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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2019-04-21 08:39:25 -0300
committerAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2019-04-21 08:39:25 -0300
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Fix NEWS entry from 9bf8e29ca136
* NEWS: Move memory allocation changes of BZ#23741 from 2.29 to 2.30 notes.
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@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Major new features:
* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
+* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
+ pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
+ larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
+ pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
+ overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
@@ -160,12 +166,6 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
__attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
-* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
- pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
- larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
- pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
- overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
-
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.