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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9d4c7d63ea..a20648f6a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -107,6 +107,29 @@ Version 1.10 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device. + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style + shared memory and IPC on systems that support it. + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found + in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective + implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple + binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random + number generator. + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the + `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc. + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several + string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors. + +* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely + on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux. + The GNU library now supports Linux versions 1.3.29 and later, + using the ELF object file format (i[345]86-*-linux). + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to + support multiple languages, for use with his new package GNU gettext. Version 1.09 |