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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1996-03-05 21:41:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1996-03-05 21:41:30 +0000 |
| commit | f7eac6eb504f4baf13dbb4d26717942df050ebe6 (patch) | |
| tree | 95ff129c06c7f6f246a5e2bfa489ba6382659d19 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1521668f2afae1dc2ef5d7ffaeb84353b36874dd (diff) | |
| download | glibc-f7eac6eb504f4baf13dbb4d26717942df050ebe6.tar.gz | |
Mon Mar 4 20:54:40 1996 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
* Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)config.make): Depend on config.h.in.
Mon Mar 4 17:35:09 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@charlie-brown.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* hurd/catch-signal.c (hurd_safe_memmove): New function.
(hurd_safe_copyin, hurd_safe_copyout): New functions.
* hurd/hurd/sigpreempt.h: Declare them.
Sun Mar 3 08:43:44 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@charlie-brown.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Replace math code with fdlibm from Sun as modified for netbsd by
JT Conklin and Ian Taylor, including x86 FPU support.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754, sysdeps/libm-i387: New directories.
* math/math_private.h: New file.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/Implies: New file.
* sysdeps/ieee754/Implies: New file.
* math/machine/asm.h, math/machine/endian.h: New files.
* math/Makefile, math/math.h: Rewritten.
* mathcalls.h, math/mathcalls.h: New file, broken out of math.h.
* math/finite.c: File removed.
* sysdeps/generic/Makefile [$(subdir)=math]: Frobnication removed.
* math/test-math.c: Include errno.h and string.h.
* sysdeps/unix/bsd/dirstream.h: File removed.
* sysdeps/unix/bsd/readdir.c: File removed.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Version 1.10 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The profiling code was adapted from 4.4 BSD-Lite. +* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from + Sun, and modified by JT Conklin with i387 support and by Ian Taylor with + `float' functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, + so programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. + * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). @@ -53,6 +58,10 @@ Version 1.10 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on + wide-character and multibyte-character strings; see <wcstr.h> and <mbstr.h>. + These new functions are intended to conform to the ISO C specification. + * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints @@ -163,10 +172,13 @@ Version 1.10 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. -* The 4.4 BSD `db' library has been incorporated into the GNU C library. - New header files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for - several types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and - <ndbm.h> is an old `ndbm'-compatbile interface using the `db' functions. +* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header + files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several + types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is + an old `ndbm'-compatbile interface using the `db' functions. + +* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack + space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. Version 1.09 |