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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 27 March 1995 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 July 1995 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ Version 1.10 Run `configure --help' to see the details. * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized - (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). - The `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' - options to `configure' enable building these extra libraries. - The shared library is built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. + (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The + `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to + `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is + built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries + are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time + loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The + new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time + dynamic linker, `ld.so'. * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and @@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ Version 1.10 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD. -* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA14 release. +* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA24 release. * The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block. This can be |