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The GNU C Library version 2.16 is now available.

Item posted by Carlos O'Donell <codonell> on Sat 30 Jun 2012 08:13:41 PM UTC.

The GNU C Library
=================

The GNU C Library version 2.16 is now available.

The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU systems
and most systems with the Linux kernel.

The GNU C Library is primarily designed to be a portable
and high performance C library.  It follows all relevant
standards including ISO C99 and POSIX.1-2008.  It is also
internationalized and has one of the most complete
internationalization interfaces known.

The GNU C Library webpage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/

Packages for the 2.16 release may be downloaded from:
        http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libc/
        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/

The mirror list is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

NEWS for version 2.16
=====================


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  configuring glibc with:
        BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
  Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
  Implemented by H.J. Lu.
 


  + define static_assert

  + do not declare gets

  + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11

  + aligned_alloc.  NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
    to not be a multiple of the alignment.  This is a moronic requirement
    in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
    implementation.

  + timespec_get added

  + uchar.h support added

  + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added

  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.



  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

  headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
  version 2.14.  This option will be removed at some time in the future
  after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
  existing applications.

  Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
  before 2.6.

  the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel.  The header also
  defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.


  into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
  So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
  provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
  Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.


  and Will Schmidt.


  without a previously built glibc.

  Chris Metcalf from Tilera.

  now supported for ARM processors.

  as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
  /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.


  platform-specific functionality.  PowerPC added the first instance with a
  function to provide time base register access.  Contributed by Tulio
  Magno Quites Machado Filho.

  what x86-64 configurations install.  These same header files can be used
  for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
  Contributed by H.J. Lu.

  conducted by Joseph Myers.  Significant progress was made on many math
  library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
  Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
  patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.

  will continue to be installed.  Users should obtain their timezone data from
  their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
  <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.

Contributors
============

This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
changes or bug reports.  These include:

Adhemerval Zanella
Allan McRae
Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Krebbel
Andreas Schwab
Antoine Balestrat
Anton Blanchard
Aurelien Jarno
Carlos O'Donell
Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
Chandan Kumar
Chris Demetriou
Chris Leonard
Chris Metcalf
Chung-Lin Tang
Cyril Hrubis
David S. Miller
Dwayne Grant McConnell
Fabrice Bauzac
H.J. Lu
Ian Wienand
Jakub Jelinek
Jan Kratochvil
Jeff Law
Jim Meyering
Joseph Myers
Kai Tietz
Kaz Kojima
Kees Cook
Liubov Dmitrieva
Marek Polacek
Markus Trippelsdorf
Maxim Kuvyrkov
Michael Matz
Mike Frysinger
Nick Bowler
Nicolas Boulenguez
Nix
Paul Bolle
Paul Eggert
Paul Pluzhnikov
Petr Baudis
Pino Toscano
Rafe Kettler
Rayson Ho
Richard Henderson
Robert Millan
Roland Mc Grath
Roland McGrath
Ryan S. Arnold
Samuel Thibault
Serkan Kaba
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Simon Josefsson
Stanislav Brabec
Stephen Compall
Thomas Schwinge
Tom de Vries
Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
Ulrich Drepper
Will Schmidt

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