release notes for 0.9.4

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Rich Felker 2012-08-17 23:51:00 -04:00
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@ -677,3 +677,32 @@ arm-specific bug fixes:
build system:
- only use expensive -ffloat-store cflag on archs/compilers that need it
- make musl-gcc wrapper support -lgcc (mainly for self-hosting)
0.9.4 release notes
new features:
- blowfish crypt
- dynamic linking on mips
- arm hard float support
- BSD fgetln function in stdio
- minor header improvements for compatibility
- support for CROSS_COMPILE variable to configure
- legacy significand function
- better support for SUSv3-targeted programs
performance:
- assembly (string ops based) memcpy for i386 and x86_64
- reduce printf overhead
bug fixes:
- failure of strtod, etc. to process extremely long strings correctly
- read overrun in wcsstr for short needles
- various major mips issues that prevented most software from working
- erroneous floating point exception behavior in i386/x86_64 exp asm
- crashes on null arguments to legacy err.h functions
- various header file/type issues
- extremely rare/obscure race condition with robust mutexes
- crypt now never returns null (most programs don't check, then crash)
- missing xattr remove functions