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12 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
21 * Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the Catalan and
22 Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated
23 alternative month names.
25 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
28 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
30 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
31 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
32 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
34 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
35 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
36 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
37 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
38 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
39 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
41 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
42 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
43 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
44 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
45 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
46 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
49 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
50 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
51 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
52 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
53 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
56 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
57 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
58 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
60 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
62 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
63 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
64 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
66 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
68 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
70 Security related changes:
72 [Add security related changes here]
74 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
76 [The release manager will add the list generated by
77 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
84 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
85 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
86 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
87 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
88 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
89 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
90 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
91 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
92 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
94 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
95 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
98 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
100 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
102 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
103 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
104 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
105 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
106 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
107 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
108 from a security and performance perspective.
110 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
111 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
112 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
113 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
115 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
116 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
117 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
118 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
119 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
121 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
122 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
123 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
124 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
127 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
128 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
129 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
131 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
133 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
134 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
137 * The copy_file_range function was added.
139 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
141 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
142 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
143 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
145 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
146 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
147 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
148 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
149 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
150 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
151 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
153 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
154 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
155 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
156 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
157 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
158 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
159 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
161 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
162 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
163 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
164 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
167 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
168 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
169 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
170 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
172 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
173 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
174 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
176 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
177 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
178 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
180 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
181 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
182 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
188 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
190 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
191 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
192 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
193 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
194 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
195 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
196 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
197 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
198 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
201 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
202 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
203 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
205 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
206 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
207 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
208 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
209 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
210 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
211 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
212 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
213 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
214 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
215 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
216 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
217 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
218 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
219 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
220 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
221 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
222 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
223 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
224 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
225 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
226 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
227 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
228 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
229 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
230 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
232 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
233 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
235 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
236 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
237 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
238 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
239 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
240 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
241 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
243 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
244 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
245 exp10l for these functions instead.
247 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
248 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
249 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
251 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
252 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
255 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
256 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
257 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
258 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
260 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
261 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
263 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
264 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
266 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
269 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
271 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
272 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
273 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
276 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
277 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
278 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
279 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
280 use, but predates the bits convention.
282 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
284 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
287 Security related changes:
289 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
290 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
291 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
292 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
295 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
296 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
297 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
298 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
300 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
301 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
302 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
305 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
306 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
307 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
309 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
310 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
311 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
312 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
314 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
315 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
316 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
319 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
320 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
321 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
322 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
323 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
325 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
326 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
329 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
330 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
331 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
333 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
334 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
335 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
337 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
338 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
339 small, instead of NULL.
341 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
343 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
344 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
345 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
347 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
348 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
349 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
351 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
352 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
353 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
354 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
355 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
356 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
357 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
358 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
359 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
361 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
362 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
363 width Latin characters
364 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
365 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
366 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
368 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
369 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
371 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
372 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
373 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
374 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
375 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
377 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
378 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
379 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
380 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
381 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
382 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
383 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
384 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
385 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
386 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
388 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
389 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
390 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
391 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
392 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
393 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
394 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
395 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
397 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
398 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
400 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
401 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
403 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
404 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
405 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
406 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
407 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
408 __regcall calling convention
409 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
410 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
411 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
412 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
413 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
414 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
415 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
416 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
417 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
418 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
419 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
420 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
421 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
423 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
425 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
427 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
428 consistency check failures
429 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
430 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
431 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
432 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
434 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
436 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
437 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
438 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
439 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
440 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
441 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
442 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
443 on memory allocation failure
444 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
445 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
447 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
449 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
450 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
451 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
452 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
453 instead of EAI_NODATA
454 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
455 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
456 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
457 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
459 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
460 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
461 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
462 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
463 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
464 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
465 allocation in syscall loops)
466 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
467 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
468 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
469 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
470 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
471 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
472 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
473 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
474 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
476 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
477 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
478 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
480 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
481 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
483 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
485 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
486 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
487 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
488 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
489 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
490 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
491 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
492 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
493 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
494 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
495 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
496 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
497 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
498 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
499 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
500 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
501 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
502 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
504 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
506 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
507 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
509 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
510 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
511 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
512 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
514 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
515 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
516 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
517 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
518 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
519 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
520 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
521 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
522 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
523 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
524 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
526 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
527 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
528 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
529 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
530 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
531 the svid compat wrapper
532 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
533 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
534 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
535 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
536 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
537 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
539 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
540 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
542 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
543 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
544 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
545 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
546 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
547 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
549 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
550 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
551 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
552 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
554 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
555 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
557 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
558 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
559 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
560 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
561 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
562 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
563 inside the ASCII printable range
564 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
566 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
567 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
568 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
570 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
571 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
573 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
574 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
575 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
577 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
579 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
580 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
581 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
582 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
583 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
584 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
585 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
586 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
587 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
589 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
590 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
591 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
592 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
593 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
594 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
596 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
597 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
598 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
600 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
602 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
603 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
604 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
605 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
606 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
608 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
609 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
610 modified in case of success
611 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
612 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
614 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
616 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
617 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
618 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
619 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
620 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
621 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
622 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
623 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
625 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
626 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
627 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
628 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
629 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
630 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
631 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
632 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
633 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
635 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
637 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
639 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
640 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
641 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
643 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
644 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
646 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
647 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
648 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
649 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
650 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
651 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
652 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
653 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
654 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
661 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
662 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
663 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
664 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
665 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
666 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
667 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
669 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
670 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
671 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
672 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
673 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
674 are rendered with pango, see for example:
675 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
677 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
678 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
681 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
683 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
684 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
685 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
687 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
688 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
689 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
690 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
691 object are still limited to six search domains.
693 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
694 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
695 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
697 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
698 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
700 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
701 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
702 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
703 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
705 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
706 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
707 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
708 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
710 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
711 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
712 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
713 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
715 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
716 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
717 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
719 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
720 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
721 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
722 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
724 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
725 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
726 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
727 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
728 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
730 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
731 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
732 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
733 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
734 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
735 interfaces should be used instead.
737 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
739 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
740 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
741 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
742 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
743 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
744 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
745 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
746 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
748 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
751 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
752 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
753 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
754 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
756 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
757 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
760 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
761 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
762 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
763 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
764 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
766 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
767 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
768 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
769 name service modules, to be built and installed.
771 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
772 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
773 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
774 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
776 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
777 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
779 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
780 exported by accident.
782 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
783 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
784 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
786 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
787 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
788 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
789 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
791 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
793 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
795 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
798 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
799 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
801 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
802 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
804 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
805 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
806 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
807 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
808 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
809 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
810 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
811 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
813 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
814 synced with the kernel:
816 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
817 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
819 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
820 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
821 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
823 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
824 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
826 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
828 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
829 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
832 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
834 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
835 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
837 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
838 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
839 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
840 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
841 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
843 Security related changes:
845 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
846 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
848 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
849 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
851 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
852 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
855 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
856 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
858 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
860 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
861 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
862 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
864 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
866 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
867 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
868 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
870 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
871 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
872 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
873 x86 and other generic code
874 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
875 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
877 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
878 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
879 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
880 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
881 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
882 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
883 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
885 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
886 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
887 order of 0D36 and 0D37
888 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
890 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
891 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
893 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
895 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
896 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
897 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
899 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
900 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
901 failures consistently
902 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
903 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
904 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
905 frame-pointer on i386
906 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
908 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
909 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
910 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
911 generic c code is used
912 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
913 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
915 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
917 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
918 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
920 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
921 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
922 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
923 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
924 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
925 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
926 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
927 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
928 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
929 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
931 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
933 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
934 new posix_spawn implementation
935 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
936 leads to lower CPU frequency
937 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
938 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
939 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
940 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
941 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
942 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
943 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
944 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
945 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
946 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
947 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
948 not support gethostbyname4_r
949 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
951 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
953 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
954 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
955 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
956 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
957 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
958 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
959 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
961 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
962 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
963 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
964 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
965 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
966 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
967 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
968 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
969 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
970 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
971 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
972 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
974 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
975 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
976 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
977 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
978 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
979 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
980 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
981 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
983 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
984 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
985 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
986 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
987 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
988 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
989 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
990 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
991 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
992 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
993 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
994 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
995 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
996 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
997 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
998 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
999 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1000 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1001 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1002 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1003 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1005 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1006 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1007 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1008 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1009 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1011 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1012 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1014 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1015 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1017 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1018 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1020 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1021 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1022 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1023 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1025 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1026 leading to relocation crash
1027 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1028 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1029 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1030 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1031 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1032 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1033 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1034 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1035 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1037 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1039 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1040 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1041 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1042 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1043 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1044 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1045 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1046 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1048 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1050 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1052 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1053 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1054 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1055 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1056 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1057 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1058 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1059 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1060 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1061 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1062 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1063 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1064 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1065 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1066 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1067 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1068 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1069 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1070 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1071 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1072 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1073 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1074 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1075 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1076 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1077 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1078 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1080 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1081 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1082 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1083 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1084 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1089 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1090 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1091 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1094 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1095 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1096 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1099 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1100 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1101 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1104 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1105 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1106 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1107 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1108 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1109 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1110 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1113 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1114 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1117 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1118 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1119 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1121 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1122 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1123 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1124 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1127 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1128 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1129 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1131 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1132 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1133 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1134 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1135 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1136 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1137 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1138 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1139 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1140 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1141 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1144 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1146 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1148 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1149 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1150 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1152 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1153 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1155 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1158 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1160 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1162 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1163 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1165 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1167 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1168 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1170 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1171 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1173 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1174 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1175 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1177 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1178 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1179 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1180 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1181 effects of the memory clear).
1183 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1184 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1185 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1186 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1188 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1189 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1190 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1191 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1192 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1193 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1195 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1198 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1199 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1200 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1201 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1202 as large as several megabytes.
1204 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1205 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1208 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1209 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1210 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1211 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1212 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1213 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1214 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1216 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1217 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1218 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1219 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1221 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1222 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1223 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1226 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1227 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1228 They were already unimplemented.
1230 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1231 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1232 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1233 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1235 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1236 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1237 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1238 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1239 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1241 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1242 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1243 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1244 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1245 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1247 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1248 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1249 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1250 did not reflect that.
1252 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1253 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1254 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1255 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1256 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1257 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1258 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1261 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1262 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1263 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1264 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1266 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1267 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1268 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1269 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1271 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1272 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1275 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1276 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1279 Security related changes:
1281 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1282 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1283 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1284 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1285 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1287 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1288 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1289 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1290 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1293 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1295 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1296 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1298 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1299 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1300 before it started waiting
1301 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1302 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1303 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1304 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1306 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1307 library linked with pthread
1308 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1309 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1310 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1311 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1312 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1313 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1314 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1316 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1318 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1319 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1320 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1321 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1322 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1323 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1324 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1325 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1326 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1328 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1329 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1330 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1331 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1332 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1333 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1334 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1335 causes a segmentation fault
1336 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1338 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1339 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1341 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1343 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1344 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1345 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1347 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1348 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1350 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1351 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1352 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1353 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1354 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1355 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1356 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1357 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1359 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1360 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1361 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1363 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1365 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1367 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1368 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1369 cause transition penalty
1370 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1371 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1372 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1373 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1374 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1376 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1378 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1379 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1380 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1381 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1382 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1383 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1385 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1387 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1388 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1389 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1390 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1391 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1392 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1393 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1394 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1395 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1396 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1397 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1398 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1399 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1400 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1402 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1403 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1404 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1405 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1406 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1407 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1408 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1409 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1410 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1411 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1412 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1413 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1414 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1415 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1416 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1417 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1418 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1419 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1421 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1422 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1423 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1424 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1425 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1427 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1428 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1429 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1430 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1431 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1432 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1433 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1435 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1436 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1437 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1438 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1439 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1443 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1444 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1445 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1446 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1447 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1450 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1451 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1452 been included in previous releases.
1454 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1455 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1457 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1458 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1459 instead of “union wait”.
1461 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1462 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1463 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1464 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1465 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1466 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1467 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1469 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1472 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1473 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1476 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1477 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1478 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1479 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1480 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1483 Security related changes:
1485 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1486 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1487 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1489 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1490 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1491 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1492 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1494 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1495 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1496 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1498 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1499 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1500 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1502 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1503 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1504 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1505 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1507 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1509 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1510 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1512 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1513 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1514 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1515 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1516 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1517 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1518 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1519 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1521 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1522 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1523 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1524 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1525 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1526 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1528 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1530 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1531 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1532 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1533 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1534 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1535 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1536 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1537 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1538 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1539 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1540 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1542 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1543 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1544 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1545 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1546 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1547 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1549 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1550 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1552 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1553 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1554 Romanian locale data
1555 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1557 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1558 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1560 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1561 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1562 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1563 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1565 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1567 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1568 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1569 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1570 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1571 when using RTLD_NEXT
1572 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1573 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1574 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1575 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1576 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1577 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1578 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1579 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1580 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1582 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1583 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1584 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1585 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1587 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1589 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1591 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1592 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1593 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1594 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1595 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1596 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1598 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1599 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1601 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1602 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1604 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1606 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1608 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1609 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1610 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1611 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1612 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1613 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1614 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1615 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1616 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1617 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1618 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1619 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1620 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1621 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1623 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1625 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1626 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1627 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1628 response to getaddrinfo
1629 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1630 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1631 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1632 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1633 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1634 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1636 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1637 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1638 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1640 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1641 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1642 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1643 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1645 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1646 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1647 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1649 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1650 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1651 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1652 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1653 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1654 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1655 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1656 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1658 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1659 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1660 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1662 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1663 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1664 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1665 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1666 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1667 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1668 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1669 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1670 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1671 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1672 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1673 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1674 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1676 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1677 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1678 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1679 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1681 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1682 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1684 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1685 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1686 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1687 AS not supporting AVX512
1688 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1690 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1691 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1693 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1694 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1695 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1696 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1697 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1699 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1700 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1702 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1703 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1704 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1705 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1706 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1707 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1708 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1709 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1710 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1712 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1713 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1714 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1715 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1716 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1717 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1718 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1719 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1720 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1721 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1722 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1723 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1724 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1726 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1727 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1728 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1729 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1730 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1732 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1733 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1735 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1736 "invalid" exceptions
1737 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1738 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1739 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1740 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1741 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1742 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1743 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1744 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1745 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1749 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1750 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1751 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1752 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1753 89, 16061, and 18568.
1755 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1756 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1757 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1758 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1759 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1760 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1761 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1763 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1764 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1765 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1767 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1768 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1769 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1770 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1771 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1772 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1773 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1775 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1776 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1777 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1778 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1779 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1780 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1781 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1784 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1785 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1786 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1787 independent of the GNU C Library.
1789 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1790 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1792 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1793 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1794 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1795 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1796 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1799 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1800 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1802 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1803 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1804 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1805 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1806 defining their own copy.
1808 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1809 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1810 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1812 Security related changes:
1814 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1815 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1817 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1818 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1819 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1820 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1823 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1824 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1826 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1827 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1829 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1830 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1831 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1833 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1834 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1835 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1836 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1837 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1838 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1839 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1840 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1841 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1842 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1843 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1844 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1845 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1847 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1849 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1850 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1851 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1852 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1853 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1854 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1856 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1857 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1858 overflow/underflow errors
1859 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1861 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1862 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1863 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1864 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1865 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1866 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1868 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1869 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1870 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1871 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1872 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1873 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1874 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1875 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1876 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1878 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1880 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1881 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1882 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1884 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1885 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1886 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1887 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1888 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1890 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1891 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1893 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1894 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1895 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1896 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1897 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1898 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1899 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1900 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1902 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1903 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1904 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1905 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1906 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1908 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1909 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1911 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1912 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1913 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1914 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1915 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1917 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1918 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1919 (related to lock elision)
1920 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1921 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1922 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1923 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1925 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1926 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1927 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1928 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1929 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1930 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1931 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1932 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1933 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1934 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1935 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1936 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1937 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1938 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1939 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1940 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1941 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1942 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1943 contains a vector instruction exception.
1944 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1945 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1947 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1948 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1949 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1950 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1951 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1953 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1955 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1956 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1958 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1959 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1960 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1961 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1962 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1964 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1965 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1966 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1967 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1968 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1969 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1970 statically too large
1971 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1972 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1973 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1974 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1975 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1976 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1977 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1978 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1979 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1981 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1982 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1983 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1984 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1985 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1986 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1987 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1989 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1990 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1991 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1992 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1994 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1995 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1996 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1997 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1998 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1999 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2001 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2002 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2003 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2004 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2005 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2006 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2008 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2009 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2010 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2011 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2012 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2013 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2014 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2015 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2017 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2018 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2019 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2020 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2021 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2022 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2023 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2024 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2025 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2027 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2029 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2030 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2031 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2033 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2034 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2035 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2036 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2037 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2038 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2039 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2040 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2041 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2042 pthread_setaffinity_np
2043 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2044 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2045 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2046 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2047 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2049 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2050 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2051 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2052 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2053 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2054 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2055 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2057 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2058 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2059 for C99-based standards
2060 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2061 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2063 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2064 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2065 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2067 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2068 "inexact" exceptions
2069 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2071 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2072 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2073 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2074 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2076 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2077 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2078 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2079 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2080 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2081 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2082 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2083 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2084 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2085 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2087 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2088 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2089 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2090 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2092 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2093 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2094 error on 32-bit architectures
2095 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2096 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2097 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2098 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2099 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2100 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2101 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2102 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2103 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2105 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2107 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2108 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2109 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2110 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2112 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2116 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2118 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2119 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2120 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2121 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2122 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2123 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2124 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2125 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2126 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2127 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2128 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2129 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2130 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2131 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2132 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2133 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2134 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2135 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2136 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2137 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2139 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2140 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2142 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2143 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2144 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2145 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2146 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2147 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2149 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2150 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2151 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2152 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2153 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2155 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2156 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2157 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2159 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2160 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2161 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2164 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2165 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2166 condition in some applications.
2168 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2169 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2171 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2172 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2173 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2174 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2175 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2177 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2178 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2179 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2180 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2182 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2183 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2184 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2186 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2187 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2189 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2190 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2191 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2193 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2194 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2195 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2199 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2201 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2202 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2203 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2204 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2205 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2206 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2207 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2208 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2209 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2210 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2213 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2214 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2215 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2216 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2219 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2220 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2221 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2222 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2223 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2224 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2226 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2228 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2229 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2230 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2232 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2233 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2234 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2235 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2236 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2237 effects being visible outside transactions.
2239 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2240 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2242 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2244 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2245 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2246 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2247 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2248 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2250 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2251 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2253 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2254 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2257 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2258 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2259 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2261 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2262 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2264 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2266 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2267 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2268 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2269 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2271 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2272 with newer versions of bison.
2274 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2275 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2276 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2277 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2278 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2279 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2280 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2281 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2282 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2283 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2284 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2285 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2286 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2288 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2289 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2290 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2291 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2292 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2296 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2298 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2299 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2300 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2301 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2302 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2303 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2304 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2305 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2306 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2307 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2308 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2309 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2310 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2311 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2312 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2314 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2315 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2316 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2317 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2318 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2319 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2320 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2321 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2322 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2323 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2325 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2326 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2327 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2328 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2329 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2331 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2333 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2334 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2336 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2337 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2338 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2339 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2340 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2341 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2343 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2346 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2347 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2348 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2349 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2350 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2351 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2352 test macros defined.
2354 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2356 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2357 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2358 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2359 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2360 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2361 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2364 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2365 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2366 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2367 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2370 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2371 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2372 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2374 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2375 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2376 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2377 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2379 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2380 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2381 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2382 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2383 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2384 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2385 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2388 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2389 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2390 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2391 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2392 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2393 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2394 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2395 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2396 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2398 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2399 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2400 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2401 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2402 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2403 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2405 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2406 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2407 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2408 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2412 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2414 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2415 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2416 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2417 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2418 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2419 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2420 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2421 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2422 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2423 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2424 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2425 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2426 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2427 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2428 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2429 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2430 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2431 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2433 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2434 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2436 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2437 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2438 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2439 extension which uses __block.
2441 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2442 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2443 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2444 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2445 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2447 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2448 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2449 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2450 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2453 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2454 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2455 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2456 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2457 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2459 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2460 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2461 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2463 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2464 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2465 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2468 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2469 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2471 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2472 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2474 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2476 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2479 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2481 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2483 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2484 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2485 for which the C library was built.
2487 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2488 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2489 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2490 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2491 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2492 in the following circumstances:
2494 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2496 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2497 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2499 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2500 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2502 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2503 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2505 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2507 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2508 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2510 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2512 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2514 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2516 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2517 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2518 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2519 disable some of those declarations.
2521 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2522 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2523 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2525 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2526 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2528 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2529 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2530 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2531 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2532 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2533 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2534 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2535 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2536 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2537 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2538 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2539 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2540 require recompilation.
2544 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2546 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2547 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2548 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2549 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2550 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2551 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2552 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2553 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2554 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2555 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2556 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2557 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2558 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2561 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2562 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2563 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2564 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2565 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2566 understands and accepts the risks.
2568 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2571 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2572 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2574 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2575 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2576 destructor calls to glibc.
2578 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2581 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2582 non-x86 architectures.
2584 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2586 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2588 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2591 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2593 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2596 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2597 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2599 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2601 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2602 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2604 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2605 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2607 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2608 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2609 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2611 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2612 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2613 attributes of a process.
2615 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2616 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2617 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2618 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2621 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2622 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2624 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2628 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2630 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2631 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2632 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2633 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2634 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2635 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2636 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2637 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2638 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2639 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2640 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2641 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2642 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2643 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2644 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2646 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2648 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2649 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2651 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2652 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2654 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2656 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2657 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2659 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2661 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2662 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2663 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2665 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2666 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2668 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2669 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2671 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2672 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2674 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2675 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2677 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2678 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2679 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2680 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2682 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2683 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2685 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2686 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2689 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2690 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2691 information in --help and --version output.
2693 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2694 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2695 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2697 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2698 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2699 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2700 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2701 when the mode is enabled.
2703 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2704 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2705 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2706 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2707 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2708 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2709 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2711 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2716 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2718 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2719 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2720 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2721 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2722 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2723 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2724 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2725 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2726 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2727 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2728 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2729 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2730 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2731 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2732 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2733 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2734 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2735 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2736 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2737 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2738 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2739 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2742 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2743 configuring glibc with:
2744 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2745 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2746 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2750 + define static_assert
2752 + do not declare gets
2754 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2756 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2757 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2758 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2761 + timespec_get added
2763 + uchar.h support added
2765 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2767 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2769 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2771 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2773 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2776 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2777 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2779 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2780 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2781 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2782 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2783 existing applications.
2785 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2786 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2789 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2790 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2791 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2793 * New locales: mag_IN
2795 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2796 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2797 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2798 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2799 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2801 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2803 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2806 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2808 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2809 without a previously built glibc.
2811 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2812 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2814 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2815 now supported for ARM processors.
2817 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2818 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2819 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2821 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2823 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2824 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2825 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2826 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2828 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2829 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2830 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2831 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2833 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2834 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2835 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2836 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2837 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2839 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2840 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2841 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2842 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2846 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2848 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2849 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2850 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2851 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2852 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2853 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2854 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2856 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2859 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2860 and support for initgroups lookups.
2861 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2863 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2864 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2866 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2867 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2869 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2870 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2871 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2873 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2874 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2876 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2877 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2878 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2880 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2883 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2886 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2889 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2892 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2893 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2895 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2896 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2898 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2900 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2903 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2904 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2906 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2910 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2912 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2913 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2914 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2915 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
2916 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2917 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2918 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
2919 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2920 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
2921 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
2923 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2924 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2925 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
2926 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
2928 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
2929 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2930 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
2931 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2933 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
2934 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
2936 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
2937 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
2939 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
2941 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2942 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2944 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2945 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2946 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2947 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
2951 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2953 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2954 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2955 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2956 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2959 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
2961 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
2963 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2964 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
2965 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2969 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2971 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2972 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2973 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2974 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
2975 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2976 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2977 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
2978 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
2980 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
2982 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2984 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2986 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2987 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2990 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2991 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2992 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2993 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2996 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
3000 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3002 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3003 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3004 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3005 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3006 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3007 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3009 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3011 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3013 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3014 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3016 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3017 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3019 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3021 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3022 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3023 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3024 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3026 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3029 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3031 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3033 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3034 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3036 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3037 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3039 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3042 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3043 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3044 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3045 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3046 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3047 necessity is every process again.
3048 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3050 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3051 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3053 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3054 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3056 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3057 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3060 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3064 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3066 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3067 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3068 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3069 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3070 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3072 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3073 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3075 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3076 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3078 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3079 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3081 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3084 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3085 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3087 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3088 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3090 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3091 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3093 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3094 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3096 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3097 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3100 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3102 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3103 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3105 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3106 and extend existing format specifiers.
3107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3109 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3112 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3113 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3114 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3115 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3116 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3117 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3121 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3123 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3124 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3125 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3126 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3127 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3129 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3130 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3132 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3133 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3135 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3138 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3139 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3140 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3142 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3143 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3145 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3147 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3148 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3150 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3151 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3152 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3155 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3156 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3158 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3160 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3162 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3166 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3168 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3169 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3170 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3171 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3172 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3173 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3174 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3176 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3178 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3180 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3181 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3183 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3185 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3186 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3188 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3191 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3192 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3193 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3195 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3196 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3198 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3201 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3204 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3205 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3209 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3211 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3212 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3213 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3214 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3215 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3217 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3218 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3220 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3222 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3223 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3224 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3226 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3227 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3229 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3230 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3232 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3234 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3235 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3237 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3238 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3240 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3241 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3243 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3245 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3248 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3249 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3252 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3257 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3259 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3260 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3261 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3262 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3263 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3264 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3265 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3268 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3270 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3272 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3276 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3278 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3279 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3280 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3281 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3282 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3283 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3284 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3285 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3286 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3288 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3289 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3292 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3293 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3295 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3297 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3299 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3300 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3301 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3302 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3303 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3305 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3306 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3307 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3308 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3310 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3313 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3315 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3318 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3320 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3321 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3325 * More overflow detection functions.
3327 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3328 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3330 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3331 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3332 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3333 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3334 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3335 by Masahide Washizawa.
3337 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3338 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3340 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3341 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3342 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3343 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3345 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3346 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3348 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3350 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3351 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3352 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3354 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3355 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3357 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3358 for compatibility with some other systems.
3360 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3364 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3366 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3367 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3368 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3369 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3370 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3371 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3373 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3375 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3377 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3381 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3383 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3384 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3385 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3386 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3388 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3392 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3393 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3395 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3396 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3399 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3400 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3402 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3406 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3407 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3410 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3411 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3412 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3414 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3415 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3417 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3418 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3419 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3420 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3422 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3423 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3424 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3425 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3427 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3428 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3429 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3430 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3431 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3435 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3436 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3438 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3439 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3441 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3442 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3444 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3445 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3447 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3450 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3453 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3458 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3459 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3460 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3461 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3462 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3463 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3464 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3465 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3466 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3468 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3469 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3470 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3472 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3474 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3475 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3477 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3478 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3480 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3482 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3483 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3485 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3486 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3487 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3488 of weak definition in ld.so.
3490 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3491 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3493 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3494 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3498 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3501 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3502 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3504 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3505 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3507 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3508 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3510 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3511 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3512 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3514 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3515 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3517 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3518 implementation of regex.
3520 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3523 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3524 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3526 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3527 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3528 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3530 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3531 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3533 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3534 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3535 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3537 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3538 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3540 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3541 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3544 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3548 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3549 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3551 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3552 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3556 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3557 128-bit long double format.
3559 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3560 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3562 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3564 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3566 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3569 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3570 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3572 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3576 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3577 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3579 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3580 support Unicode 3.1.
3582 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3583 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3585 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3587 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3588 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3589 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3591 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3592 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3594 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3595 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3597 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3601 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3602 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3603 in float, double, and long double format.
3605 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3606 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3607 128-bit long double format.
3609 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3610 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3611 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3612 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3614 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3615 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3616 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3618 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3619 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3621 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3622 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3624 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3625 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3626 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3628 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3629 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3631 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3632 of functions for Linux/x86.
3634 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3638 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3639 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3640 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3641 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3642 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3643 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3646 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3647 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3649 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3650 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3651 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3652 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3654 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3659 only lists the names of the supported locales
3663 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3664 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3668 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3669 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3670 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3671 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3672 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3674 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3676 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3678 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3680 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3681 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3682 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3684 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3685 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3687 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3688 changed from the default "C" locale.
3690 * The usual bug fixes.
3694 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3695 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3698 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3700 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3702 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3703 obviously requires a database library being available.
3705 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3707 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3709 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3710 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3712 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3714 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3715 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3718 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3719 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3720 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3722 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3723 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3725 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3726 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3727 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3729 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3730 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3731 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3734 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3735 structures for the wide character tables.
3737 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3739 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3741 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3743 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3746 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3748 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3750 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3752 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3754 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3756 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3757 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3758 implemented for Linux.
3760 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3761 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3762 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3765 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3768 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3782 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3784 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3786 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3788 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3790 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3792 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3794 * Update timezone data files.
3796 * lots of charmaps corrections
3798 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3803 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3804 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3805 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3806 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3807 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3808 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3810 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3811 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3813 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3816 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3817 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3819 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3821 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3824 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3826 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3827 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3829 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3832 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3833 functions from ISO C 9X.
3835 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3836 real valued functions.
3838 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3840 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3842 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3844 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3846 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3848 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3850 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3852 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3853 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3855 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3856 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3860 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3862 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3864 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3866 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3868 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3870 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3872 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3873 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3876 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3877 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3879 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3881 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3883 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3884 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3886 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3888 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3891 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3892 latest draft standards.
3894 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3896 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3897 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3898 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3899 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3900 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3901 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3902 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3903 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3904 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3905 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3906 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3907 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3908 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3909 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3910 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3911 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3912 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3913 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3914 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3915 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3917 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3918 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3919 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3920 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3921 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3928 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3929 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3930 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3931 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3932 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3934 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3935 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3936 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3937 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3938 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3939 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3943 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3944 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3950 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3951 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3952 clearerr_locked REMOVED
3953 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3955 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3956 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3957 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3967 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3968 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3970 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3971 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3976 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3977 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3980 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3981 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3985 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3986 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3988 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3989 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3990 endutxent NEW: Unix98
3992 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3993 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3997 fattach NEW: STREAMS
3998 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4002 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4003 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4004 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4005 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4006 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4008 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4009 ferror_locked REMOVED
4010 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4011 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4012 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4013 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4014 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4015 fflush_locked REMOVED
4019 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4020 fileno_locked REMOVED
4032 fputc_locked REMOVED
4033 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4034 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4039 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4043 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4045 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4046 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4050 getchar_locked REMOVED
4052 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4053 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4055 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4056 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4057 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4058 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4059 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4060 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4061 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4062 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4063 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4064 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4065 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4066 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4067 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4068 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4070 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4071 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4072 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4073 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4074 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4075 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4076 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4077 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4078 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4079 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4080 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4081 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4082 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4083 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4084 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4085 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4086 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4087 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4088 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4089 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4090 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4091 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4092 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4093 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4094 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4095 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4100 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4101 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4102 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4103 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4104 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4106 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4107 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4110 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4114 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4115 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4116 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4117 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4118 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4119 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4120 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4121 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4125 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4127 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4128 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4131 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4132 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4133 profil_counter REMOVED
4134 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4135 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4136 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4137 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4139 putchar_locked REMOVED
4140 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4142 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4143 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4147 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4148 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4149 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4150 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4152 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4153 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4155 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4156 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4157 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4159 sendfile NEW: kernel
4160 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4161 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4162 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4164 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4165 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4166 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4167 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4168 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4169 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4170 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4171 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4172 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4176 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4177 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4178 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4179 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4180 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4181 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4182 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4183 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4184 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4185 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4186 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4187 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4188 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4192 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4193 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4195 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4196 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4197 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4198 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4199 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4200 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4202 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4203 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4204 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4205 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4206 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4207 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4208 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4210 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4211 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4212 write_profiling REMOVED
4213 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4214 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4215 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4216 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4217 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4218 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4219 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4220 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4221 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4222 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4223 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4224 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4225 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4226 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4227 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4228 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4239 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4241 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4243 * rewrite of cbrt function
4245 * update of timezone data
4259 * add atoll function
4261 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4263 * fix math functions
4267 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4269 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4271 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4272 the ELF dynamic loader.
4274 * support for parallel builds is improved
4278 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4279 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4282 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4283 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4284 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4285 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4286 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4287 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4288 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4289 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4290 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4291 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4292 files in the ELF format.
4294 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4295 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4297 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4298 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4299 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4300 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4301 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4302 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4303 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4304 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4305 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4306 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4307 about dynamically linked binaries.
4309 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4310 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4311 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4312 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4313 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4315 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4316 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4317 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4318 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4319 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4321 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4323 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4324 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4325 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4326 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4327 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4328 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4329 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4330 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4331 NSS services available.
4333 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4334 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4335 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4337 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4338 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4339 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4341 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4342 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4343 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4344 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4346 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4347 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4348 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4350 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4351 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4352 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4354 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4355 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4357 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4358 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4359 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4360 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4362 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4363 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4364 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4366 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4367 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4368 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4369 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4370 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4371 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4372 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4373 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4375 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4376 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4377 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4378 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4379 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4380 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4381 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4383 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4384 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4385 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4386 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4387 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4388 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4390 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4391 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4393 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4394 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4395 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4397 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4399 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4400 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4401 their use is discouraged.
4403 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4404 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4406 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4407 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4409 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4410 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4412 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4415 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4416 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4417 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4418 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4419 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4421 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4422 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4423 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4424 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4426 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4427 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4429 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4430 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4431 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4432 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4435 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4436 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4438 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4439 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4441 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4442 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4443 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4444 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4446 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4448 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4449 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4450 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4452 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4453 for arithmetic and string handling.
4455 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4456 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4457 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4458 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4460 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4461 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4462 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4463 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4464 programs already written to use it.)
4466 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4469 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4472 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4473 a given effective group ID.
4475 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4476 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4477 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4478 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4480 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4481 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4482 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4483 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4484 doing the same thing.
4486 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4487 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4489 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4490 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4492 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4494 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4495 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4496 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4497 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4498 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4500 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4501 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4503 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4504 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4505 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4508 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4510 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4511 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4514 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4515 and writing the utmp file.
4517 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4520 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4521 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4522 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4524 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4525 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4527 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4528 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4531 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4532 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4533 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4534 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4536 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4537 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4538 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4540 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4541 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4542 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4545 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4548 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4551 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4553 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4554 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4555 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4559 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4561 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4562 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4564 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4565 want to put themselves in the background.
4567 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4568 run without an operating system.
4570 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4571 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4573 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4574 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4576 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4578 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4579 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4582 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4585 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4586 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4590 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4591 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4592 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4594 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4595 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4597 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4598 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4600 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4602 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4604 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4607 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4608 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4609 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4611 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4613 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4614 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4615 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4617 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4618 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4619 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4620 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4621 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4624 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4625 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4626 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4627 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4628 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4631 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4632 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4636 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4637 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4639 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4640 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4641 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4643 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4644 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4645 address of the last character written.
4647 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4648 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4650 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4651 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4653 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4654 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4655 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4656 you dereference this pointer.
4658 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4659 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4661 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4662 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4663 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4664 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4666 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4667 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4668 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4669 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4673 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4674 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4675 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4676 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4677 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4679 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4681 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4683 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4684 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4686 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4687 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4689 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4690 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4692 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4693 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4694 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4695 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4696 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4698 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4699 to the error code in `errno'.
4701 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4702 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4703 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4706 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4707 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4708 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4710 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4711 uniquely-named temporary file.
4715 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4716 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4717 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4719 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4722 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4723 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4725 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4729 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4730 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4731 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4732 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4734 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4735 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4736 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4738 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4739 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4741 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4742 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4743 made itself into a shared library.
4745 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4746 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4748 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4749 with limited length.
4751 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4753 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4755 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4757 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4758 function for traversing a directory tree.
4760 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4761 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4762 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4763 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4765 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4766 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4768 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4770 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4771 things to your strings.
4773 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4775 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4776 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4777 supporting those systems.
4779 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4780 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4781 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4782 configuration files.
4784 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4785 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4787 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4788 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4791 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4792 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4793 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4794 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4795 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4796 required storage is not available.
4798 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4799 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4801 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4802 latest files released from Berkeley.
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