release notes for 0.9.1

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Rich Felker 2012-06-03 16:31:45 -04:00
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@ -564,3 +564,37 @@ bug fixes:
- mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs were completely broken (bad exit logic)
- wide printf %.0s could fail due to uninitialized variable
- missing dlerror strings for dlsym in some cases
0.9.1 release notes
new features:
- dynamic linker can be used as a program to explicitly load/run executables
- ldd command, usable by making a symlink to the dynamic linker named ldd
bug fixes:
- major bugs in POSIX BRE parsing inherited from TRE regex code
- character matching bug in regex on ARM: WCHAR_MAX was assumed to be signed
- various obscure fixes related to signals and pthread cancellation
- remquot subnormal remainder bug
- buggy macros in (nonstandard) sys/param.h
- major bug in pthread barriers on x86_64 (out of bounds write)
- utimes (legacy) function was making wrong syscall (utime instead of utimes)
- avoid using "old" syscalls that don't exist on arm eabi linux
- broken strrchr(str, 0)
- broken mbsinit(0)
- broken wcsncmp
- syntax error in nextafter macro in tgmath.h
- missing support for -pie in musl-gcc wrapper
- abort could wrongly fail to terminate the program in some cases
compatibility:
- increase default thread stack size to 80k
- support _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro
- support _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE feature test macro (merely exposes alt names)
- lots of legacy-compatibility improvements in headers
- various minor GNU extension functions
- sysconf reporting number of available CPUs/cores
- various LSB/glibc ABI interfaces aimed at compatibility with some binaries
- use fistpll asm mnemonic instead of fistpq for compat with clang