aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--NEWS21
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f310b2c050..83c1b9eb6d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to
Version 2.3.2
+* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
+ were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
+ Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
+ object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
+ The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
+ create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
+ `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
+ parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
+ in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
+
* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
and are now also available on the Hurd.
@@ -16,10 +26,13 @@ Version 2.3.2
* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
+* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
+ PowerPC machines with no FPU.
+
* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
-* the btowc() function should work 2+ times faster due to specialized
- callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
+* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
+ specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
Version 2.3
@@ -56,7 +69,7 @@ Version 2.3
Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
- EUC-JISX0213, and TISCII.
+ EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
@@ -1394,7 +1407,7 @@ Version 1.04
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright information:
-Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,01,02 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the