release notes for 0.9.2

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Rich Felker 2012-06-24 21:00:57 -04:00
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- 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
0.9.2 release notes
bug fixes:
- pointer overflow in printf (crash on 32bit userspace, 64bit kernel)
- printf %ls over-read bug
- strtod failure to read -0x as negative zero
- flush stdio after dtors, not before
- wrong file position for buffered input streams on exit
- popen was broken when stdin/out were already closed
- broken wcwidth tables (missing many characters)
- fwrite: wrong return value of partial/failed write
- broken utf-16 conversions
- bad buffer length check in getlogin_r
- bad perror("") behavior; did not match perror(0)
- broken sysinfo syscall/structure
- stdint.h const macro signedness bugs
- broken include guards in some headers
- bogus localeconv values
- cancellation-safety for popen and pclose
- fma corner cases wrong on i386
- fcntl F_GETOWN errno missing on failure.
- char signedness bug in dynamic linker broke dlopen on arm
- mprotect failure in dynamic linker caused crash instead of error
build system:
- configure check to work around hacked-up gcc versions
- test for old binutils that can't support musl dynamic linker
compatibility:
- make _GNU_SOURCE imply _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
- syscall wrapper for lots of nonstandard and/or legacy linux syscalls
- versionsort stub
- timegm function (inverse of gmtime)
- various minor header tweaks
- make __freading/__fwriting semantics match traditional ones
- added gnulib-compatibility stdio interfaces
- added pthread_attr_setstack interface
- make strerror_r return partial string when buffer is too small
- duplocale should accept LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE
- align ptsname_r to upcoming posix requirements
- support invalid ld80 bit patterns as extra nans.