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2000-08-09Update.Andreas Jaeger1-15/+9
2000-08-09 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * configure.in: Change required make versions. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document required make version. (Supported Configurations): Update list of supported configurations.
2000-07-31Update.Ulrich Drepper1-2/+1
2000-07-31 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * inet/Versions: Remove getipnodebyaddr and friends from GLIBC_2.2. * resolv/netdb.h: Remove getipnodebyaddr and friends.
2000-07-07Update.Ulrich Drepper1-19/+11
2000-07-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * include/signal.h: Declare __libc_sigaction. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Versions: Export __libc_sigaction. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sigaction.c: Add __libc_sigaction alias. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/sigaction.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sigaction.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/sigaction.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/sigaction.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/sigaction.c: Likewise. * configure.in: Fix CLAGS-memprofstat.c definition after 2000-06-19 change. Patch by Bradford W. Johnson <bradford@math.umn.edu>. 2000-07-06 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_rela): Pass 0 instead of NULL to elf_machine_fixup_plt t argument. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_rela): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/mmap64.c (__mmap64): Add cast. 2000-07-06 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * crypt/Makefile (LDLIBS-cert): Removed. (LDLIBS-md5c-test): Removed. ($(objpfx)cert): Renamed from cert.out to fix dependencies. ($(objpfx)md5c-test): Likewise for md5c-test.out.
2000-04-21Update.Ulrich Drepper1-3/+0
2000-04-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * manual/stdio.texi: Give advise about handling error when using stream functions. Patch by Michael Deutschmann <michael@talamasca.ocis.net>.
2000-03-102000-03-09 Martin Buchholz <martin@xemacs.org>Andreas Jaeger1-1/+1
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/syscall.S: * manual/message.texi (Using gettextized software): * manual/message.texi (Message Translation): Doc Fixes. * manual/filesys.texi (File Size): * manual/charset.texi (glibc iconv Implementation): * locale/programs/ld-collate.c (collate_output): * iconv/gconv_db.c (find_derivation): * manual/install.texi: * manual/search.texi (Hash Search Function): * manual/stdio.texi (Output Conversion Syntax): * FAQ.in: * config.h.in: * sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c: Doc Fixes. `allows to' is not correct English. * elf/rtld.c: Doc fixes. * manual/creature.texi (Feature Test Macros): Doc fixes. * manual/memory.texi (Hooks for Malloc): Doc Fixes. * manual/filesys.texi (Working Directory): Check for ERANGE to avoid infloop.
2000-02-23Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+16
2000-02-23 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * dlfcn/dlopen.c: Include <stddef.h> for NULL. * dlfcn/dlsym.c: Likewise. * dlfcn/dlvsym.c: Likewise. * iconv/gconv.c: Likewise.
2000-01-26Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+11
2000-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/fnmatch_loop.c (FCT): Use locale's collating sequence when deciding whether a character falls within a character range. 2000-01-24 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/fnmatch_loop.c (FCT): When matching [A-Z] and folding case, lower-case A too. 2000-01-24 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/syscalls.list: Remove old[gs]etrlimit.
2000-01-26Update.Ulrich Drepper1-27/+27
2000-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/regex.c (GET_UNSIGNED_NUMBER): Allow only ASCII digits. 2000-01-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * posix/regex.c (compile_range): When matching a character range, use the current collating sequence, as POSIX requires.
1999-12-28Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+5
* iconvdata/gb2312.h (ucs4_to_gb2312): Fix mapping of 0x0101, 0x2312, and 0x2500..0x254b. * iconvdata/TESTS: Add EUC-CN. * iconvdata/testdata/EUC-CN: New file.
1999-12-27Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+25
1999-12-27 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * iconvdata/gb2312.c: Update mapping of GB 0x212c from latest Unicode tables.
1999-12-21Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+9
1999-12-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/getmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/getpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/putmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/putpmsg.c: New file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscalls.list: Add getpmsg and putpmsg. 1999-12-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lxstat64.c: Include "kernel-features.h" before testing for __ASSUME_STAT64_SYSCALL. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fxstat64.c: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstat64.c: Likewise. 1999-12-20 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> * manual/install.texi (Running make install): Clearify that install_root should be an absolute file name. * iconv/gconv.c (__gconv): Deal with outbuf being NULL. * iconv/iconv.c (iconv): Allow omitting output buffer if no input buffer is given to place conversion descriptor in initial state. * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Correct aliases CSPC850MULTILINGUAL and CSPC862LATINHEBREW. * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases GB2312 and csGB2312 (according to IANA registry). Reported by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>. * iconvdata/johab.c: Correct completely broken conversion to JOHAB.
1999-11-23Update.Ulrich Drepper1-5/+5
* iconv/skeleton.c: Don't access next_step->fct if data->is_last
1999-11-17Update.Ulrich Drepper1-4/+4
1999-11-16 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * math/fenv.h: Fix typos in comments. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1999-10-11Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+1
1999-10-11 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/bits/sigaction.h: Declare SA_SIGINFO.
1999-09-05Add comment about add-on numbering.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+5
1999-08-28Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+3
1999-08-26 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> * locale/langinfo.h (YESSTR, NOSTR): Still define if __USE_GNU.
1999-08-16Update.Ulrich Drepper1-2/+1
1999-07-20 Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> * math/libm-test.c: Tweak deltas for a clean run on ppc.
1999-08-02Update.Ulrich Drepper1-5/+3
1999-08-02 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/sigaction.c (__sigaction): Only allow rt signal frames. No SA_SIGINFO signals will have the siginfo_t just not filled out with SI_NOINFO code. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/register-dump.h (register_dump): Take the above change into account. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/sigcontextinfo.h (rt_signal_frame): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/getsysstats.c: New file.
1999-07-31Update.Ulrich Drepper1-11/+27
1999-07-31 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * string/bits/string2.h (__strcpy_small): Fix a typo.
1999-07-27Update.Ulrich Drepper1-2/+2
1999-07-25 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz> * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv8/Makefile: -mv8 is deprecated, use -mcpu=v8. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/sparcv9/Makefile: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/Makefile: Make %g7 register available for libc's private use (as assembly routine clobber it anyway). 1999-07-26 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * README.template (configurations): The crypt add-on has a new ftp site. * manual/install.texi (Installation): Likewise.
1999-07-09Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+17
1999-07-09 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * hesiod/Versions [GLIBC_2.2]: Add _nss_hesiod_initgroups. * hesiod/hesiod-grp.c: Add initgroups support. Patch by Nalin Dahyabhai <nsdahya1@pobox.com>.
1999-06-06Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+1
1999-06-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * malloc/malloc.c: Introduce local variable __libc_getpagesize to avoid multiple calls to getpagesize() which might be a syscall. 1999-06-06 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> * stdio-common/tstscanf.c (main): Test the half-word format "%hd". 1999-06-06 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/install.texi (Running make install): Correct typo in dynamic linker invocation. 1999-06-05 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> * sysdeps/arm/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_load_address): Fix problems with GOT addressing. 1999-06-05 Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> * malloc/malloc.c (check_action): Change into bitmap so that both diagnostic and abort can be requested by setting it to 3. (mALLOC_SET_STATe): Disable malloc checking if necessary.
1999-05-27Regenerated: /usr/bin/perl scripts/gen-FAQ.pl FAQ.inUlrich Drepper1-1/+3
1999-05-22Regenerated: /usr/bin/perl scripts/gen-FAQ.pl FAQ.inUlrich Drepper1-0/+2
1999-05-15Update.Ulrich Drepper1-17/+17
* stdlib/strtol.c: Optimize inner loop of long long versions.
1999-05-04Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+13
* elf/dl-load.c (expand_dynamic_string_token): Rewrite to loose st variable.
1999-04-29Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+12
* resolv/inet_addr.c (inet_aton): Optimize switch statement away.
1999-04-29Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+2
1999-04-28 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * nss/digits_dots.c: Use inet_aton to parse IPv4 numbers. This allows e.g. gethostbyname to accept "10.1234". Reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@long.yar.ru> [PR libc/1096]. * nss/test-netdb.c (test_hosts): Add test for gethostbyname and non quad IPv4 numbers. loaded shared object with all loaded objects. Initialize l_ino
1999-04-28Update.Ulrich Drepper1-4/+3
* malloc/malloc.c (rEALLOc): Only free memory for size 0 if oldmem is != NULL. 1999-04-28 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * malloc/malloc.c (REALLOC_ZERO_BYTES_FREES): Define it to follow ISO C9x and Unix98. 1999-04-28 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
1999-04-10Change Perl <-> db2 answer.Ulrich Drepper1-10/+4
1999-04-081999-04-01 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>Andreas Schwab1-2/+2
* sunrpc/Versions: Add new xdr functions to GLIBC_2.1.1 * sunrpc/xdr.c: Add xdr_hyper, xdr_u_hyper, xdr_longlong_t and xdr_u_longlong_t. Based on patch from Dan Shechter <damageboy@isdn.net.il>. * sunrpc/xdr_intXX_t.c: Implement xdr_int64_t, xdr_uint64_t * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Add prototypes for new xdr functions. * nis/nis_lookup.c (nis_lookup): Don't overwrite RPC error code.
1999-03-22* configure.in: Also look in $PATH when searching for Andreas Schwab1-2/+3
install-info. Remove autoconf bug workaround and require autoconf 2.13. Mon Mar 22 15:48:06 1999 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * configure.in: Also look in $PATH when searching for install-info. Remove autoconf bug workaround and require autoconf 2.13.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+6
1999-03-08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * locales/ru_RU (mon): Fix March and May month name translations. Reported by Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy@td.lpi.ac.ru>.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper1-4/+5
1999-03-05 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * manual/llio.texi (Open-time Flags): Clarify that O_SHLOCK and O_EXLOCK are BSD extensions. Reported by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de> [PR libc/985].
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper1-7/+18
1999-03-08 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * manual/signal.texi (Termination in Handler): Correct example. Install default handler before reraising the signal. Patch by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.
1999-03-08Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+15
1999-03-02 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> * Makerules (LD_FLAGS-c.so): Add -u __register_frame to force the backward compatibility EH functions to be linked when using gcc-2.8.1. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>.
1999-03-08Fix typo.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+1
1999-03-01Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+9
1999-03-01 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/i386/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Rename field uc_links to uc_link which is the right name according to Unix98. Reported by Craig Metz [PR libc/1001]. * sysdeps/arm/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/mips/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/sys/ucontext.h (ucontext): Likewise.
1999-02-27Regenerated: /usr/unsupported/bin/perl scripts/gen-FAQ.pl FAQ.inUlrich Drepper1-0/+20
1999-02-11Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+44
1999-02-07Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+2
1999-02-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * Versions.def: Add versions for ld.so. * csu/Versions: Remove __libc_stack_end here. * elf/Versions: Split libc definitions in libc and ld.so definitions. * elf/Makefile (ld-map): Change to ld.so.map. * scripts/versions.awk: Recognize dot in library names. * ctype/ctype.h: Remove definitions of __tolower and __toupper. Don't use __tolower and __toupper in inline functions. Add optimizing macros for tolower and toupper. * ctype/ctype-extn.c (_tolower): Don't use __tolower. (_toupper): Don't use __toupper. * ctype/ctype.c (tolower): Don't use __tolower. (toupper): Don't use toupper. * nscd/cache.c (prune_cache): Correct printing of debugging messages. * resolv/Versions (libresolv): Export __ns_name_unpack and __ns_name_ntop. * resolv/res_comp.c: Rename ns_name_unpack to __ns_name_unpack and make it global. Change all users. Similar for ns_name_ntop. * resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Don't use dn_expand when extracting in user-provided buffer. Use __ns_name_unpack and __ns_name_ntop directly to detect too small buffer. * stdio-common/Makefile (tests): Add scanf12. * stdio-common/scanf12.c: New file. * stdio-common/scanf12.input: New file. * stdio-common/vfscanf.c (__vfscanf): Handle +/- at beginning of floating-point correctly if the number is invalid. * stdio-common/vfscanf.c: Don't use non-reentrant multibyte conversion * stdio-common/printf_fphex.c: Likewise. * stdio-common/vfprintf.c: Likewise. See ChangeLog.9 for earlier changes.
1999-02-04Update.glibc-2.1cvs/glibc-2_1Ulrich Drepper1-7/+6
1999-02-04 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * stdlib/strtoll.c: Add alias __strtoq_internal. * stdlib/strtoull.c: Add alias __strtouq_internal. * wcsmbs/mbrtowc.c: Correct logic testing for converted NUL character. Patch by Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>.
1999-02-02Update.Ulrich Drepper1-19/+21
1999-02-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/reboot.c: Make sure first parameter is correctly passed to the kernel even on 64bit platforms. Patch by Bruce Elliott <bde@nwlink.com>. * localedata/locales/it_CH: New file. Contributed by Giacomo Amabile Catenazzi <gcatenaz@g26.ethz.ch>.
1999-01-29Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+14
1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/wordsize-32/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C, UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Remove casts, they must be integer constants. Use ## directly instead of __CONCAT so that the suffix string is not expanded as a macro. * sysdeps/wordsize-64/stdint.h (INT8_C, INT16_C, INT32_C, INT64_C, UINT8_C, UINT16_C, UINT32_C, UINT64_C): Likewise. (INT64_MIN, INT64_MAX, UINT64_MAX, INT_LEAST64_MIN, INT_LEAST64_MAX, UINT_LEAST64_MAX, INT_FAST16_MIN, INT_FAST32_MIN, INT_FAST64_MIN, INT_FAST16_MAX, INT_FAST32_MAX, INT_FAST64_MAX, UINT_FAST16_MAX, UINT_FAST32_MAX, UINT_FAST64_MAX, INTMAX_MIN, INTMAX_MAX, UINTMAX_MAX): Define as long constants, not long long. 1999-01-28 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * locale/mb_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Correct return type to size_t. * locale/broken_cur_max.c (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise. * stdlib/stdlib.h (__ctype_get_mb_cur_max): Likewise. 1999-01-27 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Deleted.
1999-01-27Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+2
* locale/programs/locale-spec.c (locale_special): Take care of possible trigraph sequence. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>.
1999-01-24Update.Ulrich Drepper1-9/+9
1999-01-24 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * ctype/ctype.c (toupper): Correct variable names from lat change. (tolower): Likewise.
1999-01-21Update.Ulrich Drepper1-10/+10
1999-01-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/dl-close.c: Rewrite the way adding to the global scope works to handle error cases better than the last change. The l_global flag is now only set when the object is actually counted in the global scope list. * elf/dl-deps.c: Likewise. * elf/dl-open.c: Likewise.
1999-01-20Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+28
* iconvdata/Makefile (modules): Add SAMI-WS2 and ISO-IR-197. * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add entries for above charsets. * iconvdata/iso-ir-197.c: New file. * iconvdata/same-ws2.c: New file.
1999-01-20Update.Ulrich Drepper1-6/+8
1999-01-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/vfork.c: Once again use generic version.
1998-12-16Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+20
1998-12-16 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de> * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Revert patch from 1998-12-14, partly revert patch from 1998-12-01.