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diff --git a/CONFORMANCE b/CONFORMANCE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c0e8f6b92d --- /dev/null +++ b/CONFORMANCE @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +Conformance of the GNU libc with various standards +================================================== + +The GNU libc is designed to be conformant with existing standard as +far as possible. TO ensure this I've run various tests. The results +are presented here. + + +Open Group's hdrchk +------------------- + +The hdrchk test suite is available from the Open Group at + + ftp://ftp.rdg.opengroup.org/pub/unsupported/stdtools/hdrchk/ + +I've last run the suite on 1998-07-08 on a Linux/ix86 system with the +following results [*]: + + FIPS No reported problems + + POSIX90 No reported problems + + XPG3 No reported problems + + XPG4 The wide character I/O stuff is missing in glibc. + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +*** Starting wchar.h +Missing: extern wint_t fgetwc(); +Missing: extern wchar_t *fgetws(); +Missing: extern wint_t fputwc(); +Missing: extern int fputws(); +Missing: extern wint_t getwc(); +Missing: extern wint_t getwchar(); +Missing: extern wint_t putwc(); +Missing: extern wchar_t putwchar(); +Missing: extern wint_t ungetwc(); +Missing: extern size_t wcsftime(); +*** Completed wchar.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + Beside this a problem in stdio.h is reported but + this is only because the scripts don't understand + the sometimes complex constructs in the header. + + POSIX96 Same as UNIX98 [see below]. + UNIX98 Quite a lot of problems, almost all due to limitations + of the Linux kernel (2.1.108): + +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +*** Starting mqueue.h +Missing #include file: mqueue.h +*** Completed mqueue.h +*** Starting semaphore.h +Missing: #define SEM_FAILED (-1) +Missing: extern int sem_close(); +Missing: extern sem_t *sem_open(); +Missing: extern int sem_unlink(); +*** Completed semaphore.h +*** Starting signal.h +Missing: #define SIGSYS (-1) +*** Completed signal.h +*** Starting sys/mman.h +Missing: extern int shm_open(); +Missing: extern int shm_unlink(); +*** Completed sys/mman.h +*** Starting sys/stat.h +Missing: #define S_TYPEISMQ (-1) +Missing: #define S_TYPEISSEM (-1) +Missing: #define S_TYPEISSHM (-1) +*** Completed sys/stat.h +*** Starting sys/types.h +Missing: typedef <type> clockid_t; +Missing: typedef <type> timer_t; +*** Completed sys/types.h +*** Starting time.h +Missing: #define CLOCK_REALTIME (-1) +Missing: #define TIMER_ABSTIME (-1) +Missing: extern int clock_getres(); +Missing: extern int clock_gettime(); +Missing: extern int clock_settime(); +Missing: struct itimerspec { <members> }; +Missing: extern int timer_create(); +Missing: extern int timer_delete(); +Missing: extern int timer_getoverrun(); +Missing: extern int timer_gettime(); +Missing: extern int timer_settime(); +*** Completed time.h +*** Starting unistd.h +Missing: #define _POSIX_MESSAGE_PASSING (-1) +Missing: #define _POSIX_SEMAPHORES (-1) +Missing: #define _POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY_OBJECTS (-1) +Missing: #define _POSIX_TIMERS (-1) +*** Completed unistd.h +*** Starting wchar.h +Missing: extern wint_t fgetwc(); +Missing: extern wchar_t *fgetws(); +Missing: extern wint_t fputwc(); +Missing: extern int fputws(); +Missing: extern int fwide(); +Missing: extern int fwprintf(); +Missing: extern int fwscanf(); +Missing: extern wint_t getwc(); +Missing: extern wint_t getwchar(); +Missing: extern wint_t putwc(); +Missing: extern wchar_t putwchar(); +Missing: extern int swprintf(); +Missing: extern int swscanf(); +Missing: extern wint_t ungetwc(); +Missing: extern int vfwprintf(); +Missing: extern int vswprintf(); +Missing: extern int vwprintf(); +Missing: extern size_t wcsftime(); +Missing: extern wchar_t *wcswcs(); +Missing: extern int wprintf(); +Missing: extern int wscanf(); +*** Completed wchar.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + Only the `wchar.h' problems result from glibc + defficiencies since we still don't support wide + character I/O. + +[*] Since the scripts are not clever enough for the way gcc handles +include files (namely, putting some of them in gcc-local directory) I +copied over the iso646.h, float.h, and stddef.h headers and ignored the +problems resulting from the splitted limits.h file). |