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author | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2019-04-21 08:39:25 -0300 |
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committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2019-04-21 08:39:25 -0300 |
commit | 25f7a3c96116a9102df8bf7b04ef160faa32416d (patch) | |
tree | 4223af662d233bcb4998c40417c4039f17f08341 /NEWS | |
parent | 9bf8e29ca136094f73f69f725f15c51facc97206 (diff) | |
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Fix NEWS entry from 9bf8e29ca136
* NEWS: Move memory allocation changes of BZ#23741 from 2.29 to 2.30 notes.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index db1ca8125b..63581b3618 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Major new features: * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale. +* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc, + pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size + larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with + pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might + overflow the ptrdiff_t type. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime, @@ -160,12 +166,6 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))). -* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc, - pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size - larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with - pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might - overflow the ptrdiff_t type. - Changes to build and runtime requirements: * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library. |