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
142 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
143 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
144 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
145 as large as several megabytes.
147 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
148 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
151 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
152 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
153 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
154 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
155 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
156 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
157 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
159 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
160 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
161 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
162 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
164 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
165 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
166 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
169 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
170 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
171 They were already unimplemented.
173 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
174 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
175 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
176 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
178 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
179 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
180 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
181 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
182 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
184 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
185 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
186 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
187 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
188 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
190 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
191 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
192 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
193 did not reflect that.
195 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
196 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
197 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
198 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
199 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
200 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
201 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
204 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
205 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
206 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
207 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
209 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
210 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
211 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
212 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
214 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
215 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
218 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
219 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
222 Security related changes:
224 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
225 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
226 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
227 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
228 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
230 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
231 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
232 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
233 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
236 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
238 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
239 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
241 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
242 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
243 before it started waiting
244 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
245 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
246 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
247 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
249 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
250 library linked with pthread
251 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
253 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
254 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
255 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
256 after being __libc_memalign()'d
257 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
259 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
261 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
262 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
263 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
264 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
265 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
266 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
267 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
268 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
269 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
271 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
272 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
273 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
274 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
275 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
276 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
277 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
278 causes a segmentation fault
279 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
281 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
282 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
284 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
286 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
287 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
288 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
290 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
291 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
293 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
294 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
295 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
296 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
297 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
298 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
299 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
300 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
302 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
303 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
304 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
306 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
308 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
310 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
311 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
312 cause transition penalty
313 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
314 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
315 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
316 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
317 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
319 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
321 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
322 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
323 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
324 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
325 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
326 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
328 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
330 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
331 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
332 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
333 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
334 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
335 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
336 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
337 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
338 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
339 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
340 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
341 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
342 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
343 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
345 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
346 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
347 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
348 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
349 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
350 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
351 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
352 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
353 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
354 U+20AC), not same as GBK
355 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
356 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
357 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
358 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
359 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
360 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
361 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
362 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
364 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
365 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
366 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
367 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
368 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
370 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
371 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
372 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
373 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
374 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
375 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
376 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
378 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
379 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
380 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
381 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
382 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
386 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
387 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
388 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
389 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
390 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
393 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
394 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
395 been included in previous releases.
397 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
398 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
400 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
401 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
402 instead of “union wait”.
404 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
405 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
406 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
407 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
408 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
409 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
410 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
412 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
415 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
416 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
419 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
420 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
421 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
422 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
423 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
426 Security related changes:
428 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
429 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
430 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
432 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
433 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
434 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
435 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
437 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
438 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
439 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
441 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
442 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
443 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
445 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
446 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
447 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
448 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
450 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
452 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
453 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
455 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
456 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
457 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
458 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
459 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
460 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
461 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
462 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
464 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
465 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
466 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
467 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
468 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
469 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
471 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
473 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
474 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
475 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
476 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
477 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
478 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
479 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
480 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
481 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
482 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
483 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
485 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
486 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
487 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
488 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
489 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
490 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
492 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
493 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
495 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
496 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
498 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
500 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
501 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
503 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
504 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
505 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
506 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
508 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
510 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
511 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
512 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
513 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
515 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
516 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
517 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
518 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
519 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
520 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
521 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
522 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
523 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
525 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
526 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
527 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
528 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
530 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
532 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
534 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
535 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
536 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
537 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
538 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
539 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
541 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
542 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
544 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
545 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
547 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
549 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
551 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
552 pointers and lengths in error-case.
553 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
554 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
555 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
556 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
557 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
558 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
559 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
560 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
561 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
562 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
563 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
564 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
566 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
568 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
569 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
570 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
571 response to getaddrinfo
572 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
573 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
574 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
575 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
576 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
577 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
579 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
580 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
581 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
583 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
584 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
585 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
586 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
588 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
589 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
590 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
592 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
593 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
594 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
595 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
596 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
597 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
598 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
599 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
601 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
602 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
603 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
605 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
606 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
607 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
608 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
609 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
610 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
611 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
612 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
613 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
614 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
615 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
616 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
617 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
619 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
620 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
621 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
622 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
624 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
625 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
627 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
628 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
629 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
630 AS not supporting AVX512
631 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
633 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
634 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
636 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
637 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
638 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
639 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
640 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
642 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
643 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
645 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
646 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
647 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
648 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
649 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
650 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
651 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
652 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
653 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
655 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
656 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
657 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
658 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
659 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
660 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
661 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
662 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
663 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
664 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
665 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
666 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
667 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
669 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
670 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
671 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
672 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
673 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
675 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
676 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
678 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
680 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
681 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
682 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
683 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
684 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
685 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
686 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
687 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
688 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
692 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
693 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
694 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
695 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
696 89, 16061, and 18568.
698 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
699 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
700 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
701 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
702 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
703 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
704 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
706 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
707 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
708 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
710 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
711 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
712 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
713 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
714 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
715 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
716 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
718 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
719 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
720 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
721 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
722 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
723 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
724 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
727 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
728 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
729 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
730 independent of the GNU C Library.
732 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
733 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
735 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
736 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
737 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
738 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
739 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
742 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
743 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
745 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
746 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
747 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
748 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
749 defining their own copy.
751 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
752 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
753 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
755 Security related changes:
757 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
758 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
760 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
761 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
762 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
763 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
766 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
767 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
769 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
772 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
773 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
774 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
776 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
777 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
778 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
779 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
780 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
781 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
782 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
783 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
784 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
785 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
786 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
787 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
788 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
790 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
792 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
793 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
794 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
795 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
796 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
797 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
799 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
800 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
801 overflow/underflow errors
802 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
804 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
805 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
806 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
807 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
808 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
809 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
811 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
812 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
813 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
814 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
815 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
816 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
817 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
818 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
819 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
821 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
823 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
824 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
825 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
827 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
828 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
829 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
830 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
831 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
833 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
834 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
836 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
837 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
838 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
839 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
840 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
841 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
842 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
843 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
845 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
846 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
847 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
848 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
849 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
851 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
852 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
854 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
855 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
856 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
857 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
858 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
860 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
861 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
862 (related to lock elision)
863 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
864 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
865 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
866 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
868 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
869 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
870 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
871 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
872 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
873 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
874 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
875 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
876 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
877 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
878 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
879 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
880 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
881 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
882 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
883 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
884 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
885 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
886 contains a vector instruction exception.
887 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
888 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
890 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
891 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
892 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
893 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
894 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
896 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
898 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
899 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
901 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
902 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
903 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
904 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
905 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
907 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
908 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
909 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
910 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
911 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
912 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
914 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
915 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
916 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
917 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
918 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
919 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
920 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
921 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
922 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
924 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
925 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
926 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
927 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
928 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
929 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
930 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
932 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
933 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
934 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
935 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
937 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
938 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
939 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
940 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
941 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
942 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
944 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
945 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
946 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
947 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
948 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
949 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
951 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
952 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
953 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
954 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
955 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
956 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
957 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
958 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
960 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
961 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
962 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
963 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
964 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
965 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
966 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
967 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
968 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
970 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
972 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
973 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
974 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
976 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
977 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
978 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
979 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
980 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
981 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
982 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
983 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
984 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
985 pthread_setaffinity_np
986 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
987 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
988 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
989 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
990 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
992 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
993 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
994 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
995 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
996 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
997 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
998 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1000 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1001 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1002 for C99-based standards
1003 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1004 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1006 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1007 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1008 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1010 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1011 "inexact" exceptions
1012 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1014 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1015 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1016 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1017 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1019 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1020 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1021 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1022 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1023 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1024 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1025 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1026 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1027 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1028 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1030 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1031 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1032 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1033 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1035 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1036 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1037 error on 32-bit architectures
1038 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1039 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1040 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1041 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1042 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1043 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1044 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1045 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1046 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1048 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1050 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1051 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1052 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1053 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1055 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
1059 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1061 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
1062 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1063 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1064 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1065 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1066 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1067 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1068 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1069 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1070 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1071 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1072 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1073 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1074 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1075 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1076 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1077 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1078 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
1079 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1080 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
1082 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1083 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1085 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1086 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1087 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1088 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1089 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1090 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
1092 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1093 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1094 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1095 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1096 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1098 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1099 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1100 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1102 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1103 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1104 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1107 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1108 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1109 condition in some applications.
1111 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
1112 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1114 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1115 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
1116 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1117 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
1118 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
1120 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1121 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1122 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1123 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
1125 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1126 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1127 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
1129 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1130 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
1132 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1133 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1134 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1136 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
1137 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1138 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1142 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1144 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
1145 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1146 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1147 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1148 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1149 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1150 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1151 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1152 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1153 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1156 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1157 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1158 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1159 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1162 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1163 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1164 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1165 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1166 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1167 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
1169 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1171 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1172 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
1173 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
1175 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1176 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1177 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1178 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1179 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1180 effects being visible outside transactions.
1182 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1183 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1185 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1187 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1188 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
1189 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
1190 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1191 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
1193 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1194 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1196 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1197 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1200 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1201 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1202 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1204 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1205 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1207 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
1209 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1210 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1211 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1212 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
1214 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1215 with newer versions of bison.
1217 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1218 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1219 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1220 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1221 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1222 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1223 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1224 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1225 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1226 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1227 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1228 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1229 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1231 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1232 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1233 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1234 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1235 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
1239 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1241 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1242 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1243 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1244 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1245 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1246 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1247 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1248 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1249 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1250 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1251 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1252 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1253 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1254 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1255 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
1257 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1258 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1259 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1260 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1261 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
1262 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
1263 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1264 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1265 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1266 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1268 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1269 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1270 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1271 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1272 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
1274 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1276 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1277 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1279 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1280 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1281 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1282 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1283 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1284 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1286 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1289 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1290 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1291 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1292 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1293 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1294 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1295 test macros defined.
1297 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1299 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1300 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1301 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1302 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1303 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1304 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1307 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1308 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1309 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1310 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1313 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1314 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1315 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
1317 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1318 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1319 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1320 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
1322 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1323 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1324 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1325 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1326 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1327 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1328 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1331 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1332 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1333 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1334 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1335 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1336 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1337 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1338 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1339 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
1341 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1342 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1343 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1344 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1345 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
1346 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
1348 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1349 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1350 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1351 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
1355 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1357 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1358 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1359 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1360 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1361 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1362 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1363 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1364 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1365 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1366 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
1367 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1368 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1369 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1370 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1371 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
1372 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1373 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1374 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
1376 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1377 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1379 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1380 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1381 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
1382 extension which uses __block.
1384 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1385 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1386 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1387 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1388 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1390 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1391 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1392 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1393 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1396 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1397 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1398 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1399 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1400 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
1402 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1403 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1404 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1406 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1407 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1408 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1411 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1412 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1414 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
1415 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
1417 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1419 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1422 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
1424 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1426 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1427 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1428 for which the C library was built.
1430 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1431 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1432 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1433 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1434 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1435 in the following circumstances:
1437 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1439 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1440 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1442 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1443 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1445 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1446 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
1448 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1450 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1451 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1453 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
1455 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
1457 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
1459 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1460 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1461 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1462 disable some of those declarations.
1464 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
1465 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1466 that did nothing) has also been removed.
1468 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1469 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
1471 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1472 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1473 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1474 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1475 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1476 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1477 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1478 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1479 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1480 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1481 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1482 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1483 require recompilation.
1487 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1489 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
1490 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1491 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
1492 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1493 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1494 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1495 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1496 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1497 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1498 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1499 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1500 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1501 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1504 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1505 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1506 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1507 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1508 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1509 understands and accepts the risks.
1511 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1514 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1515 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
1517 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1518 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1519 destructor calls to glibc.
1521 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1524 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1525 non-x86 architectures.
1527 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1529 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1531 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1534 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1536 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1539 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1540 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1542 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1544 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1545 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
1547 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1548 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
1550 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1551 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1552 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1554 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1555 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1556 attributes of a process.
1558 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1559 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1560 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1561 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1564 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1565 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1567 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1571 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1573 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
1574 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1575 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1576 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1577 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1578 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1579 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1580 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1581 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1582 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1583 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1584 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1585 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1586 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1587 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
1589 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1591 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1592 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
1594 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1595 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1597 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1599 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1600 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1602 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1604 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1605 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1606 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1608 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1609 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1611 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1612 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1614 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1615 can be used with is 2.6.16.
1617 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1618 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1620 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
1621 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
1622 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1623 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
1625 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1626 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1628 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
1629 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
1632 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1633 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1634 information in --help and --version output.
1636 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1637 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1638 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1640 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
1641 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1642 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1643 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1644 when the mode is enabled.
1646 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
1647 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1648 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1649 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1650 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1651 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1652 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
1654 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
1659 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1661 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1662 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1663 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1664 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1665 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1666 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1667 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1668 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1669 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1670 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1671 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1672 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1673 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1674 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1675 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1676 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1677 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1678 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1679 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1680 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1681 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1682 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1685 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
1686 configuring glibc with:
1687 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1688 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1689 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1693 + define static_assert
1695 + do not declare gets
1697 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1699 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1700 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1701 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1704 + timespec_get added
1706 + uchar.h support added
1708 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
1710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1712 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
1714 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
1716 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1719 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1722 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1723 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1724 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1725 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1726 existing applications.
1728 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
1729 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
1732 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
1733 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1734 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1736 * New locales: mag_IN
1738 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1739 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1740 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1741 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1742 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
1744 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1746 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
1749 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1751 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1752 without a previously built glibc.
1754 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1755 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1757 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1758 now supported for ARM processors.
1760 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1761 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1762 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1764 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
1766 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1767 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1768 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1769 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
1771 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1772 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1773 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1774 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1776 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1777 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1778 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1779 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1780 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1782 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1783 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1784 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1785 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
1789 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1791 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1792 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1793 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1794 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1795 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1796 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1797 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
1799 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
1800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1802 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1803 and support for initgroups lookups.
1804 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1806 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1807 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1809 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1810 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1812 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
1813 on x86-32 and x86-64.
1814 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1816 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
1817 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1819 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
1820 for x86-64 and x86-32.
1821 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1823 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1824 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1826 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1829 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
1830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1832 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
1833 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1835 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
1836 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1838 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
1839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1841 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
1843 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
1844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1846 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
1847 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
1849 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
1853 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1855 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
1856 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
1857 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
1858 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
1859 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
1860 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
1861 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
1862 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
1863 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
1864 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
1866 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
1867 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
1868 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
1869 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
1871 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
1872 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
1873 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
1874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1876 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
1877 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
1879 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
1880 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
1882 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
1884 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
1885 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1887 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
1888 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
1889 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
1890 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
1894 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1896 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
1897 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
1898 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
1899 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
1902 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
1904 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
1906 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
1907 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
1908 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1912 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1914 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
1915 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
1916 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
1917 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
1918 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
1919 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
1920 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
1921 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
1923 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
1925 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
1927 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
1929 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
1930 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
1931 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1933 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
1934 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
1935 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
1936 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
1937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1939 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
1943 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1945 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
1946 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
1947 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
1948 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
1949 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
1950 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
1952 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
1954 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1956 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
1957 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1959 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
1960 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1962 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
1964 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
1965 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
1966 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
1967 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1969 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
1970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1972 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
1974 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1976 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
1977 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
1979 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
1980 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1982 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
1983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1985 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
1986 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
1987 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
1988 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
1989 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
1990 necessity is every process again.
1991 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1993 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
1994 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
1996 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
1997 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1999 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2000 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2003 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
2007 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2009 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2010 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2011 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2012 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2013 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2015 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
2016 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2018 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
2019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2021 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
2022 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
2024 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2027 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
2028 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2030 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2033 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2034 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2036 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2037 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2039 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2040 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2043 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
2045 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
2046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2048 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2049 and extend existing format specifiers.
2050 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2052 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2055 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2056 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2057 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2058 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2059 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2064 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2066 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2067 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2068 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2069 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2070 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2072 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
2073 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2075 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2076 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
2078 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2081 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2082 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2083 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2085 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2086 Implemented by Eric Blake.
2088 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
2090 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
2091 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2093 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2094 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2095 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2096 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2098 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2099 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2101 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2103 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2105 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
2109 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2111 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2112 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2113 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2114 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2115 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2116 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2117 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2119 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
2121 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
2123 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2124 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2126 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2128 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2129 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2131 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2132 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2134 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2135 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2136 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2138 * Faster memset for x86-64.
2139 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2141 * Faster memcpy on x86.
2142 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2144 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2145 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2147 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
2148 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2152 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2154 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2155 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2156 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2157 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2158 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2160 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2161 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2163 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2165 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2166 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2167 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2169 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2170 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2172 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
2173 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2175 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2177 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2180 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2181 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2183 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2184 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2186 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2188 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2191 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2192 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2195 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2200 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2202 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2203 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2204 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2205 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2206 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2207 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2208 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2211 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
2213 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
2215 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2219 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2221 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2222 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2223 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2224 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2225 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2226 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2227 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2228 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2229 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2231 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
2232 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2235 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2238 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
2240 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
2242 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2243 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2244 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
2245 site might have problems with the default behavior.
2246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2248 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
2249 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2250 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2251 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2253 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
2256 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2258 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2261 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2263 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2264 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
2268 * More overflow detection functions.
2270 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2271 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
2273 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2274 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2275 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2276 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2277 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2278 by Masahide Washizawa.
2280 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2281 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2283 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2284 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2285 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2286 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
2288 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2289 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2291 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2293 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2294 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2295 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2297 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2298 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2300 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2301 for compatibility with some other systems.
2303 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
2307 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2309 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2310 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2311 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2312 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2313 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2314 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2316 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2318 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2320 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
2324 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2326 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2327 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2328 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2329 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2331 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2335 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2336 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2338 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2339 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2342 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2343 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2345 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
2347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2349 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2350 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2353 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2354 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
2355 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2357 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
2358 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2360 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2361 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2362 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2363 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2365 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2366 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2367 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
2368 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2370 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2371 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2372 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2373 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2374 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
2378 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2379 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2381 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2382 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
2384 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
2385 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2387 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2390 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2393 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
2396 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2401 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2402 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2403 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2404 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2405 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2406 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2407 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2408 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2409 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2411 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2412 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2413 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2415 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
2417 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2418 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
2420 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2421 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2423 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
2425 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2426 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
2428 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2429 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2430 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2431 of weak definition in ld.so.
2433 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2434 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2436 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2437 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
2441 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2444 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2445 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
2447 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
2448 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
2450 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2451 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
2453 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
2454 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2455 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2457 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2458 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
2460 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
2461 implementation of regex.
2463 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2466 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2467 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
2469 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2470 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2471 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
2473 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
2474 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
2476 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2477 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2478 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
2480 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2481 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2483 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2484 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2487 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
2491 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2492 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2494 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2495 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
2499 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2500 128-bit long double format.
2502 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2503 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
2505 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
2507 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2509 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2512 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2513 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
2515 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
2519 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
2520 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
2522 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2523 support Unicode 3.1.
2525 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2526 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
2528 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
2530 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
2531 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2532 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2534 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2535 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2537 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2538 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
2540 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
2544 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
2545 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2546 in float, double, and long double format.
2548 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
2549 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2550 128-bit long double format.
2552 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2553 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2554 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2555 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2557 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2558 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2559 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2561 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2562 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
2564 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2565 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
2567 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2568 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2569 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
2571 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2572 family of functions for Linux/S390.
2574 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2575 of functions for Linux/x86.
2577 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2581 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
2582 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2583 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2584 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2585 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2586 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2589 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2590 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2592 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2593 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2594 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2595 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2597 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2602 only lists the names of the supported locales
2606 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2607 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2611 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2612 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2613 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2614 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2615 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2617 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2619 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2621 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
2623 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2624 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2625 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
2627 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2628 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2630 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2631 changed from the default "C" locale.
2633 * The usual bug fixes.
2637 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2638 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2641 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2643 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2645 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2646 obviously requires a database library being available.
2648 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2650 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
2652 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2653 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2655 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2657 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2658 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2661 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2662 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2663 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
2665 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
2666 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2668 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2669 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2670 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2672 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2673 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2674 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2677 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2678 structures for the wide character tables.
2680 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2682 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
2684 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2686 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2689 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2691 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2693 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2695 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2697 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2699 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2700 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2701 implemented for Linux.
2703 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2704 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2705 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2708 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2711 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
2725 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2727 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2729 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
2731 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2733 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
2735 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
2737 * Update timezone data files.
2739 * lots of charmaps corrections
2741 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
2746 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2747 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2748 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2749 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2750 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2751 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2753 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
2754 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2756 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
2759 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2760 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
2762 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
2764 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
2767 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
2769 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2770 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
2772 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2775 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
2776 functions from ISO C 9X.
2778 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2779 real valued functions.
2781 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
2783 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2785 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
2787 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
2789 * Optimized string functions have been added.
2791 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
2793 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2795 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2796 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2798 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2799 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2803 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
2805 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
2807 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
2809 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2811 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2813 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
2815 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
2816 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
2819 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2820 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
2822 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
2824 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
2826 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2827 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2829 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
2831 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
2834 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
2835 latest draft standards.
2837 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
2839 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
2840 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2841 addseverity NEW: Unix98
2842 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
2843 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
2844 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
2845 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
2846 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2847 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
2848 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
2849 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
2850 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
2851 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2852 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
2853 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
2854 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
2855 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
2856 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
2857 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
2858 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
2860 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2861 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2862 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2863 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2864 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2871 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2872 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2873 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2874 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2875 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2877 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2878 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2879 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2880 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2881 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
2882 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2886 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2887 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2893 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
2894 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
2895 clearerr_locked REMOVED
2896 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2898 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2899 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2900 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2910 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
2911 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
2913 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
2914 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
2919 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2920 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2923 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
2924 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
2928 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2929 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2931 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
2932 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2933 endutxent NEW: Unix98
2935 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2936 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2940 fattach NEW: STREAMS
2941 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
2945 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2946 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2947 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2948 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2949 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2951 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2952 ferror_locked REMOVED
2953 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2954 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2955 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2956 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2957 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2958 fflush_locked REMOVED
2962 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2963 fileno_locked REMOVED
2975 fputc_locked REMOVED
2976 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2977 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2982 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
2986 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
2988 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2989 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
2993 getchar_locked REMOVED
2995 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
2996 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
2998 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
2999 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
3000 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3001 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3002 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3003 getutxent NEW: Unix98
3004 getutxid NEW: Unix98
3005 getutxline NEW: Unix98
3006 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3007 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3008 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3009 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3010 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3011 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3013 iconv_close NEW: iconv
3014 iconv_open NEW: iconv
3015 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3016 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3017 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3018 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3019 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3020 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3021 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3022 isastream NEW: STREAMS
3023 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
3024 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3025 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3026 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3027 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3028 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3029 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3030 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3031 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3032 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
3033 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3034 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3035 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3036 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3037 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3038 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3043 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3044 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3045 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3046 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3047 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3049 makecontext NEW: Unix98
3050 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3053 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3057 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3058 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3059 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3060 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3061 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
3062 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3063 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3064 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
3068 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
3070 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3071 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3074 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3075 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3076 profil_counter REMOVED
3077 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3078 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3079 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3080 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3082 putchar_locked REMOVED
3083 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3085 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3086 pututxline NEW: Unix98
3090 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3091 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3092 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3093 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3095 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3096 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3098 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3099 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3100 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3102 sendfile NEW: kernel
3103 setcontext NEW: Unix98
3104 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3105 setutxent NEW: Unix98
3107 sigignore NEW: Unix98
3108 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3109 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3110 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3111 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3112 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3113 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3114 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3115 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3119 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
3120 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3121 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3122 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
3123 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
3124 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3125 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3126 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3127 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3128 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3129 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3130 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3131 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3135 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3136 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3138 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3139 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
3140 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3141 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
3142 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3143 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
3145 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3146 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3147 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3148 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3149 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3150 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3151 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3153 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3154 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3155 write_profiling REMOVED
3156 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3157 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3158 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3159 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3160 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3161 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3162 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3163 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3164 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3165 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3166 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3167 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3168 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
3169 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
3170 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3171 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3182 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3184 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3186 * rewrite of cbrt function
3188 * update of timezone data
3202 * add atoll function
3204 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
3206 * fix math functions
3210 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3212 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
3214 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3215 the ELF dynamic loader.
3217 * support for parallel builds is improved
3221 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3222 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3225 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3226 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3227 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3228 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
3229 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3230 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
3231 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3232 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3233 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
3234 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3235 files in the ELF format.
3237 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3238 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3240 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
3241 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3242 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3243 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3244 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3245 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3246 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3247 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
3248 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3249 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3250 about dynamically linked binaries.
3252 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3253 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
3254 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3255 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3256 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
3258 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
3259 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3260 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3261 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3262 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3264 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
3266 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3267 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
3268 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3269 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3270 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3271 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3272 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3273 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3274 NSS services available.
3276 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3277 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3278 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3280 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3281 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3282 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3284 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3285 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3286 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3287 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3289 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3290 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3291 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3293 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3294 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3295 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3297 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3298 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3300 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
3301 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
3302 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
3303 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3305 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3306 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3307 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
3309 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
3310 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3311 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3312 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
3313 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3314 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
3315 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
3316 the header file <printf.h> for details.
3318 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3319 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3320 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3321 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3322 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3323 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3324 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
3326 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3327 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3328 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3329 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3330 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3331 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3333 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3334 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3336 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3337 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3338 NSS scheme used in glibc.
3340 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3342 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3343 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3344 their use is discouraged.
3346 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3347 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
3349 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3350 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
3352 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3353 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3355 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3358 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3359 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
3360 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3361 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3362 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
3364 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3365 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3366 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3367 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
3369 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3370 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3372 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3373 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3374 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3375 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3378 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3379 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3381 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3382 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3384 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
3385 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
3386 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3387 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
3389 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3391 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3392 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3393 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3395 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3396 for arithmetic and string handling.
3398 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
3399 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3400 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3401 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3403 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3404 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3405 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3406 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3407 programs already written to use it.)
3409 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3412 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3415 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3416 a given effective group ID.
3418 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3419 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3420 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3421 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3423 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
3424 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
3425 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3426 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3427 doing the same thing.
3429 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3430 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3432 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
3433 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
3435 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3437 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3438 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3439 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
3440 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
3441 `-ldb' to get these functions.
3443 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3444 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
3446 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
3447 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3448 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3451 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3453 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3454 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3457 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3458 and writing the utmp file.
3460 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3463 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3464 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3465 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3467 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3468 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3470 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3471 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3474 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3475 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3476 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3477 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3479 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3480 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3481 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3483 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3484 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3485 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3488 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3491 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3494 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3496 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3497 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3498 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
3502 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3504 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3505 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3507 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3508 want to put themselves in the background.
3510 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3511 run without an operating system.
3513 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3514 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3516 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3517 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3519 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3521 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3522 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3525 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3528 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3529 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3533 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3534 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3535 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3537 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3538 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3540 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3541 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3543 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3545 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3547 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3550 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3551 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3552 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3554 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3556 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3557 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3558 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3560 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3561 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3562 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3563 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3564 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3567 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3568 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3569 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3570 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3571 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3574 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3575 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3579 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3580 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3582 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3583 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3584 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3586 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3587 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3588 address of the last character written.
3590 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3591 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3593 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3594 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3596 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3597 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3598 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3599 you dereference this pointer.
3601 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3602 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3604 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3605 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3606 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3607 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3609 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3610 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3611 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3612 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3616 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3617 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3618 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3619 in Emacs or the `info' program.
3620 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
3622 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3624 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3626 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3627 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3629 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3630 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3632 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3633 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3635 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3636 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3637 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3638 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3639 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3641 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3642 to the error code in `errno'.
3644 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3645 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3646 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3649 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3650 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3651 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3653 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3654 uniquely-named temporary file.
3658 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3659 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3660 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3662 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3665 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3666 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3668 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3672 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3673 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3674 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3675 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3677 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3678 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3679 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3681 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3682 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3684 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3685 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3686 made itself into a shared library.
3688 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3689 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3691 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3692 with limited length.
3694 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3696 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3698 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3700 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3701 function for traversing a directory tree.
3703 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3704 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3705 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3706 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3708 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3709 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3711 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3713 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3714 things to your strings.
3716 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3718 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3719 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3720 supporting those systems.
3722 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3723 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3724 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3725 configuration files.
3727 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3728 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3730 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
3731 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3734 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3735 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3736 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3737 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3738 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3739 required storage is not available.
3741 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3742 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
3744 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3745 latest files released from Berkeley.
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