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- From: roland@prep.ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath)
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- Subject: [gnu.announce] GNU C library version 1.04
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- Date: 4 Sep 1992 06:03:43 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Archive-name: auto/gnu.announce/GNU-C-library-version-1-04
-
- Version 1.04 of the GNU C library is now available for anonymous FTP from
- prep.ai.mit.edu in the file glibc-1.04.tar.Z (about 1.1 megabytes
- compressed). I am not distributing diffs from version 1.03 because the
- diffs are so large. A simple unidiff between 1.03 and 1.04 is about 890k
- compressed, not much smaller than the 1.04 distribution itself.
-
- There are still some old bugs having to do with floating-point numbers that
- remain unfixed in this release. Since it has been such a long time since
- the 1.03 release, and I have fixed so many other problems, I decided not to
- delay the release any longer to fix the floating-point-related bugs.
-
- As of this release, the GNU C library includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast
- Crypt, which provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry
- points. Because of the United States export restriction on DES
- implementations, we are distributing this code separately from the rest of
- the C library. There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it
- is called `glibc-1.04-crypt.tar.Z' (about 44k compressed). You can just
- unpack the crypt distribution along with the rest of the C library and
- build; you can also build the library without getting crypt. Users outside
- the USA can get the crypt distribution via anonymous FTP from ftp.uni-c.dk
- [129.142.6.74], or another archive site outside the USA. Archive
- maintainers are encouraged to copy this distribution to their archives
- outside the USA. Please get it from ftp.uni-c.dk; transferring this
- distribution from prep.ai.mit.edu (or any other site in the USA) to a site
- outside the USA is in violation of US export laws.
-
- The GNU C library is a complete drop-in replacement for libc.a on Unix.
- It conforms to the ANSI C standard and POSIX.1, has most of the functions
- specified by POSIX.2, and is intended to be upward compatible with 4.3
- BSD. It also has several functions from System V and other systems, plus
- GNU extensions.
-
- The GNU C library has been ported to: sparcs and Sun 3s running SunOS 4.1,
- HP 9000/300 and Sony NEWS workstations running 4.3 BSD, and MIPS
- DECStations running Ultrix 4. The port to the i386 running either System
- V, SVR4, or BSD, is mostly complete but has not been well tested. Porting
- the library is not hard.
-
- People interested in porting the GNU C library should get on the mailing
- (see below). The INSTALL file now includes some porting instructions which
- should help people get started. If you have questions, or are doing a
- port, tell the mailing list about it.
-
- Other notable changes since 1.03 are:
-
- * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
- script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
- packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
- The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
-
- * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
- traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
- it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
-
- * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
- Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
- made itself into a shared library.
-
- * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
- with limited length.
-
- * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
-
- * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
-
- * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
-
- * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
- function for traversing a directory tree.
-
- * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
- The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
- writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
- formatted output directly to an obstack.
-
- * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
- cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
-
- * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
- These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
- supporting those systems.
-
- * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
- compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
-
- * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
- function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
- significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
- now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
- of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
- required storage is not available.
-
- All bug reports for the GNU C library should be sent to the mailing list
- bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu
- There are no corresponding info- or help- lists at this time. There
- will be a repeater gnewsgroup, gnu.libc.bug, as soon as the gateway is
- set up. If you won't be able to read the gnewsgroup, you can subscribe
- to the list by asking:
- bug-glibc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Be patient when subscribing, a lot of requests are expected.
-
- Please DO NOT send bug report for the GNU C library to bug-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu.
- That list is for bug reports for GNU CC. GNU CC and the GNU C library are
- separate entities maintained by separate people, and the C library
- maintainer does not read bug-gcc.
-
- If you send patches, please also report what the bugs you think you are
- fixing are! Large mounds of patches with comments like "foobar was
- broken", or "foobar didn't handle frobnication right" are very difficult to
- deal with. Unless you tell me, I have no way of knowing how to reproduce
- the bugs you found and figure out the right solution, and I cannot assume
- that your solution is correct.
-
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