From e6dcebd5efa2d390f0a24dc11444024e9fd1990c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:01:30 -0500 Subject: update readme and release notes for 0.9.8 --- WHATSNEW | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index b0c319af..184f8eef 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -780,3 +780,30 @@ bug fixes: - getaddrinfo failure with port "0" - dirname handling of trailing slash - vfork race in posix_spawn + + + +0.9.8 release notes + +new features: +- powerpc port +- dl_iterate_phdr interface +- added mips-specific syscalls +- thread priority scheduling +- C11 CMPLX macro in complex.h +- x86 port io functions in sys/io.h + +compatibility: +- improved headers for trace/debugging/machine-access +- stub functions for unsupported thread-related functionality + +bug fixes: +- numerous math bugs (mostly exception flags and excess-precision issues) +- register clobber error in i386 vsyscall asm (did not affect most callers) +- various incorrect definitions in mips headers +- broken dlsym asm on mips +- empty prefix handling in configure script (--prefix="") +- ldso search path logic issues +- lock handling for stdio memory streams at exit time +- invalid SO_REUSEPORT definition in socket.h (not supported by Linux) +- broken redirection attempt to /dev/null in configure script -- cgit v1.2.1