From 0bd7ac05d1c6691a7ff33c0145adcafb4f4803df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:35:51 -0400 Subject: release notes for 0.8.10 --- WHATSNEW | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 5251eb08..ff93ce70 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -501,3 +501,31 @@ bug fixes: compatibility: - prototypes for a few additional nonstandard functions + + + +0.8.10 release notes + +new features: +- correct over/underflow detection (ERANGE setting) for strtod +- new musl-gcc wrapper, specfile based, faster and more robust +- meaningful return strings for dlerror +- new iswalpha, iswpunct, and wcwidth; sync'd to Unicode 6.1 +- towupper/towlower sync'd with Unicode 6.1 +- new futex-based libc-internal locks instead of spinlocks +- experimental stack protector support (minimal; no random canary) +- experimental gdb shared library tracking support + +compatibility: +- getusershell family functions +- getresuid and getresgid syscall wrappers +- byte swapping macros in endian.h +- getdtablesize was wrongly declared in unistd.h for _XOPEN_SOURCE + +bug fixes: +- iconv_open wrongly rejecting most dest charsets (broken in 0.8.0) +- sysconf failure when correct value is -1 (broken in 0.8.8) +- scanf and strtod family functions overreading past NAN (4 bytes vs 3) +- scanf and strtod wrongly treating "0.00000000001", etc. as 0 +- many bugs in towupper/towlower (never seriously tested before) +- int8_t definition was wrong when gcc -funsigned-char was used -- cgit v1.2.1