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| author | Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> | 2018-02-07 15:45:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me> | 2021-08-27 17:26:00 -0700 |
| commit | b930ad424b81a11296a87ff068ef92dfb6118901 (patch) | |
| tree | eaa5897b0d6db0c42f5079d1eeb29fefe614f235 /NEWS | |
| parent | c4c787ff1b1f33defe1da576fa3f83321e5c1555 (diff) | |
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[BZ #19239] Don't include sys/sysmacros.h from sys/types.h.
This completes the deprecation and removal of this inclusion, which
was begun in the 2.25 release.
* posix/sys/types.h: Don't include sys/sysmacros.h.
* misc/sys/sysmacros.h: Remove the conditional deprecation
warnings for the macros defined by this header.
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@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ Major new features: Czech languages. The Catalan and Greek languages now support abbreviated alternative month names. +Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: + + * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from + the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other + headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely + used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with + user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for + further explanation. + + <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require + these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include + <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined. + Security related changes: CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386 |