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@@ -997,3 +997,58 @@ arch-specific bugs: - wrong SIG_ATOMIC_MIN/MAX macros on x86_64 - erfcl was missing on archs where long double is same as double - broken dynamic-model TLS in static-linked arm/mips/powerpc programs + + + +0.9.13 release notes + +new features: +- iconv support for EUC-KR and Big5 (including HKSCS) encodings +- field widths (POSIX 2008 feature) in strftime +- recurive rpath and $ORIGIN support in dynamic linker +- cpu affinity interfaces +- support for armhf (hardfloat) floating point environment (fenv) +- support for SSE fenv on i386 (for apps using -mfpmath=sse -msse2) +- strftime %s format (seconds since the epoch, future POSIX requirement) +- configure script now saves its command line as a comment in config.mak +- legacy functions valloc and euidaccess + +performance: +- optimized asm memcpy for arm +- optimized asm memset for i386 and x86_64 +- optimized C versions of memcpy and memset for all archs +- eliminated major spurious syscalls from posix_spawn +- some math asm for armhf (hardfloat) + +workarounds for: +- qemu-user's rt_sigaction syscall does not allow old to alias new +- qemu-user's madvise always succeeds (broke pthread_getattr_np) +- passing PT_INTERP to dlopen attempted to double-load libc +- gcc 4.8.x generating self-referential (infinite recursion) memcpy/memset +- linux's lack of support for fchdir, fchmod, fchown, fstat on O_PATH fds + +bugs fixed: +- failure to honor flags for fchmodat and faccessat (linux syscall api flaws) +- SIGEV_THREAD timer id corruption and race condition issues +- timer thread TLS incorrectly keeping values from previous expiry run +- ecvt/fcvt decimal position off-by-one +- in symbol-versioned libs, symbol resolved to oldest instead of newest +- posix_spawn not correctly reporting errno from exec failure +- "make install" was not atomic (overwrote files rather than replacing) +- integer overflows in strftime +- unset/empty TZ variable was mishandled +- strftime could crash if the struct tm did not have valid tm_zone field +- failure of fenv functions to handle invalid arguments (required by ISO C) +- failure of some math functions (C and i386 asm) to raise underflow flag +- broken dn_expand function (previously not used internally) +- race conditions with signals during fork +- incorrect access check in mktemp (obsolete function) +- unnecessary arbitrary limits on size of program headers in dynamic loader +- text formatting bugs in output of err.h functions + +arch-specific bugs: +- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on i386 +- breakage of arm crt code when libc is compiled as thumb +- arm/armhf (hardfloat) misidentified by configure +- ambiguity of wait (exit status) macros on mips with signal number 127 +- wrong value of _NSIG and SIGRTMAX on mips |