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* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
-* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X
+* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
- numbers
+ numbers.
-* scanf recognizes the %A format for scanning floating point numbers
+* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
* the new header <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides information and
- interfaces for the available integer types
+ interfaces for the available integer types.
* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
- functions from ISO C 9X
+ functions from ISO C 9X.
+
+* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
+ real valued functions.
* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
+
+* Ulrich Drepper added character conversion functions.
+
+* Optimized string functions have been added.
+
+* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
Version 2.0.5