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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6676b1e019..5881885546 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2002-7-24 -Copyright (C) 1992-2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992-2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to @@ -14,30 +14,30 @@ Version 2.3 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale". -* localedef now can transliterate characters in strings which are not in +* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used. * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek. -* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation but eliminating +* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating copying and buffer underflows. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper. * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c. -* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX conforming +* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant implementation of regex. * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support Unicode 3.2. -* Content of The LC_* and LANG environments in the CEN style is not recognized - anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. +* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are + not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper. -* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the TLS - ABI on some platforms. Changes by Ulrich Drepper. - SH support by Kaz Kojima. +* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF + thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms. + Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, and EUC-JISX0213. |