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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c5b0d45c49..0c1743f11a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ Version 1.10 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The profiling code was adapted from 4.4 BSD-Lite. +* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from + Sun, and modified by JT Conklin with i387 support and by Ian Taylor with + `float' functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, + so programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands. + * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities). @@ -53,6 +58,10 @@ Version 1.10 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale'). +* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on + wide-character and multibyte-character strings; see <wcstr.h> and <mbstr.h>. + These new functions are intended to conform to the ISO C specification. + * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example, `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints @@ -163,10 +172,13 @@ Version 1.10 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it. -* The 4.4 BSD `db' library has been incorporated into the GNU C library. - New header files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for - several types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and - <ndbm.h> is an old `ndbm'-compatbile interface using the `db' functions. +* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header + files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several + types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is + an old `ndbm'-compatbile interface using the `db' functions. + +* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack + space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'. Version 1.09 |