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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f616e82fda..71159014b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,24 +18,33 @@ Version 2.1 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt. -* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X +* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X. * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point - numbers + numbers. -* scanf recognizes the %A format for scanning floating point numbers +* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers. * the new header <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides information and - interfaces for the available integer types + interfaces for the available integer types. * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math - functions from ISO C 9X + functions from ISO C 9X. + +* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or + real valued functions. * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2. * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library. * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon. + +* Ulrich Drepper added character conversion functions. + +* Optimized string functions have been added. + +* The localedata addon is now part of glibc. Version 2.0.5 |