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-rw-r--r--WHATSNEW4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index ddc5b6b4..9df22055 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@ success where other implementations can fail under resource exhaustion
or other corner-case conditions.
At this point, hundreds of packages have been successfully built
-against musl, either out-of-the-box or with minor patches to address
-portability errors. Testing has been conducted using three separate
-test frameworks and numerous additional standalone test cases to
-verify the correctness of the implementation.
+against musl - either out-of-the-box or with minor patches to address
+portability errors - ranging from low-level system utilities and
+network daemons to major gui applications. Testing has been conducted
+using three separate test frameworks and numerous additional
+standalone test cases to verify the correctness of the implementation.
Included with this package is a gcc wrapper script (musl-gcc) which
allows you to build musl-linked programs using an existing gcc 3.x or
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index f3db8ad4..b9ca2d5f 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -545,13 +545,15 @@ new features:
compatibility:
- added linux unshare syscall
-- exp10 function
+- 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
optimization:
- additional x86_64 math asm