From f7eac6eb504f4baf13dbb4d26717942df050ebe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:41:30 +0000 Subject: Mon Mar 4 20:54:40 1996 Andreas Schwab * Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)config.make): Depend on config.h.in. Mon Mar 4 17:35:09 1996 Roland McGrath * hurd/catch-signal.c (hurd_safe_memmove): New function. (hurd_safe_copyin, hurd_safe_copyout): New functions. * hurd/hurd/sigpreempt.h: Declare them. Sun Mar 3 08:43:44 1996 Roland McGrath Replace math code with fdlibm from Sun as modified for netbsd by JT Conklin and Ian Taylor, including x86 FPU support. * sysdeps/libm-ieee754, sysdeps/libm-i387: New directories. * math/math_private.h: New file. * sysdeps/i386/fpu/Implies: New file. * sysdeps/ieee754/Implies: New file. * math/machine/asm.h, math/machine/endian.h: New files. * math/Makefile, math/math.h: Rewritten. * mathcalls.h, math/mathcalls.h: New file, broken out of math.h. * math/finite.c: File removed. * sysdeps/generic/Makefile [$(subdir)=math]: Frobnication removed. * math/test-math.c: Include errno.h and string.h. * sysdeps/unix/bsd/dirstream.h: File removed. * sysdeps/unix/bsd/readdir.c: File removed. --- NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') 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 . 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 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 and . + 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 and provide a rich set of functions for - several types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and - 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 and provide a rich set of functions for several + types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and 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 -- cgit 1.4.1