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2000-11-07* charmaps/BIG5: Add mapping for <U20AC> back.Ulrich Drepper
Patch by Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@twcpro.phys.ntu.edu.tw>.
2000-11-06Regenerated.Andreas Jaeger
2000-11-01Update.Ulrich Drepper
2000-11-01 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * configure.in (with_cvs): Test for pserver access.
2000-10-25Regenerated.Andreas Jaeger
2000-10-24Regenerated.Andreas Jaeger
2000-08-09Update.Andreas Jaeger
2000-08-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * configure.in: Change required make versions. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document required make version. (Supported Configurations): Update list of supported configurations.
2000-07-31Update.Ulrich Drepper
2000-07-31 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * inet/Versions: Remove getipnodebyaddr and friends from GLIBC_2.2. * resolv/netdb.h: Remove getipnodebyaddr and friends.
2000-03-10Regenerated.Andreas Jaeger
2000-02-23Update.Ulrich Drepper
* dlfcn/dlopenold.c: Likewise.
2000-01-26Update.Ulrich Drepper
2000-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/fnmatch_loop.c (FCT): Use locale's collating sequence when deciding whether a character falls within a character range. 2000-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/fnmatch_loop.c (FCT): When matching [A-Z] and folding case, lower-case A too. 2000-01-24 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/syscalls.list: Remove old[gs]etrlimit.
1999-12-28Update.Ulrich Drepper
* iconvdata/gb2312.h (ucs4_to_gb2312): Fix mapping of 0x0101, 0x2312, and 0x2500..0x254b. * iconvdata/TESTS: Add EUC-CN. * iconvdata/testdata/EUC-CN: New file.
1999-12-27Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-12-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * iconvdata/gb2312.c: Update mapping of GB 0x212c from latest Unicode tables.
1999-12-21Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-12-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Add getpmsg and putpmsg. 1999-12-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lxstat64.c: Include "kernel-features.h" before testing for __ASSUME_STAT64_SYSCALL. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fxstat64.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstat64.c: Likewise. 1999-12-20 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> * manual/install.texi (Running make install): Clearify that install_root should be an absolute file name. * iconv/gconv.c (__gconv): Deal with outbuf being NULL. * iconv/iconv.c (iconv): Allow omitting output buffer if no input buffer is given to place conversion descriptor in initial state. * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Correct aliases CSPC850MULTILINGUAL and CSPC862LATINHEBREW. * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases GB2312 and csGB2312 (according to IANA registry). Reported by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>. * iconvdata/johab.c: Correct completely broken conversion to JOHAB.
1999-11-23Update.Ulrich Drepper
* include/aio.h: Remove __THROW from internal interfaces. __THROW is only need in external header files that might be compiled by a C++ compiler. * include/alloca.h: Likewise. * include/db.h: Likewise. * include/dirent.h: Likewise. * include/execinfo.h: Likewise. * include/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * include/glob.h: Likewise. * include/grp.h: Likewise. * include/libintl.h: Likewise. * include/math.h: Likewise. * include/math.h: Likewise. * include/mntent.h: Likewise. * include/mntent.h: Likewise. * include/netdb.h: Likewise. * include/pwd.h: Likewise. * include/sched.h: Likewise. * include/shadow.h: Likewise. * include/stdlib.h: Likewise. * include/sys/file.h: Likewise. * include/sys/gmon.h: Likewise. * include/sys/ioctl.h: Likewise. * include/sys/socket.h: Likewise. * include/sys/stat.h: Likewise. * include/sys/sysinfo.h: Likewise. * include/sys/time.h: Likewise. * include/sys/times.h: Likewise. * include/sys/uio.h: Likewise. * include/sys/wait.h: Likewise. * include/termios.h: Likewise. * include/time.h: Likewise. * include/ulimit.h: Likewise. * include/utmp.h: Likewise. * include/wchar.h: Likewise. 1999-11-22 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * sunrpc/rpc_clntout.c (printbody): Fix -CLMNab output. Patch by Jerry Perkins <jrperkins@iname.com>, closes PR libc/1456+1457. 1999-11-22 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> * sysdeps/generic/siglist.h: Avoid declaring the same field twice if SIGPWR is defined to SIGLOST. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/memcpy.S: bcopy takes size_t argument, not signed, so we should not special case it for negative args. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9/memmove.c: Don't use generic memmove, use the one provided in memcpy.S. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/memcpy.S: bcopy should handle overlapping copies like memmove, while the previous version worked like memcpy. Implement optimized assembly memmove. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/memmove.c: New file. 1999-11-23 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * po/cs.po: Update from translators. 1999-11-23 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
1999-11-17Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-11-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * math/fenv.h: Fix typos in comments. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1999-10-11Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-10-11 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/sigaction.h: Declare SA_SIGINFO.
1999-09-05Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-08-31 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * nscd/nscd_getgr_r.c (nscd_getgr_r): Cleanup the buffer count.
1999-08-16Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-07-20 Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> * math/libm-test.c: Tweak deltas for a clean run on ppc.
1999-08-02Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * nis/nis_callback.c (internal_nis_do_callback) use poll() instead of select(). 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/generic/s_nextafter.c: Define __nexttoward and nexttoward so something else so that aliasing works. 1999-08-02 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/generic/math_ldbl.h: Fix typo. * sysdeps/generic/strtold.c: Remove unbalanced #endif. * sysdeps/alpha/fpu/e_sqrt.c: Use new path for e_sqrt.c. 1999-08-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/resolvfail.c: Include stdio.h. Also test dlerror.
1999-07-31Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-07-31 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * string/bits/string2.h (__strcpy_small): Fix a typo.
1999-07-27Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-07-25 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz> * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv8/Makefile: -mv8 is deprecated, use -mcpu=v8. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9/Makefile: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/Makefile: Make %g7 register available for libc's private use (as assembly routine clobber it anyway). 1999-07-26 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * README.template (configurations): The crypt add-on has a new ftp site. * manual/install.texi (Installation): Likewise.
1999-07-26Update.Ulrich Drepper
* libio/iofclose.c (_IO_new_fclose): Detect new streams and handle them appropriately. * libio/oldiofclose.c (_IO_old_fclose): Likewise.
1999-06-06Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-06-04 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * math/libm-test.c (yn_test): Change one delta. (jn_test): Likewise. (j1_test): Likewise. (y0_test): Likewise.
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1999-05-15Update.Ulrich Drepper
* stdlib/strtol.c: Optimize inner loop of long long versions.
1999-05-04Update.Ulrich Drepper
* elf/dl-load.c (expand_dynamic_string_token): Rewrite to loose st variable.
1999-04-10Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-04-10 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.c (_dl_load_cache_lookup): Rewrite to use binary search. Based on a patch by Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>. 1999-04-07 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * manual/install.texi (Reporting Bugs): Add section about reported
1999-04-081999-04-08 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>Andreas Schwab
* manual/install.texi (Reporting Bugs): Add section about reported bugs and correct email address of glibcbug script.
1999-03-22* elf/Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/$(rtld-version-installed-name), Andreas Schwab
$(inst_slibdir)/$(rtld-installed-name), ldso_install): Disable targets if not building shared libraries. 1999-03-22 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * elf/Makefile ($(inst_slibdir)/$(rtld-version-installed-name), $(inst_slibdir)/$(rtld-installed-name), ldso_install): Disable targets if not building shared libraries.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-03-08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * locales/ru_RU (mon): Fix March and May month name translations. Reported by Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru>.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-03-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/llio.texi (Open-time Flags): Clarify that O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK are BSD extensions. Reported by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de> [PR libc/985].
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1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-03-02 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> * Makerules (LD_FLAGS-c.so): Add -u __register_frame to force the backward compatibility EH functions to be linked when using gcc-2.8.1. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-03-08 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname.c (ttyname): Undo last change. /dev/pts status may change during runtime. 1999-03-08 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ttyname_r.c (__ttyname_r): Undo last change. /dev/pts status can change during runtime. 1999-03-07 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sunrpc/svc_tcp.c (readtcp): go into fatal error state if poll reports error. * nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-parser.c: Avoid duplicate strlen calls, add some more sanity checks. * nis/nss_nisplus/nisplus-pwd.c: Include nisplus-parser.h for parser prototype. 1999-03-05 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Add x_getint32/x_putint32 to xdr_ops, change XDR_GETINT32/XDR_PUTINT32 to sue new functions. * sunrpc/xdr_mem.c: Add xdrmem_getint32, xdrmem_putint32. * sunrpc/xdr_rec.c: Add xdrrec_getint32, xdrrec_putint32. * sunrpc/xdr_sizeof.c: Add x_putint32, add dummy function for x_getint32. * sunrpc/xdr_stdio.c: Add xdrstdio_getint32, xdrstdio_putint32. * nis/nis_print.c: Fix ctime argument for platforms where sizeof (time_t) != sizeof (int). 255. Patch by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> [PR libc/1010].
1999-03-01Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-03-01 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/i386/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Rename field uc_links to uc_link which is the right name according to Unix98. Reported by Craig Metz [PR libc/1001]. * sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/mips/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise.
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1999-02-11Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-02-11 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * localedata/locale/in_ID: New file. 1999-02-11 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/wordsize-64/inttypes.h: Always define ldiv_t if not yet defined. * sysdeps/wordsize-32/inttypes.h: Always define lldiv_t if not yet defined.
1999-02-07Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-02-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * Versions.def: Add versions for ld.so. * csu/Versions: Remove __libc_stack_end here. * elf/Versions: Split libc definitions in libc and ld.so definitions. * elf/Makefile (ld-map): Change to ld.so.map. * scripts/versions.awk: Recognize dot in library names. * ctype/ctype.h: Remove definitions of __tolower and __toupper. Don't use __tolower and __toupper in inline functions. Add optimizing macros for tolower and toupper. * ctype/ctype-extn.c (_tolower): Don't use __tolower. (_toupper): Don't use __toupper. * ctype/ctype.c (tolower): Don't use __tolower. (toupper): Don't use toupper. * nscd/cache.c (prune_cache): Correct printing of debugging messages. * resolv/Versions (libresolv): Export __ns_name_unpack and __ns_name_ntop. * resolv/res_comp.c: Rename ns_name_unpack to __ns_name_unpack and make it global. Change all users. Similar for ns_name_ntop. * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Don't use dn_expand when extracting in user-provided buffer. Use __ns_name_unpack and __ns_name_ntop directly to detect too small buffer. * stdio-common/Makefile (tests): Add scanf12. * stdio-common/scanf12.c: New file. * stdio-common/scanf12.input: New file. * stdio-common/vfscanf.c (__vfscanf): Handle +/- at beginning of floating-point correctly if the number is invalid. * stdio-common/vfscanf.c: Don't use non-reentrant multibyte conversion * stdio-common/printf_fphex.c: Likewise. * stdio-common/vfprintf.c: Likewise. See ChangeLog.9 for earlier changes.
1999-02-04Update.glibc-2.1cvs/glibc-2_1Ulrich Drepper
1999-02-04 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * stdlib/strtoll.c: Add alias __strtoq_internal. * stdlib/strtoull.c: Add alias __strtouq_internal. * wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Correct logic testing for converted NUL character. Patch by Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>.
1999-02-02Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-02-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/reboot.c: Make sure first parameter is correctly passed to the kernel even on 64bit platforms. Patch by Bruce Elliott <bde@nwlink.com>. * localedata/locales/it_CH: New file. Contributed by Giacomo Amabile Catenazzi <gcatenaz@g26.ethz.ch>.
1999-01-29Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/wordsize-32/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C, UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Remove casts, they must be integer constants. Use ## directly instead of __CONCAT so that the suffix string is not expanded as a macro. * sysdeps/wordsize-64/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C, UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Likewise. (INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX, UINT64_MAX, INT_LEAST64_MIN, INT_LEAST64_MAX, UINT_LEAST64_MAX, INT_FAST16_MIN, INT_FAST32_MIN, INT_FAST64_MIN, INT_FAST16_MAX, INT_FAST32_MAX, INT_FAST64_MAX, UINT_FAST16_MAX, UINT_FAST32_MAX, UINT_FAST64_MAX, INTMAX_MIN, INTMAX_MAX, UINTMAX_MAX): Define as long constants, not long long. 1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * locale/mb_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Correct return type to size_t. * locale/broken_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise. * stdlib/stdlib.h (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise. 1999-01-27 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Deleted.
1999-01-27Update.Ulrich Drepper
* time/strptime.c (strptime_internal, case 's'): Initialize secs to zero. Patch by Bruce Elliott <bde@nwlink.com>. 1999-01-27 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * elf/Makefile (extra-objs): Add test modules objects. 1999-01-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
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1999-01-20Update.Ulrich Drepper
1999-01-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/vfork.c: Once again use generic version.
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1998-12-02Update.Ulrich Drepper
1998-12-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/elf.h: Add R_MIPS_JALR and adjust R_MIPS_NUM appropriately. 1998-12-02 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * inet/Versions: Remove inet6_isipv4mapped. 1998-12-02 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * inet/in6_addr.c (inet6_isipv4mapped): Obsolete, deleted. 1998-11-30 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * manual/time.texi (Formatting Date and Time): Fix typo. 1998-11-30 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in: Only check for symlinks when configuring natively. Use autoconf macros instead of rolling our own. Handle defaulted prefix.
1998-12-01Update.Ulrich Drepper
1998-12-01 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * Makefile (postclean): Add sysd-sorted.
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