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* first try at writing an efficient and "correct" exp10Rich Felker2012-04-304-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | this is a nonstandard function so it's not clear what conditions it should satisfy. my intent is that it be fast and exact for positive integral exponents when the result fits in the destination type, and fast and correctly rounded for small negative integral exponents. otherwise we aim for at most 1ulp error; it seems to differ from pow by at most 1ulp and it's often 2-5 times faster than pow.
* make stack protector work with gcc configured for non-tls canaryRich Felker2012-04-301-0/+2
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* fix off-by-one error that caused uninitialized memory read in floatscanRich Felker2012-04-301-1/+1
| | | | | | this caused misreading of certain floating point values that are exact multiples of large powers of ten, unpredictable depending on prior stack contents.
* fix typo in the x86_64 rounding asmRich Felker2012-04-294-4/+4
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* new math asm (abs/rounding) for x86_64Rich Felker2012-04-296-0/+36
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* fix float_t and double_t defs on x86 when -mfpmath=sse -msse2 is usedRich Felker2012-04-291-0/+5
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* add linux-specific unshare syscall wrapperRich Felker2012-04-292-0/+9
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* fix longstanding missing static in mq_notify (namespace pollution)Rich Felker2012-04-291-1/+1
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* new fnmatch implementationRich Felker2012-04-281-131/+273
| | | | | | | | | | unlike the old one, this one's algorithm does not suffer from potential stack overflow issues or pathologically bad performance on certain patterns. instead of backtracking, it uses a matching algorithm which I have not seen before (unsure whether I invented or re-invented it) that runs in O(1) space and O(nm) time. it may be possible to improve the time to O(n), but not without significantly greater complexity.
* support FLT_EVAL_METHOD changing on x86 with gcc -msse2 -mfpmath=sseRich Felker2012-04-271-0/+4
| | | | | if the compiler provides a value, use it; otherwise fallback to the platform default (2).
* update fnmatch to POSIX 2008 semanticsRich Felker2012-04-261-4/+11
| | | | | | | an invalid bracket expression must be treated as if the opening bracket were just a literal character. this is to fix a bug whereby POSIX left the behavior of the "[" shell command undefined due to it being an invalid bracket expression.
* release notes for 0.8.10 v0.8.10Rich Felker2012-04-251-0/+28
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* gdb shared library debugging supportRich Felker2012-04-251-5/+32
| | | | | provide the minimal level of dynamic linker-to-debugger glue needed to let gdb find loaded libraries and load their symbols.
* first attempt at enabling stack protector supportRich Felker2012-04-243-0/+28
| | | | | | | | the code is written to pre-init the thread pointer in static linked programs that pull in __stack_chk_fail or dynamic-linked programs that lookup the symbol. no explicit canary is set; the canary will be whatever happens to be in the thread structure at the offset gcc hard-coded. this can be improved later.
* use signed char rather than plain char for int8_tRich Felker2012-04-243-12/+12
| | | | otherwise this BADLY breaks if -funsigned-char is passed to gcc
* add another example option to dist/config.makRich Felker2012-04-241-0/+3
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* ditch the priority inheritance locks; use malloc's version of lockRich Felker2012-04-2415-77/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i did some testing trying to switch malloc to use the new internal lock with priority inheritance, and my malloc contention test got 20-100 times slower. if priority inheritance futexes are this slow, it's simply too high a price to pay for avoiding priority inversion. maybe we can consider them somewhere down the road once the kernel folks get their act together on this (and perferably don't link it to glibc's inefficient lock API)... as such, i've switch __lock to use malloc's implementation of lightweight locks, and updated all the users of the code to use an array with a waiter count for their locks. this should give optimal performance in the vast majority of cases, and it's simple. malloc is still using its own internal copy of the lock code because it seems to yield measurably better performance with -O3 when it's inlined (20% or more difference in the contention stress test).
* internal locks: new owner of contended lock must set waiters flagRich Felker2012-04-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this bug probably would have gone unnoticed since it's only used in the fallback code for systems where priority-inheritance locking fails. unfortunately this approach results in one spurious wake syscall on the final unlock, when there are no waiters remaining. the alternative (possibly better) would be to use broadcast wakes instead of reflagging the waiter unconditionally, and let each waiter reflag itself; this saves one syscall at the expense of invoking the "thundering herd" effect (worse performance degredation) when there are many waiters. ideally we would be able to update all of our locks to use an array of two ints rather than a single int, and use a separate counter system like proper mutexes use; then we could avoid all spurious wake calls without resorting to broadcasts. however, it's not clear to me that priority inheritance futexes support this usage. the kernel sets the waiters flag for them (just like we're doing now) and i can't tell if it's safe to bypass the kernel when unlocking just because we know (from private data, the waiter count) that there are no waiters. this is something that could be explored in the future.
* new internal locking primitive; drop spinlocksRich Felker2012-04-242-7/+29
| | | | | | we use priority inheritance futexes if possible so that the library cannot hit internal priority inversion deadlocks in the presence of realtime priority scheduling (full support to be added later).
* new wcwidth implementation (fast table-based)Rich Felker2012-04-243-179/+125
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i tried to go with improving the old binary-search-based algorithm, but between growth in the number of ranges, bad performance, and lack of confidence in the binary search code's stability under changes in the table, i decided it was worth the extra 1.8k to have something clean and maintainable. also note that, like the alpha and punct tables, there's definitely room to optimize the nonspacing/wide tables by overlapping subtables. this is not a high priority, but i've begun looking into how to do it, and i suspect the table sizes can be roughly halved. if that turns out to be true, the new, fast, table-based implementation will be roughly the same size as if i had just extended the old binary search one.
* sync case mappings with unicode 6.1Rich Felker2012-04-232-8/+30
| | | | | | | also special-case ß (U+00DF) as lowercase even though it does not have a mapping to uppercase. unicode added an uppercase version of this character but does not map it, presumably because the uppercase version is not actually used except for some obscure purpose...
* optimize iswprintRich Felker2012-04-231-3/+12
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* fix spurious punct class for some surrogate codepoints (invalid)Rich Felker2012-04-231-59/+56
| | | | this happened due to their entries in UnicodeData.txt
* destubify iswalpha and update iswpunct to unicode 6.1Rich Felker2012-04-235-135/+252
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | alpha is defined as unicode property "Alphabetic" plus category Nd minus ASCII digits minus 2 special-cased Thai punctuation marks supposedly misclassified by Unicode as letters. punct is defined as all of unicode except control, alphanumeric, and space characters. the tables were generated by a simple tool based on the code posted previously to the mailing list. in the future, this and other code used for maintaining locale/iconv/i18n data will be published either in the main source repository or in a separate locale data generation repository.
* make dlerror produce informative resultsRich Felker2012-04-231-4/+15
| | | | | | | | | | note that dlerror is specified to be non-thread-safe, so no locking is performed on the error flag or message aside from the rwlock already held by dlopen or dlsym. if 2 invocations of dlsym are generating errors at the same time, they could clobber each other's results, but the resulting string, albeit corrupt, will still be null-terminated. any use of dlerror in such a situation could not be expected to give meaningful results anyway.
* implement getusershell, etc. legacy functionsRich Felker2012-04-222-0/+36
| | | | | I actually wrote these a month ago but forgot to integrate them. ugly, probably-harmful-to-use functions, but some legacy apps want them...
* getdtablesize is not standard; move it to its correct spot in unistd.hRich Felker2012-04-221-1/+1
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* new gcc wrapper, entirely specfile basedRich Felker2012-04-224-63/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | the _concept_ of this wrapper has been tested extensively, but the integration with the build/install system, and using a persistent specfile rather than one generated at build-time, have not been heavily tested and may need minor tweaks. this approach should be a lot more robust (and easier to improve) than writing a shell script that's responsible for trying to mimic gcc's logic about whether it's compiling or linking, building shared libs or executable files, etc. it's also lighter weight and should result in mildly faster builds when using the wrapper.
* remove redundant (unmaintained) check in floatscanRich Felker2012-04-221-3/+3
| | | | also be extra careful to avoid wrapping the circular buffer early
* fix breakage in endian.hRich Felker2012-04-221-1/+1
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* add some ugly byte swapping cruft in endian.hRich Felker2012-04-221-0/+59
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* add getresuid and getresgid syscall wrappersRich Felker2012-04-223-0/+18
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* fix major breakage in iconv, bogus rejecting of dest charsetsRich Felker2012-04-211-1/+1
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* make floatscan correctly set errno for overflow/underflowRich Felker2012-04-211-4/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | care is taken that the setting of errno correctly reflects underflow condition. scanning exact denormal values does not result in ERANGE, nor does scanning values (such as the usual string definition of FLT_MIN) which are actually less than the smallest normal number but which round to a normal result. only the decimal case is handled so far; hex float require a separate fix to come later.
* skip leading zeros even after decimal point in floatscanRich Felker2012-04-211-4/+9
| | | | | | in principle this should just be an optimization, but it happens to also fix a nasty bug where values like 0.00000000001 were getting caught by the early zero detection path and wrongly scanned as zero.
* fix overread (consuming an extra byte) scanning NANRich Felker2012-04-211-1/+1
| | | | bug detected by glib test suite
* fix broken sysconf when correct value is -1Rich Felker2012-04-211-1/+1
| | | | | this caused glib to try to allocate >2gb for getpwnam_r, and probably numerous other problems.
* release notes for 0.8.9 (bugfix release) v0.8.9Rich Felker2012-04-191-0/+11
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* further fixes to leading space issue (forgot the wide versions)Rich Felker2012-04-192-5/+9
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* fix really bad breakage in strtol, etc.: failure to accept leading spacesRich Felker2012-04-195-10/+9
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* fix header typoRich Felker2012-04-181-1/+1
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* legacy junk compatibility grab-bagRich Felker2012-04-186-7/+36
| | | | | | - add the rest of the junk traditionally in sys/param.h - add prototypes for some nonstandard functions - add _GNU_SOURCE to their source files so the compiler can check proto
* fix incorrect macro name for MATH_ERREXCEPT in math.hRich Felker2012-04-181-1/+1
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* release notes for 0.8.8 v0.8.8Rich Felker2012-04-181-0/+34
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* fix typo in exponent reading code or floatsRich Felker2012-04-181-1/+1
| | | | | this was basically harmless, but could have resulted in misreading inputs with more than a few gigabytes worth of digits..
* fix wide scanf's handling of input failure on %c, and simplify %[Rich Felker2012-04-171-5/+6
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* fix failure to distinguish input/match failure in wide %[ scanfRich Felker2012-04-172-2/+4
| | | | | this also includes a related fix for vswscanf's read function, which was returning a spurious (uninitialized) character for empty strings.
* fix over-read in %ls with non-wide scanfRich Felker2012-04-171-0/+1
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* fix broken %s and %[ with no width specifier in wide scanfRich Felker2012-04-171-3/+7
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* fix failure to read infinity in scanfRich Felker2012-04-171-3/+4
| | | | | | this code worked in strtod, but not in scanf. more evidence that i should design a better interface for discarding multiple tail characters than just calling unget repeatedly...