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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f310b2c050..83c1b9eb6d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to Version 2.3.2 +* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data + were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS. + Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t' + object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale. + The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h> + create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function + `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so + parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added + in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath. + * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h> and are now also available on the Hurd. @@ -16,10 +26,13 @@ Version 2.3.2 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names. This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead. +* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for + PowerPC machines with no FPU. + * fexecve is implemented on Linux. -* the btowc() function should work 2+ times faster due to specialized - callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. +* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to + specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible. Version 2.3 @@ -56,7 +69,7 @@ Version 2.3 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima. * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213, - EUC-JISX0213, and TISCII. + EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII. * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs': BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses. @@ -1394,7 +1407,7 @@ Version 1.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the |