From 8a35deede1c2c1ca2e24aae676c90cac49eff073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 02:39:51 -0400 Subject: update readme and release notes for 0.9.0 release (not yet final) --- WHATSNEW | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index ff93ce70..f3db8ad4 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -529,3 +529,36 @@ bug fixes: - 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 + + + +0.9.0 release notes + +license change: MIT + +new features: +- configure script, improved build system +- full stack protector support +- PIE support on x86 and x86_64 +- new O(1) space, O(nm) time implementation of fnmatch +- improved support for sse2 floating point mode on x86 + +compatibility: +- added linux unshare syscall +- exp10 function +- sqrtl support on arm (previously missing) +- removed minimal linux/*.h headers that could conflict with real ones +- support for _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE (mapped to standard fcns with #define) +- better c89 compatibility in headers +- stub versions of sched_* functions (previously missing) +- pthread stacks no longer executable (compat with hardened kernels) + +optimization: +- additional x86_64 math asm +- better formula for acos use in i386 asm + +bug fixes: +- large (up to a few %) errors in strtod for certain values due to bug +- mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs were completely broken (bad exit logic) +- wide printf %.0s could fail due to uninitialized variable +- missing dlerror strings for dlsym in some cases -- cgit v1.2.1