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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.
1998-12-07Update.Ulrich Drepper1-2/+2
1998-12-07 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * SUPPORTED: Add en_AU.
1998-12-02Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+11
1998-12-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * elf/elf.h: Add R_MIPS_JALR and adjust R_MIPS_NUM appropriately. 1998-12-02 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * inet/Versions: Remove inet6_isipv4mapped. 1998-12-02 Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> * inet/in6_addr.c (inet6_isipv4mapped): Obsolete, deleted. 1998-11-30 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * manual/time.texi (Formatting Date and Time): Fix typo. 1998-11-30 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in: Only check for symlinks when configuring natively. Use autoconf macros instead of rolling our own. Handle defaulted prefix.
1998-12-01Update.Ulrich Drepper1-3/+2
1998-12-01 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * Makefile (postclean): Add sysd-sorted.
1998-12-01Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+10
1998-12-01 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de> * sunrpc/auth_des.c: Use new XDR int32 functions for integers. * sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Add IXDR INT32 functions. * sunrpc/rpc_hout.c: Remove (u_long) casts in defines to avoid conflicts with new solaris version. * sunrpc/rpc_main.c: Fix bug in generating Makefile name (malloc doesn't zero allocated memory). * sunrpc/rpc_svcout.c: Local variables now starts with a _ to avoid conflicts with xdr functions. Solves PR libc/877. * nis/rpcsvc/nis.x: Use always uint32_t. * nis/rpcsvc/nis.h: Likewise. * nis/rpcsvc/nis_object.x: Likewise. 1998-12-01 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * math/libm-test.c: Various cleanups. Patch by Zack Weinberg. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/setfpucw.c: Use correct type for parameter. Patch by Christian Gafton. * string/envz.h: Add prototype for envz_remove. Reported by Andreas Jaeger.
1998-11-30Mention stupid time zone name problem.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+15
1998-11-26Update.Ulrich Drepper1-4/+26
1998-11-26 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h (ELF_MACHINE_NO_PLT): New defined macro. (elf_machine_got_rel): Remove scope variable. Use scope from the map. Don't modify _dl_global_scope_end in the end. (__dl_runtime_resolv): Also use scope from the map. * sysdeps/mips/mips64/dl-machine.h: Likewise. * elf/dl-runtime.c: Don't define fixup and profile_fixup if ELF_MACHINE_NO_PLT is defined. * sysdeps/mips/sys/ucontext.h: New file. Patches by kaz Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>. 1998-11-26 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/generic/pselect.c (__pselect): Change interface, set/restore sigmask. * misc/sys/select.h: Change declaration according to Stevens' Unix Network Programming. * include/sys/select.h (__pselect): Likewise. Reported by <bwelling@anomaly.munge.com> [PR libc/872]. * include/fpu_control.h: New file, contains __setfpucw declaration. * sysdeps/generic/fpu_control.h: Remove __setfpucw declaration, it's an internal symbol. * sysdeps/alpha/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/arm/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/i386/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/m68k/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise. * sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/fpu/fpu_control.h: Likewise.
1998-11-25Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+27
1998-11-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * version.h (VERSION): Bump to 2.0.104. 1998-11-25 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl> * libio/bits/stdio.h (fread_unlocked): Add missing parentheses around parameter n. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * time/tzfile.c (__tzfile_read): Fix comment. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * Makerules (build-shlib): Pass -O1 down to linker to get optimized shared libraries. 1998-11-24 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * Makeconfig ($(common-objpfx)sysd-dirs): Cope with no Subdirs file. Strip "-" from inhibited subdir name. Combine into a single awk program. ($(common-objpfx)sysd-sorted): Fix sed command.
1998-11-23Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+8
1998-11-21 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/netinet/ip_fw.h: Removed. There are too many differences between the Linux 2.0 and 2.1 versions of this file and it's too difficult to convert all calls. The file should only be needed by the ipfw program which has to take care of the correct kernel version and include files. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Dist: Remove netinet/ip_fw.h. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile (sysdep_headers): Likewise.
1998-11-20Update.Ulrich Drepper1-50/+74
* version.h (VERSION): Bump to 2.0.103.
1998-11-08Update.Ulrich Drepper1-1/+8
1998-11-05 1998 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org> * libio/iofgets.c (_IO_fgets): Don't report error if something was read in and errno is set to EAGAIN. * libio/iofgets_u.c (fgets_unlocked): Likewise. 1998-11-05 Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/net/if_packet.h: Don't include kernel header; it defines too much. Provide a local definition of struct sockaddr_pkt and a comment advising against its use. 1998-11-06 1998 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * extra-lib.mk: Avoid empty include list. 1998-11-04 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> * extra-lib.mk: Add support for $(lib)-shared-only-routines. * elf/Makefile (libdl-routines): Add dlopenold only if doing versioning. (libdl-shared-only-routines): New variable. 1998-11-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> Don't invoke localtime_r or gmtime_r unless it's the GNU C library's localtime_r and gmtime_r; there are too many buggy implementations of localtime_r and gmtime_r out there, and it's not worth keeping track of all the different bugs. * time/mktime.c (__EXTENSIONS__): Remove. (<unistd.h>): No need to include. * time/strftime.c: Likewise. * time/mktime.c (_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS, HAVE_LOCALTIME_R): Remove. (my_mktime_localtime_r): Renamed from localtime_r; all uses changed. Base it on localtime unless _LIBC. * time/strftime.c (my_strftime_gmtime_r): Renamed from gmtime_r; all uses changed. (my_strftime_localtime_r): Renamed from localtime_r; all uses changed. Base them on localtime/gmtime if not _LIBC. 1998-11-07 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * sysdeps/generic/isastream.c: Always return 0 unless it is an invalid file descriptor. This makes this function actually usable. Proposed by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@phys.uva.nl>.
1998-10-25Regenerated: /usr/unsupported/bin/perl scripts/gen-FAQ.pl FAQ.inUlrich Drepper1-6/+15
1998-10-20Update.Ulrich Drepper1-0/+12
* math/tgmath.h: Make nested function calls work.
1998-09-29Update.Ulrich Drepper1-7/+6
1998-09-27 Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/bits/ipc.h: New file, use correct struct ipc_perm definition.
1998-09-23Update.Ulrich Drepper1-13/+14
1998-09-23 15:25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * libio/stdio.h: Define __need_getopt and include getopt.h to define getopt stuff. * posix/unistd.h: Likewise. * stdio/stdio.h: Likewise. * posix/getopt.h: Remove _GNU_SOURCE use. If __need_getopt is defined define only getopt and the variables. (CPPFLAGS): Add -DUSE_LIBDB1