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authorJoseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>2013-10-26 00:48:25 +0000
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@@ -64,6 +64,18 @@ Version 2.19
command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
for which the C library was built.
+* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
+ which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
+ consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
+ with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
+ old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
+ in the following circumstances:
+
+ + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
+
+ + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
+ be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
+
* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
--disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
@@ -73,6 +85,8 @@ Version 2.19
* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
+
+* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
Version 2.18