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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 21f0db5b16..dfc213c78f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 January 1995 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 17 February 1995 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Version 1.10 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the - `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have elf, and - `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This changed resulted in the deletion + `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and + `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files. @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Version 1.10 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). +* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from + strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values, + respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same). + * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'. * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for @@ -48,6 +52,17 @@ Version 1.10 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld. + +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point + printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and + `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly + accurate, and much faster than the old ones. + +* The `printf' family of functions now understand a new formatting flag + for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says to group + numbers as indicated by the locale. In the default "C" locale, numbers + are not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the + usual conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale). Version 1.09 |