| 0.5.0 - initial release |
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| 0.5.9 - signal ABI bugfix, various cleanup and fixes: |
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| sigset_t was wrongly defined as 1024 bytes instead of 1024 bits, |
| breaking the intended ABI compatibility with the LSB/glibc sigaction |
| structure. users should upgrade immediately and rebuild any libraries |
| or object files that might be using the incorrect definitions. |
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| improved security against DoS with tcb shadow passwords by checking |
| that the file opened was really an ordinary file. |
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| fixed a bug in the implementation of atomic ops that could have |
| allowed the compiler to incorrectly reorder them (in practice, gcc |
| with the default settings on i386 was not reordering them). |
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| greatly improved conformance to the C and POSIX standards regarding |
| what the standard header files make visible. _POSIX_C_SOURCE is now |
| needed to get POSIX functions in standard C headers, and _XOPEN_SOURCE |
| or _GNU_SOURCE are required to get XSI interfaces or GNU extensions, |
| respectively. |
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| many internal improvements have been made to the syscall-related code |
| in preparation for porting to x86_64 and other archs. |
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| 0.6.0 - x86_64 port, various important bugs fixed |
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| new x86_64 (amd64) architecture port, contributed by Nicholas J. Kain, |
| along with PORTING guide. source tree layout and build system have |
| been improved to accommodate further ports. |
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| various bugs that were introduced while making the headers respect C |
| and POSIX namespace standards have been fixed. conformance to the |
| standards has been improved. |
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| fixed an inefficiency in qsort that triggered a bug (occasionaly |
| internal compiler error) in some versions of gcc. |
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| fixed a major bug in the printf %n specifier that prevented it from |
| working and caused memory corruption. |
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| 0.7.0 - major improvements to posix conformance and completeness |
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| implemented posix shared memory and semaphore interfaces. |
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| implemented all remaining required pthread and clock interfaces. |
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| major fixes to signal semantics. |
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| greatly improved temporary file name generation for safety against |
| denial of service due to intentional name collisions. |
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| added syscall wrappers for the linux inotify interface. |
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| malloc(0) now returns a non-null pointer. |
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| fixed printf %n specifier (again), pthread_once (it was always |
| hanging), and non-default-type mutex behavior. |
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| added ucontext/sigcontext support in headers to facilitate building |
| libgcc with dwarf2 unwind support, and possibly other low-level tools. |
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| improved musl-gcc compiler wrapper. |
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| implemented many small missing functions here and there, minor header |
| fixes, etc. |
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| 0.7.1 - improvements to completeness, bug fixes |
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| implemented flockfile, wprintf, and robust mutex functions. |
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| fixed stack corruption bug in times(), minor header bugs, and some |
| error return value bugs in thread interfaces. |
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| 0.7.5 - new features, major optimization, and robustness |
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| implemented POSIX timers. |
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| optimized and simplified many thread-related functions. |
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| eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation. (almost all |
| existing implementations, including glibc, have these leaks.) |
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| overhauled stdio implementation to take advantage of readv/writev for |
| reduced syscall load, and improved stdio's handling of error status. |
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| added syscall header and interface for applications to use and |
| greatly simplified internal system for making syscalls. |
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| strangthened tmpnam/tempnam/tmpfile filename generation and made the |
| straight C functions not depend on POSIX symbols. |
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| fixed pthread cancellation ABI on i386 to match the LSB/glibc ABI |
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| better double-free handling in malloc |
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| various minor bug fixes |
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| 0.7.6 - major bug fixes |
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| fixed rare but serious under-allocation bug in malloc. |
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| fixed signedness bug in strchr that prevented finding high bytes. |
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| fixed serious parsing bugs in strtold. |
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| fixed statvfs syscall (it was always failing with EINVAL). |
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| fixed race condition in set*id() functions with threads (possible |
| deadlock). further audit still needed though. |
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| fseek no longer sets the stream error flag on failed seeks (this was |
| wrong and broke some programs, notably GNU m4). |
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| nl_langinfo is no longer a dummy function. (the functionality was |
| previously implemented but accidentally left unused). |
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| various small fixes have been made to the implementations and |
| prototypes for nonstandard and obsolete functions |
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| 0.7.7 - more bug fixes and program-compatibility improvements |
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| fixed floating point formatting and rounding bugs in printf. |
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| fixed broken %N$ positional argument specifiers in printf. |
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| fixed misaligned read/overread bug in strchr which could lead to |
| crashes scanning tiny strings at the end of a page when the next page |
| is not readable, or on archs (not yet supported) that forbid |
| misaligned reads. |
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| fixed breakage of statvfs on x86_64 |
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| fixed crash in getmntent_r |
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| fixed bug in POSIX timers created with NULL sigevent argument |
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| improved semaphore performance, and sem_wait is now interruptable by |
| signals, as required by POSIX. |
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| added many compatibility and system-level interfaces, increasing the |
| proportion of busybox that works with musl. |
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| 0.7.8 - more bug fixes and compatibility improvements |
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| fixed problems with ipv6 dns and address printing code that made ipv6 |
| support practically unusable, and some other getaddrinfo bugs. |
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| fixed broken sendmsg/recvmsg functions on x86_64 (caused by incorrect |
| msghdr structure). |
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| fixed broken sigsetjmp asm on x86_64. |
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| worked around a problem with input buffering on terminals reblocking |
| after getting a blank line, due to a bug in the linux readv syscall. |
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| various improvements to the "rsyscall" system used to implement |
| threaded setuid, setgid, etc. |
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| exiting/cancelling the a timer handler thread no longer kills the |
| timer. |
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| fixed incorrect trailing zeros on some %g conversions in printf. |
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| fixed buggy byte-swapping functions and moved them to inlines in |
| byteswap.h. |
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| many small improvements to header/application compatibility, support |
| for nonstandard macros, etc. |
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| 0.7.9 release notes |
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| new pthread cancellation implementation: |
| - safe against resource-leak/side-effect-leak race conditions |
| - safe against interruption by signal handlers |
| - reduced bloat in all cancellable functions |
| - reduced bloat for blocking cancellation |
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| new interfaces implemented: |
| - realpath (limited functionality) |
| - wordexp (limited functionality) |
| - flock (nonstandard) |
| - forkpty (nonstandard) |
| - posix_fadvise |
| - posix_fallocate |
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| general bug fixes: |
| - syslog function failure to communicate with syslogd |
| - bug in siginfo_t definition if wait.h was included before signal.h |
| - incorrect struct definitions for most of sysv ipc |
| - pthread_exit/cancel on timer handler wrongly destroying the timer |
| - linux dup2 ebusy workaround |
| - obscure issues in non-threaded programs using some pthread functions |
| - getopt_long allowed mismatch in last char of option name |
| - incorrect parsing of obscure ip address forms |
| - initgroups not working reliably (uninitialized var) |
| - shadow pass treating empty expiry field as pass-expired-in-1970 |
| - bogus longjmp if pthread_exit was called from cancellation handlers |
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| x86_64-specific bug fixes: |
| - fcntl file locking |
| - thread stack alignment |
| - broken select timeouts due to incorrect timeval definition |
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| 0.7.10 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - ipv6 numeric string parsing |
| - eventfd syscall wrappers |
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| optimizations: |
| - new qsort implementation using the smoothsort algorithm |
| - much smaller/faster sigset_t handling functions |
| - lowered spin count before futex wait in synchronization functions |
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| general bug fixes: |
| - incorrect floating point round-to-even behavior in printf |
| - major bugs in pthread barrier implementation |
| - off-by-one error in scanf %n results |
| - scanf failure to report EOF when scanning for literal text |
| - minor missing/incorrect prototype issues |
| - dependency on undefined call order in fclose |
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| compiler issue workarounds: |
| - incorrect inlining of variadic functions on recent gcc versions |
| - pcc preprocessor bug with recursive macro expansion |
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| 0.7.11 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - integrated dynamic linker |
| - dynamic loading (dlopen/dlsym) (for dynamic-linked programs only) |
| - XSI search.h API |
| - POSIX message queues |
| - POSIX spawn interfaces |
| - BSD pseudo-random number generator API (random/srandom/initstate/etc.) |
| - floating point environment (limited usefulness due to gcc bugs) |
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| general bug fixes: |
| - possible crashes with wordexp due to uninitialized variable |
| - race condition in pthread_kill (also present and unfixed in glibc/nptl) |
| - pthread exit destructors called too late |
| - dangerous unbounded vla in glob |
| - brk/sbrk legacy functions mismatching legacy semantics |
| - wcsncpy dest buffer overflow |
| - strncat and wcsncat possible overflows due to double-termination |
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| 0.7.12 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - support for textrels in shared objects |
| - rpath support in dynamic linker |
| - stdio_ext.h functions (for better gnu software compatibility) |
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| bug fixes: |
| - some compilers miscompiling dlopen due to misuse of longjmp |
| - safe handling of invalid long-double bit patterns (affects printf) |
| - workaround for bugs in linux mprotect syscall |
| - thread-safety for random() functions |
| - various minor issues |
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| 0.8.0 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - chinese and japanese legacy charset support in iconv |
| - zero-syscall clock_gettime support (dynamic-linked x86_64 only) |
| - futex-based locking for stdio (previously used spinlocks) |
| - LD_PRELOAD and RTLD_NEXT support in dynamic linker |
| - strptime (mostly working but incomplete) |
| - posix aio (mostly working but not entirely conformant) |
| - memory streams (fmemopen, open_memstream, ...) |
| - stub/dummy implementations for various useless legacy functions |
| - if_nameindex |
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| security hardening: |
| - setuid, etc. should not longer be able to "partially fail" with threads |
| - ensure suid programs start with fd 0,1,2 open |
| - improved openpty/forkpty failure checks |
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| threads/synchronization bug fixes: |
| - dangerous spurious wakeup in pthread_join lead to early return |
| - race condition enabling async cancellation (delayed/lost cancellation) |
| - destruction/unmapping race conditions in semaphores, mutexes, rwlocks |
| - recursive rwlock_rdlock deadlock when a writer is waiting |
| - race condition in sigqueue with fork |
| - timer expiration thread exit wasn't running dtors |
| - timer threads weren't blocking signals |
| - close was wrongly cancellable after succeeding on some devices |
| - robust mutex list was not reset on fork |
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| general bug fixes: |
| - incorrect logic in fread (spurious blocking; crash on write-only files) |
| - many corner cases and overflow cases for strtol-family functions |
| - various printf integer formatting issues with flags/width/precision |
| - incorrect iconv return value on failure |
| - broken FD_* macros on 64-bit targets |
| - clock function returning wrong value (real time not cpu time) |
| - siglongjmp signal mask clobbering (off-by-one pointer error) |
| - dynamic linker weak symbol resolution issues |
| - fdopendir failure to set errno |
| - various minor header fixes |
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| 0.8.1 release notes |
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| bug fixes: |
| - mismatching prototypes caused build failure on 64-bit |
| - other minor prototype errors in the headers have been fixed |
| - various other small omissions fixed |
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| 0.8.2 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - ptrace syscall support |
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| bug fixes: |
| - const error (only a warning with many compilers) in lio_listio |
| - minor portability fixes aimed at supporting new arch targets |
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| 0.8.3 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - arm port (experimental) |
| - better musl-gcc wrapper script for building against musl |
| - added clone system call |
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| bug fixes: |
| - numerous header file typos, copy/paste errors, omissions |
| - statfs and statvfs ABI are now LSB-conformant (and actually work) |
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| 0.8.4 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - arm dynamic linker support |
| - process-shared pthread barriers now work |
| - efficient futex-requeue-based cond var broadcast |
| - more optional cancellation points are now cancellable |
| - printf accepts null pointers with %s, prints as "(null)" |
| - recursive mutexes are now fully reentrant |
| - __cxa_atexit support |
| - real vfork |
| - dynamic linker now gold-compatible |
| - prlimit syscall |
| - support for large limits with setrlimit/getrlimit (even on 32-bit) |
| - glob now supports GLOB_PERIOD option (GNU extension) |
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| bug fixes: |
| - many serious issues in condition variables |
| - rwlock failure-to-wake deadlock issues |
| - various small header files bugs/omissions |
| - wrong failure return for pthread_create |
| - path handling issues on execvp |
| - lock count corruption with robust recursive mutexes on owner death |
| - integer overflows in atoi, etc. reading most-negative value |
| - spurious mremaps on every realloc of large memory chunks |
| - pthread cancellation failure in single-threaded programs |
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| security: |
| - avoid fd_set overflow in dns lookups |
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| 0.8.5 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - stdio operations are now cancellable (only when low-level io happens) |
| - global ctor/dtor support in main program start code and shared libs |
| - dynamic linker support for PIE executables (but missing startup code) |
| - vfork support on x86_64 |
| - complete set of locale_t functions (all ignore the locale argument) |
| - provide define float_t and double_t in math.h |
| - lighter/faster cancellation cleanup handler register/unregister |
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| bug fixes: |
| - gcc wrapper now supports -shared, -nostdlib, -nostartfiles |
| - removed one wrongly-classified character from iswspace set (zwsp) |
| - fixed crashes in dns lookup on some errors, e.g. resolv.conf missing |
| - "make install" no longer tries to build shared libc if disabled |
| - ptrace argument handling bugs fixed |
| - work around visibility-hidden bugs in gcc 3.x |
| - fix thread-pointer-loss issue when it's initialized in signal handlers |
| - various minor typo/misc fixes in headers |
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| compatibility: |
| - glob behaves more like traditional implementations w.r.t. GLOB_MARK |
| - added legacy futimes, lutimes functions |
| - more compatibility macros in sys/param.h (nonstandard header) |
| - setfs[ug]id syscall wrappers (linux specific) |
| - fgetpwent function (nonstandard) |
| - utmp.h matches traditional version more closely |
| - caddr_t now matches glibc type (void * instead of long) |
| - dummy (always-fail) dlopen and dlsym functions for static linked programs |
| - [efg]cvt functions (previously posix, removed from standard) |
| - get_current_dir_name function (nonstandard) |
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| 0.8.6 release notes |
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| bug fixes: |
| - fix crash in dns lookups for all static-linked, non-threaded programs |
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| 0.8.7 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - c++ support with g++'s libstdc++ |
| - c99 math library (float, long double, complex, etc.) |
| - numerous wchar_t functions |
| - a64l, l64a functions |
| - getdate function |
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| compatibility: |
| - c89 compatibility in math.h |
| - syscall.h alias for sys/syscall.h |
| - memory.h alias for string.h |
| - getcwd supports null buffer argument (auto-allocation) |
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| bug fixes: |
| - major fenv (floating point environment) fixes and optimizations |
| - strptime mishandling of day/month names |
| - strtoull wrongly rejecting the highest 16 possible values as overflow |
| - math.h constant expression fixes for INFINITY/NAN/etc. |
| - scanf mishandling of "0" with "%x" |
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| 0.8.8 release notes |
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| new feature: |
| - major math correctness and performance improvements |
| - many math functions implemented in asm for i386 |
| - some math functions (mostly long double) in asm for x86_64 |
| - new floating point parser/converter with correct rounding |
| - implement wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold |
| - new scanf implementation - cleaner, faster, more correct |
| - minimal/incomplete strfmon implementation |
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| compatibility: |
| - header fixes for c++ |
| - regex code resync with TRE; support common regex extensions |
| - support for compiling apps with gcc's -funsigned-char |
| - sysconf now returns dynamic limits for open files, processes |
| - give dlerror proper error status stickiness |
| - make alloca work even with -fno-builtin |
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| critical security fixes: |
| - stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf on unbuffered files |
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| other bug fixes: |
| - rare gcc register allocation (miscompilation) bug in syscall wrappers |
| - printf was rejecting the valid (but redundant) %lf format specifier |
| - fixed big data bloat (missing const) in math functions |
| - many math fixes related to floating point exceptions and rounding |
| - corrected DECIMAL_DIG definitions |
| - tgammal was wrongly setting global signgam |
| - crash in wordfree with uninitialized we_offs |
| - fix wordexp not null-initializing the we_offs initial slots |
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| 0.8.9 release notes |
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| bug fixes: |
| - major breakage in strtol and family: failure to accept leading spaces |
| - incorrect name for MATH_ERREXCEPT in math.h |
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| compatibility: |
| - prototypes for a few additional nonstandard functions |
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| 0.8.10 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - correct over/underflow detection (ERANGE setting) for strtod |
| - new musl-gcc wrapper, specfile based, faster and more robust |
| - meaningful return strings for dlerror |
| - new iswalpha, iswpunct, and wcwidth; sync'd to Unicode 6.1 |
| - towupper/towlower sync'd with Unicode 6.1 |
| - new futex-based libc-internal locks instead of spinlocks |
| - experimental stack protector support (minimal; no random canary) |
| - experimental gdb shared library tracking support |
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| compatibility: |
| - getusershell family functions |
| - getresuid and getresgid syscall wrappers |
| - byte swapping macros in endian.h |
| - getdtablesize was wrongly declared in unistd.h for _XOPEN_SOURCE |
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| bug fixes: |
| - iconv_open wrongly rejecting most dest charsets (broken in 0.8.0) |
| - sysconf failure when correct value is -1 (broken in 0.8.8) |
| - scanf and strtod family functions overreading past NAN (4 bytes vs 3) |
| - scanf and strtod wrongly treating "0.00000000001", etc. as 0 |
| - many bugs in towupper/towlower (never seriously tested before) |
| - int8_t definition was wrong when gcc -funsigned-char was used |
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| 0.9.0 release notes |
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| license change: MIT |
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| new features: |
| - configure script, improved build system |
| - full stack protector support |
| - PIE support on x86 and x86_64 |
| - new O(1) space, O(nm) time implementation of fnmatch |
| - improved support for sse2 floating point mode on x86 |
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| compatibility: |
| - added linux unshare syscall |
| - exp10/pow10 function |
| - sqrtl support on arm (previously missing) |
| - removed minimal linux/*.h headers that could conflict with real ones |
| - support for _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE (mapped to standard fcns with #define) |
| - better c89 compatibility in headers |
| - stub versions of sched_* functions (previously missing) |
| - pthread stacks no longer executable (compat with hardened kernels) |
| - new ar.h and lastlog.h (legacy junk) |
| - various other header improvements |
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| optimization: |
| - additional x86_64 math asm |
| - better formula for acos use in i386 asm |
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| bug fixes: |
| - large (up to a few %) errors in strtod for certain values due to bug |
| - mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs were completely broken (bad exit logic) |
| - wide printf %.0s could fail due to uninitialized variable |
| - missing dlerror strings for dlsym in some cases |
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| 0.9.1 release notes |
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| new features: |
| - dynamic linker can be used as a program to explicitly load/run executables |
| - ldd command, usable by making a symlink to the dynamic linker named ldd |
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| bug fixes: |
| - major bugs in POSIX BRE parsing inherited from TRE regex code |
| - character matching bug in regex on ARM: WCHAR_MAX was assumed to be signed |
| - various obscure fixes related to signals and pthread cancellation |
| - remquot subnormal remainder bug |
| - buggy macros in (nonstandard) sys/param.h |
| - major bug in pthread barriers on x86_64 (out of bounds write) |
| - utimes (legacy) function was making wrong syscall (utime instead of utimes) |
| - avoid using "old" syscalls that don't exist on arm eabi linux |
| - broken strrchr(str, 0) |
| - broken mbsinit(0) |
| - broken wcsncmp |
| - syntax error in nextafter macro in tgmath.h |
| - missing support for -pie in musl-gcc wrapper |
| - abort could wrongly fail to terminate the program in some cases |
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| compatibility: |
| - increase default thread stack size to 80k |
| - support _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro |
| - support _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE feature test macro (merely exposes alt names) |
| - lots of legacy-compatibility improvements in headers |
| - various minor GNU extension functions |
| - sysconf reporting number of available CPUs/cores |
| - various LSB/glibc ABI interfaces aimed at compatibility with some binaries |
| - use fistpll asm mnemonic instead of fistpq for compat with clang |
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| 0.9.2 release notes |
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| bug fixes: |
| - pointer overflow in printf (crash on 32bit userspace, 64bit kernel) |
| - printf %ls over-read bug |
| - strtod failure to read -0x as negative zero |
| - flush stdio after dtors, not before |
| - wrong file position for buffered input streams on exit |
| - popen was broken when stdin/out were already closed |
| - broken wcwidth tables (missing many characters) |
| - fwrite: wrong return value of partial/failed write |
| - broken utf-16 conversions |
| - bad buffer length check in getlogin_r |
| - bad perror("") behavior; did not match perror(0) |
| - broken sysinfo syscall/structure |
| - stdint.h const macro signedness bugs |
| - broken include guards in some headers |
| - bogus localeconv values |
| - cancellation-safety for popen and pclose |
| - fma corner cases wrong on i386 |
| - fcntl F_GETOWN errno missing on failure. |
| - char signedness bug in dynamic linker broke dlopen on arm |
| - mprotect failure in dynamic linker caused crash instead of error |
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| build system: |
| - configure check to work around hacked-up gcc versions |
| - test for old binutils that can't support musl dynamic linker |
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| compatibility: |
| - make _GNU_SOURCE imply _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE |
| - syscall wrapper for lots of nonstandard and/or legacy linux syscalls |
| - versionsort stub |
| - timegm function (inverse of gmtime) |
| - various minor header tweaks |
| - make __freading/__fwriting semantics match traditional ones |
| - added gnulib-compatibility stdio interfaces |
| - added pthread_attr_setstack interface |
| - make strerror_r return partial string when buffer is too small |
| - duplocale should accept LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE |
| - align ptsname_r to upcoming posix requirements |
| - support invalid ld80 bit patterns as extra nans. |