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@@ -564,3 +564,37 @@ bug fixes: - mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs were completely broken (bad exit logic) - wide printf %.0s could fail due to uninitialized variable - missing dlerror strings for dlsym in some cases + + + +0.9.1 release notes + +new features: +- dynamic linker can be used as a program to explicitly load/run executables +- ldd command, usable by making a symlink to the dynamic linker named ldd + +bug fixes: +- major bugs in POSIX BRE parsing inherited from TRE regex code +- character matching bug in regex on ARM: WCHAR_MAX was assumed to be signed +- various obscure fixes related to signals and pthread cancellation +- remquot subnormal remainder bug +- buggy macros in (nonstandard) sys/param.h +- major bug in pthread barriers on x86_64 (out of bounds write) +- utimes (legacy) function was making wrong syscall (utime instead of utimes) +- avoid using "old" syscalls that don't exist on arm eabi linux +- broken strrchr(str, 0) +- broken mbsinit(0) +- broken wcsncmp +- syntax error in nextafter macro in tgmath.h +- missing support for -pie in musl-gcc wrapper +- abort could wrongly fail to terminate the program in some cases + +compatibility: +- increase default thread stack size to 80k +- support _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro +- support _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE feature test macro (merely exposes alt names) +- lots of legacy-compatibility improvements in headers +- various minor GNU extension functions +- sysconf reporting number of available CPUs/cores +- various LSB/glibc ABI interfaces aimed at compatibility with some binaries +- use fistpll asm mnemonic instead of fistpq for compat with clang |