From d09d068f9b01509da0e40405081157f0fcd39324 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:57:50 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] update WHATSNEW in preparation for release --- WHATSNEW | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 82cb2a20..64a3e908 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -23,11 +23,18 @@ respectively. many internal improvements have been made to the syscall-related code in preparation for porting to x86_64 and other archs. -upcoming 0.6.0 - x86_64 port, header bugfixes +upcoming 0.6.0 - x86_64 port, various important fixes new x86_64 (amd64) architecture port, contributed by Nicholas J. Kain, along with PORTING guide. source tree layout and build system have been improved to accommodate further ports. various bugs that were introduced while making the headers respect C -and POSIX namespace standards have been fixed. +and POSIX namespace standards have been fixed. conformance to the +standards has been improved. + +fixed an inefficiency in qsort that triggered a bug (occasionaly +internal compiler error) in some versions of gcc. + +fixed a major bug in the printf %n specifier that prevented it from +working and caused memory corruption.