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10 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
11 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
12 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
15 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
16 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
17 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
20 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
21 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
22 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
25 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
26 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
27 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
29 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
30 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
31 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
32 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
35 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
36 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions,
37 the femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE macro.
39 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
40 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
41 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
42 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
43 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
44 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
45 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
46 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
47 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
48 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
49 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
52 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
54 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
56 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
57 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
60 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
61 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
62 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
63 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
64 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
66 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
67 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
68 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
69 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
70 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
72 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
73 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
74 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
77 Security related changes:
79 On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
80 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
81 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
82 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
83 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
85 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
87 [The release manager will add the list generated by
88 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
92 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
93 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
94 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
95 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
96 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
99 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
100 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
101 been included in previous releases.
103 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
104 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
106 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
107 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
108 instead of “union wait”.
110 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
111 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
112 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
113 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
114 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
115 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
116 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
118 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
121 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
122 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
125 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
126 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
127 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
128 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
129 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
132 Security related changes:
134 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
135 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
136 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
138 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
139 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
140 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
141 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
143 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
144 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
145 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
147 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
148 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
149 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
151 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
152 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
153 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
154 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
156 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
158 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
159 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
161 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
162 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
163 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
164 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
165 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
166 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
167 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
168 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
170 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
171 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
172 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
173 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
174 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
175 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
177 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
179 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
180 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
181 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
182 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
183 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
184 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
185 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
186 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
187 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
188 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
189 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
191 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
192 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
193 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
194 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
195 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
196 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
198 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
199 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
201 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
202 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
204 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
206 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
207 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
209 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
210 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
211 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
212 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
214 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
216 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
217 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
218 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
219 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
221 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
222 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
223 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
224 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
225 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
226 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
227 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
228 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
229 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
231 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
232 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
233 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
234 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
236 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
238 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
240 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
241 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
242 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
243 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
244 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
245 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
247 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
248 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
250 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
251 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
253 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
255 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
257 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
258 pointers and lengths in error-case.
259 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
260 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
261 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
262 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
263 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
264 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
265 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
266 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
267 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
268 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
269 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
270 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
272 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
274 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
275 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
276 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
277 response to getaddrinfo
278 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
279 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
280 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
281 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
282 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
283 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
285 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
286 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
287 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
289 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
290 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
291 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
292 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
294 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
295 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
296 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
298 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
299 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
300 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
301 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
302 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
303 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
304 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
305 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
307 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
308 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
309 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
311 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
312 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
313 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
314 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
315 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
316 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
317 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
318 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
319 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
320 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
321 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
322 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
323 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
325 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
326 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
327 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
328 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
330 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
331 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
333 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
334 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
335 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
336 AS not supporting AVX512
337 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
339 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
340 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
342 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
343 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
344 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
345 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
346 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
348 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
349 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
351 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
352 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
353 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
354 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
355 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
356 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
357 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
358 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
359 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
361 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
362 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
363 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
364 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
365 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
366 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
367 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
368 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
369 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
370 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
371 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
372 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
373 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
375 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
376 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
377 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
378 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
379 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
381 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
382 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
384 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
386 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
387 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
388 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
389 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
390 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
391 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
392 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
393 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
394 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
398 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
399 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
400 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
401 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
402 89, 16061, and 18568.
404 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
405 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
406 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
407 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
408 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
409 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
410 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
412 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
413 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
414 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
416 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
417 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
418 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
419 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
420 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
421 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
422 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
424 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
425 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
426 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
427 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
428 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
429 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
430 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
433 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
434 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
435 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
436 independent of the GNU C Library.
438 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
439 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
441 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
442 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
443 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
444 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
445 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
448 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
449 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
451 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
452 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
453 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
454 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
455 defining their own copy.
457 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
458 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
459 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
461 Security related changes:
463 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
464 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
466 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
467 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
468 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
469 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
472 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
473 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
475 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
478 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
479 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
480 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
482 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
483 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
484 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
485 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
486 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
487 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
488 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
489 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
490 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
491 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
492 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
493 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
494 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
496 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
498 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
499 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
500 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
501 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
502 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
503 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
505 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
506 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
507 overflow/underflow errors
508 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
510 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
511 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
512 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
513 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
514 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
515 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
517 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
518 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
519 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
520 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
521 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
522 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
523 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
524 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
525 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
527 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
529 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
530 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
531 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
533 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
534 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
535 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
536 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
537 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
539 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
540 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
542 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
543 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
544 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
545 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
546 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
547 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
548 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
549 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
551 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
552 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
553 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
554 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
555 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
557 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
558 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
560 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
561 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
562 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
563 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
564 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
566 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
567 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
568 (related to lock elision)
569 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
570 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
571 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
572 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
574 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
575 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
576 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
577 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
578 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
579 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
580 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
581 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
582 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
583 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
584 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
585 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
586 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
587 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
588 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
589 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
590 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
591 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
592 contains a vector instruction exception.
593 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
594 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
596 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
597 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
598 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
599 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
600 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
602 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
604 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
605 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
607 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
608 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
609 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
610 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
611 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
613 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
614 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
615 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
616 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
617 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
618 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
620 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
621 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
622 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
623 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
624 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
625 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
626 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
627 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
628 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
630 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
631 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
632 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
633 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
634 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
635 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
636 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
638 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
639 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
640 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
641 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
643 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
644 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
645 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
646 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
647 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
648 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
650 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
651 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
652 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
653 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
654 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
655 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
657 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
658 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
659 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
660 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
661 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
662 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
663 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
664 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
666 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
667 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
668 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
669 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
670 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
671 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
672 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
673 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
674 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
676 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
678 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
679 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
680 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
682 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
683 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
684 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
685 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
686 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
687 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
688 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
689 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
690 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
691 pthread_setaffinity_np
692 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
693 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
694 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
695 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
696 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
698 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
699 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
700 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
701 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
702 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
703 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
704 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
706 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
707 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
708 for C99-based standards
709 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
710 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
712 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
713 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
714 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
716 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
718 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
720 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
721 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
722 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
723 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
725 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
726 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
727 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
728 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
729 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
730 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
731 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
732 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
733 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
734 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
736 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
737 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
738 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
739 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
741 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
742 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
743 error on 32-bit architectures
744 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
745 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
746 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
747 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
748 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
749 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
750 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
751 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
752 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
754 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
756 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
757 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
758 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
759 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
761 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
765 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
767 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
768 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
769 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
770 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
771 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
772 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
773 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
774 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
775 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
776 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
777 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
778 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
779 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
780 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
781 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
782 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
783 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
784 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
785 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
786 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
788 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
789 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
791 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
792 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
793 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
794 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
795 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
796 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
798 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
799 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
800 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
801 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
802 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
804 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
805 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
806 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
808 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
809 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
810 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
813 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
814 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
815 condition in some applications.
817 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
818 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
820 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
821 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
822 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
823 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
824 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
826 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
827 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
828 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
829 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
831 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
832 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
833 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
835 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
836 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
838 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
839 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
840 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
842 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
843 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
844 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
848 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
850 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
851 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
852 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
853 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
854 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
855 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
856 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
857 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
858 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
859 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
862 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
863 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
864 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
865 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
868 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
869 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
870 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
871 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
872 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
873 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
875 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
877 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
878 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
879 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
881 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
882 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
883 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
884 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
885 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
886 effects being visible outside transactions.
888 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
889 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
891 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
893 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
894 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
895 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
896 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
897 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
899 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
900 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
902 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
903 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
906 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
907 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
908 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
910 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
911 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
913 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
915 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
916 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
917 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
918 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
920 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
921 with newer versions of bison.
923 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
924 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
925 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
926 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
927 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
928 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
929 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
930 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
931 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
932 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
933 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
934 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
935 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
937 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
938 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
939 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
940 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
941 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
945 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
947 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
948 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
949 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
950 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
951 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
952 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
953 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
954 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
955 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
956 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
957 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
958 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
959 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
960 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
961 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
963 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
964 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
965 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
966 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
967 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
968 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
969 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
970 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
971 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
972 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
974 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
975 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
976 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
977 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
978 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
980 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
982 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
983 can be used with is 2.6.32.
985 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
986 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
987 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
988 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
989 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
990 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
992 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
995 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
996 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
997 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
998 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
999 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1000 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1001 test macros defined.
1003 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1005 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1006 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1007 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1008 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1009 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1010 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1013 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1014 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1015 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1016 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1019 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1020 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1021 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
1023 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1024 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1025 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1026 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
1028 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1029 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1030 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1031 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1032 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1033 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1034 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1037 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1038 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1039 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1040 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1041 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1042 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1043 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1044 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1045 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
1047 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1048 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1049 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1050 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1051 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
1052 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
1054 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1055 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1056 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1057 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
1061 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1063 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1064 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1065 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1066 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1067 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1068 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1069 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1070 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1071 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1072 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
1073 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1074 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1075 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1076 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1077 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
1078 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1079 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1080 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
1082 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1083 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1085 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1086 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1087 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
1088 extension which uses __block.
1090 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1091 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1092 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1093 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1094 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1096 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1097 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1098 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1099 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1102 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1103 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1104 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1105 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1106 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
1108 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1109 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1110 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1112 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1113 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1114 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1117 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1118 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1120 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
1121 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
1123 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1125 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1128 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
1130 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1132 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1133 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1134 for which the C library was built.
1136 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1137 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1138 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1139 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1140 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1141 in the following circumstances:
1143 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1145 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1146 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1148 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1149 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1151 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1152 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
1154 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1156 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1157 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1159 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
1161 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
1163 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
1165 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1166 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1167 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1168 disable some of those declarations.
1170 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
1171 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1172 that did nothing) has also been removed.
1174 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1175 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
1177 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1178 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1179 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1180 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1181 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1182 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1183 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1184 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1185 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1186 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1187 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1188 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1189 require recompilation.
1193 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1195 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
1196 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1197 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
1198 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1199 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1200 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1201 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1202 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1203 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1204 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1205 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1206 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1207 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1210 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1211 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1212 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1213 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1214 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1215 understands and accepts the risks.
1217 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
1220 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
1221 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
1223 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
1224 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
1225 destructor calls to glibc.
1227 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
1230 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
1231 non-x86 architectures.
1233 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
1235 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
1237 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
1240 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1242 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
1245 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
1246 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1248 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
1250 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
1251 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
1253 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
1254 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
1256 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
1257 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
1258 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
1260 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
1261 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
1262 attributes of a process.
1264 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
1265 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
1266 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
1267 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
1270 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
1271 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1273 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
1277 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1279 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
1280 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
1281 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
1282 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
1283 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
1284 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
1285 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
1286 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
1287 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
1288 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
1289 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
1290 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
1291 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
1292 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
1293 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
1295 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
1297 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
1298 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
1300 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
1301 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
1303 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
1305 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
1306 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
1308 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1310 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
1311 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
1312 the internal function __secure_getenv.
1314 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
1315 Implemented by Gary Benson.
1317 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
1318 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
1320 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1321 can be used with is 2.6.16.
1323 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
1324 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
1326 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
1327 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
1328 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
1329 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
1331 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
1332 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
1334 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
1335 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
1338 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
1339 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
1340 information in --help and --version output.
1342 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
1343 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
1344 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
1346 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
1347 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
1348 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
1349 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
1350 when the mode is enabled.
1352 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
1353 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
1354 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
1355 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
1356 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
1357 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
1358 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
1360 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
1365 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1367 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
1368 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
1369 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
1370 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
1371 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
1372 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
1373 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
1374 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
1375 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
1376 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
1377 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
1378 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
1379 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
1380 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
1381 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
1382 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
1383 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
1384 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
1385 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
1386 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
1387 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
1388 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
1391 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
1392 configuring glibc with:
1393 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
1394 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
1395 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1399 + define static_assert
1401 + do not declare gets
1403 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
1405 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
1406 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
1407 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
1410 + timespec_get added
1412 + uchar.h support added
1414 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
1416 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1418 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
1420 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
1422 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
1423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1425 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
1426 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1428 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
1429 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
1430 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
1431 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
1432 existing applications.
1434 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
1435 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
1438 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
1439 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
1440 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
1442 * New locales: mag_IN
1444 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
1445 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
1446 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
1447 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
1448 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
1450 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1452 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
1455 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
1457 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
1458 without a previously built glibc.
1460 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
1461 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
1463 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
1464 now supported for ARM processors.
1466 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
1467 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
1468 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
1470 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
1472 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
1473 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
1474 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
1475 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
1477 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
1478 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
1479 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
1480 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1482 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
1483 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
1484 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
1485 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
1486 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
1488 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
1489 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
1490 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
1491 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
1495 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1497 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
1498 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
1499 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
1500 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
1501 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
1502 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
1503 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
1505 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
1506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1508 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
1509 and support for initgroups lookups.
1510 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1512 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
1513 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1515 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
1516 Contributed by HJ Lu.
1518 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
1519 on x86-32 and x86-64.
1520 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1522 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
1523 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1525 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
1526 for x86-64 and x86-32.
1527 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
1529 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
1530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1532 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
1533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1535 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
1536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1538 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
1539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1541 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
1542 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1544 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
1545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1547 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
1549 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
1550 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1552 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
1553 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
1555 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
1559 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1561 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
1562 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
1563 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
1564 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
1565 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
1566 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
1567 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
1568 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
1569 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
1570 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
1572 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
1573 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
1574 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
1575 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
1577 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
1578 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
1579 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
1580 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1582 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
1583 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
1585 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
1586 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
1588 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
1590 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
1591 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1593 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
1594 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
1595 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
1596 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
1600 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1602 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
1603 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
1604 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
1605 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
1608 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
1610 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
1612 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
1613 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
1614 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1618 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1620 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
1621 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
1622 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
1623 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
1624 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
1625 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
1626 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
1627 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
1629 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
1631 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
1633 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
1635 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
1636 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
1637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1639 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
1640 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
1641 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
1642 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
1643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1645 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
1649 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1651 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
1652 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
1653 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
1654 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
1655 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
1656 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
1658 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
1660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1662 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
1663 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1665 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
1666 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1668 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
1670 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
1671 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
1672 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
1673 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1675 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
1676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1678 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
1680 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
1682 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
1683 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
1685 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
1686 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
1688 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
1689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1691 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
1692 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
1693 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
1694 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
1695 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
1696 necessity is every process again.
1697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1699 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
1700 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
1702 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
1703 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
1705 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
1706 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
1707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1709 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
1713 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1715 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
1716 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
1717 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
1718 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
1719 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
1721 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
1722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1724 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
1725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1727 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
1728 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1730 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
1733 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
1734 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1736 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
1737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1739 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
1740 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1742 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
1743 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1745 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
1746 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
1747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1749 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
1751 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
1752 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1754 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
1755 and extend existing format specifiers.
1756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1758 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
1759 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1761 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
1762 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
1763 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
1764 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
1765 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
1766 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1770 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1772 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
1773 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
1774 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
1775 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
1776 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
1778 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
1779 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1781 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
1782 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
1784 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
1785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1787 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
1788 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
1789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1791 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
1792 Implemented by Eric Blake.
1794 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
1796 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
1797 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1799 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
1800 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
1801 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
1802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1804 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
1805 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1807 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
1809 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
1811 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
1815 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1817 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
1818 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
1819 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
1820 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
1821 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
1822 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
1823 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
1825 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
1827 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
1829 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
1830 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
1832 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
1834 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
1835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1837 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
1838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1840 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
1841 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
1842 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1844 * Faster memset for x86-64.
1845 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
1847 * Faster memcpy on x86.
1848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1850 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
1851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1853 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
1854 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
1858 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1860 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
1861 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
1862 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
1863 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
1864 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
1866 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
1867 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
1869 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1871 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
1872 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
1873 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
1875 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
1876 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
1878 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
1879 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1881 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1883 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
1884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1886 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
1887 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
1889 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
1890 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
1892 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1894 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
1895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1897 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
1898 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
1901 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
1902 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1906 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1908 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
1909 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
1910 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
1911 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
1912 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
1913 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
1914 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
1917 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
1919 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
1921 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1925 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1927 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
1928 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
1929 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
1930 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
1931 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
1932 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
1933 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
1934 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
1935 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
1937 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
1938 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
1939 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1941 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
1942 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1944 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
1946 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
1948 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
1949 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
1950 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
1951 site might have problems with the default behavior.
1952 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1954 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
1955 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
1956 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
1957 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1959 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
1962 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
1964 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
1967 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
1969 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
1970 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
1974 * More overflow detection functions.
1976 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
1977 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
1979 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
1980 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
1981 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
1982 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
1983 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
1984 by Masahide Washizawa.
1986 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
1987 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1989 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
1990 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
1991 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
1992 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
1994 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
1995 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
1997 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
1999 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2000 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2001 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2003 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2004 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2006 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2007 for compatibility with some other systems.
2009 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
2013 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2015 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2016 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2017 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2018 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2019 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2020 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2022 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2024 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2026 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
2030 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2032 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2033 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2034 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2035 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2037 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2041 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2044 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2045 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2048 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2049 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2051 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
2053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2055 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2056 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2059 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2060 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
2061 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2063 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
2064 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2066 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2067 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2068 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2069 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2071 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2072 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2073 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
2074 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2076 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2077 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2078 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2079 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2080 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
2084 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2085 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2087 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2088 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
2090 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
2091 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2093 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2094 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2096 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2099 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
2102 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2107 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2108 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2109 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2110 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2111 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2112 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2113 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2114 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2115 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2117 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2118 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2119 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2121 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
2123 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2124 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
2126 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2127 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2129 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
2131 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2132 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
2134 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2135 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2136 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2137 of weak definition in ld.so.
2139 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2140 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2142 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2143 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
2147 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2150 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2151 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
2153 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
2154 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
2156 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2157 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
2159 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
2160 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2161 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2163 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2164 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
2166 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
2167 implementation of regex.
2169 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2172 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2173 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
2175 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2176 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2177 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
2179 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
2180 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
2182 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2183 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2184 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
2186 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2187 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2189 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2190 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2193 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
2197 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2198 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2200 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2201 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
2205 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2206 128-bit long double format.
2208 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2209 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
2211 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
2213 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2215 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2218 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2219 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
2221 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
2225 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
2226 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
2228 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
2229 support Unicode 3.1.
2231 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
2232 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
2234 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
2236 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
2237 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
2238 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2240 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
2241 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
2243 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
2244 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
2246 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
2250 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
2251 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
2252 in float, double, and long double format.
2254 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
2255 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
2256 128-bit long double format.
2258 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
2259 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
2260 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
2261 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
2263 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
2264 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
2265 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2267 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
2268 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
2270 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
2271 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
2273 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
2274 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
2275 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
2277 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
2278 family of functions for Linux/S390.
2280 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
2281 of functions for Linux/x86.
2283 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2287 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
2288 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
2289 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
2290 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
2291 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
2292 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
2295 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
2296 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
2298 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
2299 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
2300 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
2301 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2303 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
2308 only lists the names of the supported locales
2312 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
2313 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
2317 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
2318 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
2319 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
2320 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
2321 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
2323 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
2325 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
2327 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
2329 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
2330 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
2331 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
2333 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
2334 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
2336 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
2337 changed from the default "C" locale.
2339 * The usual bug fixes.
2343 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
2344 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
2347 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
2349 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2351 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
2352 obviously requires a database library being available.
2354 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2356 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
2358 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
2359 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
2361 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
2363 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
2364 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
2367 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
2368 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
2369 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
2371 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
2372 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
2374 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
2375 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
2376 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
2378 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
2379 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
2380 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
2381 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2383 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
2384 structures for the wide character tables.
2386 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2388 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
2390 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
2392 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
2395 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
2397 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
2399 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2401 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
2403 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
2405 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
2406 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
2407 implemented for Linux.
2409 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
2410 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
2411 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
2414 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
2417 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
2431 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
2433 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
2435 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
2437 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
2439 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
2441 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
2443 * Update timezone data files.
2445 * lots of charmaps corrections
2447 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
2452 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
2453 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
2454 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
2455 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
2456 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
2457 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
2459 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
2460 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2462 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
2465 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
2466 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
2468 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
2470 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
2473 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
2475 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
2476 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
2478 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
2481 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
2482 functions from ISO C 9X.
2484 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
2485 real valued functions.
2487 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
2489 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
2491 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
2493 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
2495 * Optimized string functions have been added.
2497 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
2499 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2501 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
2502 daemon for NSS (nscd).
2504 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
2505 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
2509 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
2511 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
2513 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
2515 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
2517 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
2519 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
2521 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
2522 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
2525 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
2526 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
2528 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
2530 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
2532 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
2533 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
2535 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
2537 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
2540 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
2541 latest draft standards.
2543 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
2545 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
2546 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2547 addseverity NEW: Unix98
2548 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
2549 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
2550 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
2551 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
2552 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2553 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
2554 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
2555 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
2556 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
2557 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
2558 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
2559 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
2560 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
2561 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
2562 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
2563 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
2564 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
2566 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
2567 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
2568 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2569 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2570 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
2577 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
2578 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
2579 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2580 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2581 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
2583 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
2584 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
2585 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2586 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2587 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
2588 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2592 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
2593 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
2599 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
2600 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
2601 clearerr_locked REMOVED
2602 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2604 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
2605 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2606 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2616 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
2617 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
2619 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
2620 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
2625 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2626 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2629 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
2630 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
2634 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
2635 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
2637 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
2638 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
2639 endutxent NEW: Unix98
2641 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
2642 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
2646 fattach NEW: STREAMS
2647 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
2651 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2652 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2653 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2654 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2655 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2657 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2658 ferror_locked REMOVED
2659 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2660 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
2661 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
2662 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
2663 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
2664 fflush_locked REMOVED
2668 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2669 fileno_locked REMOVED
2681 fputc_locked REMOVED
2682 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2683 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2688 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
2692 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
2694 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
2695 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
2699 getchar_locked REMOVED
2701 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
2702 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
2704 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
2705 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
2706 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
2707 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
2708 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
2709 getutxent NEW: Unix98
2710 getutxid NEW: Unix98
2711 getutxline NEW: Unix98
2712 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
2713 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
2714 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
2715 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
2716 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
2717 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
2719 iconv_close NEW: iconv
2720 iconv_open NEW: iconv
2721 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
2722 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
2723 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
2724 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
2725 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
2726 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
2727 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
2728 isastream NEW: STREAMS
2729 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
2730 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
2731 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
2732 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
2733 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
2734 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
2735 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
2736 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
2737 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
2738 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
2739 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
2740 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2741 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
2742 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
2743 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2744 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2749 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2750 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
2751 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
2752 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2753 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2755 makecontext NEW: Unix98
2756 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
2759 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
2763 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
2764 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
2765 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
2766 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
2767 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
2768 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
2769 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
2770 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
2774 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
2776 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
2777 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
2780 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
2781 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
2782 profil_counter REMOVED
2783 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
2784 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
2785 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
2786 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
2788 putchar_locked REMOVED
2789 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
2791 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
2792 pututxline NEW: Unix98
2796 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
2797 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
2798 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
2799 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
2801 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
2802 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
2804 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
2805 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
2806 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
2808 sendfile NEW: kernel
2809 setcontext NEW: Unix98
2810 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
2811 setutxent NEW: Unix98
2813 sigignore NEW: Unix98
2814 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
2815 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
2816 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
2817 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
2818 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
2819 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
2820 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
2821 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
2825 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
2826 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
2827 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
2828 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
2829 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
2830 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
2831 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
2832 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
2833 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
2834 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
2835 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
2836 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
2837 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
2841 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
2842 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
2844 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
2845 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
2846 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
2847 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
2848 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
2849 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
2851 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
2852 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
2853 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
2854 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
2855 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
2856 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
2857 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
2859 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
2860 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
2861 write_profiling REMOVED
2862 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
2863 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
2864 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
2865 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
2866 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
2867 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
2868 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
2869 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
2870 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
2871 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
2872 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
2873 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
2874 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
2875 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
2876 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
2877 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2888 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
2890 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
2892 * rewrite of cbrt function
2894 * update of timezone data
2908 * add atoll function
2910 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
2912 * fix math functions
2916 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
2918 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
2920 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
2921 the ELF dynamic loader.
2923 * support for parallel builds is improved
2927 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
2928 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
2931 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
2932 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
2933 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
2934 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
2935 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
2936 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
2937 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
2938 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
2939 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
2940 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
2941 files in the ELF format.
2943 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
2944 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
2946 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
2947 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
2948 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
2949 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
2950 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
2951 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
2952 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
2953 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
2954 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
2955 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
2956 about dynamically linked binaries.
2958 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
2959 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
2960 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
2961 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
2962 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
2964 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
2965 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
2966 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
2967 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
2968 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
2970 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
2972 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
2973 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
2974 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
2975 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
2976 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
2977 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
2978 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
2979 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
2980 NSS services available.
2982 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
2983 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
2984 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
2986 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
2987 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
2988 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
2990 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
2991 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
2992 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
2993 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
2995 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
2996 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
2997 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
2999 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3000 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3001 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3003 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3004 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3006 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
3007 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
3008 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
3009 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3011 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3012 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3013 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
3015 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
3016 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3017 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3018 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
3019 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3020 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
3021 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
3022 the header file <printf.h> for details.
3024 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3025 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3026 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3027 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3028 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3029 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3030 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
3032 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3033 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3034 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3035 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3036 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3037 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3039 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3040 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3042 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3043 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3044 NSS scheme used in glibc.
3046 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3048 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3049 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3050 their use is discouraged.
3052 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3053 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
3055 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3056 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
3058 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3059 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3061 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3064 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3065 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
3066 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3067 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3068 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
3070 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3071 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3072 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3073 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
3075 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3076 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3078 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3079 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3080 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3081 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3084 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3085 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3087 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3088 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3090 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
3091 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
3092 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3093 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
3095 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3097 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3098 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3099 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3101 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3102 for arithmetic and string handling.
3104 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
3105 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3106 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3107 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3109 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3110 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3111 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3112 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3113 programs already written to use it.)
3115 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3118 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3121 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3122 a given effective group ID.
3124 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3125 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3126 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3127 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3129 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
3130 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
3131 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3132 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3133 doing the same thing.
3135 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3136 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3138 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
3139 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
3141 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3143 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3144 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3145 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
3146 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
3147 `-ldb' to get these functions.
3149 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3150 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
3152 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
3153 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3154 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3157 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3159 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3160 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3163 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3164 and writing the utmp file.
3166 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3169 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3170 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3171 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3173 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3174 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3176 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3177 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3180 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3181 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3182 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3183 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3185 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3186 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3187 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3189 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3190 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3191 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3194 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3197 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3200 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3202 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3203 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3204 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
3208 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3210 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3211 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3213 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3214 want to put themselves in the background.
3216 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3217 run without an operating system.
3219 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
3220 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
3222 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
3223 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
3225 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
3227 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
3228 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
3231 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
3234 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
3235 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
3239 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
3240 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
3241 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
3243 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
3244 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
3246 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
3247 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
3249 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
3251 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
3253 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
3256 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
3257 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
3258 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
3260 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
3262 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
3263 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
3264 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
3266 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
3267 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
3268 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
3269 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
3270 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
3273 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
3274 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
3275 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
3276 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
3277 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
3280 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
3281 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
3285 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
3286 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
3288 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
3289 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
3290 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
3292 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
3293 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
3294 address of the last character written.
3296 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
3297 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
3299 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
3300 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
3302 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
3303 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
3304 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
3305 you dereference this pointer.
3307 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
3308 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
3310 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
3311 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
3312 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
3313 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
3315 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
3316 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
3317 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
3318 EAGAIN in every system call function.
3322 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
3323 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
3324 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
3325 in Emacs or the `info' program.
3326 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
3328 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
3330 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
3332 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
3333 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
3335 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
3336 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
3338 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
3339 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
3341 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
3342 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
3343 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
3344 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
3345 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
3347 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
3348 to the error code in `errno'.
3350 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
3351 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
3352 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
3355 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
3356 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
3357 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
3359 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
3360 uniquely-named temporary file.
3364 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
3365 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
3366 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
3368 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
3371 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
3372 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
3374 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
3378 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
3379 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
3380 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
3381 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
3383 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
3384 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
3385 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
3387 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
3388 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
3390 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
3391 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
3392 made itself into a shared library.
3394 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
3395 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
3397 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
3398 with limited length.
3400 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
3402 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
3404 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
3406 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
3407 function for traversing a directory tree.
3409 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
3410 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
3411 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
3412 formatted output directly to an obstack.
3414 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
3415 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
3417 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
3419 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
3420 things to your strings.
3422 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
3424 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
3425 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
3426 supporting those systems.
3428 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
3429 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
3430 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
3431 configuration files.
3433 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
3434 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
3436 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
3437 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
3440 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
3441 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
3442 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
3443 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
3444 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
3445 required storage is not available.
3447 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
3448 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
3450 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
3451 latest files released from Berkeley.
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