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diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 69129896..03adfad3 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -456,3 +456,37 @@ bug fixes: - strtoull wrongly rejecting the highest 16 possible values as overflow - math.h constant expression fixes for INFINITY/NAN/etc. - scanf mishandling of "0" with "%x" + + + +0.8.8 release notes + +new feature: +- major math correctness and performance improvements +- many math functions implemented in asm for i386 +- some math functions (mostly long double) in asm for x86_64 +- new floating point parser/converter with correct rounding +- implement wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold +- new scanf implementation - cleaner, faster, more correct +- minimal/incomplete strfmon implementation + +compatibility: +- header fixes for c++ +- regex code resync with TRE; support common regex extensions +- support for compiling apps with gcc's -funsigned-char +- sysconf now returns dynamic limits for open files, processes +- give dlerror proper error status stickiness +- make alloca work even with -fno-builtin + +critical security fixes: +- stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf on unbuffered files + +other bug fixes: +- rare gcc register allocation (miscompilation) bug in syscall wrappers +- printf was rejecting the valid (but redundant) %lf format specifier +- fixed big data bloat (missing const) in math functions +- many math fixes related to floating point exceptions and rounding +- corrected DECIMAL_DIG definitions +- tgammal was wrongly setting global signgam +- crash in wordfree with uninitialized we_offs +- fix wordexp not null-initializing the we_offs initial slots |