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@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Major new features:
in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
+* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
+ alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128
+ interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These
+ are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
+ this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer