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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 77631ca707..ef0843fd91 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -257,6 +257,17 @@ Version 2.30 Major new features: +* Start of implementing vector math library libmvec on PPC64/POWER8. + The double-precision cosine now has a vector version. + GCC support for auto-vectorization of functions on PPC64 is not yet + available. Until that is done, the new vector math functions are + inaccessible to applications. + Library libmvec is built by default for PPC64. Disable its creation by + passing flag --disable-mathvec to configure. + The library ABI specification is x86_64 Vector Function ABI. + More information on libmvec including a link to the ABI document is at: + <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> + * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat). |