From 53de960d6f12480a041b7b8cbf65cd1d3f3f9b23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:51:00 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] release notes for 0.9.4 --- WHATSNEW | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index 2958c623..652176d8 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -677,3 +677,32 @@ arm-specific bug fixes: build system: - only use expensive -ffloat-store cflag on archs/compilers that need it - make musl-gcc wrapper support -lgcc (mainly for self-hosting) + + + +0.9.4 release notes + +new features: +- blowfish crypt +- dynamic linking on mips +- arm hard float support +- BSD fgetln function in stdio +- minor header improvements for compatibility +- support for CROSS_COMPILE variable to configure +- legacy significand function +- better support for SUSv3-targeted programs + +performance: +- assembly (string ops based) memcpy for i386 and x86_64 +- reduce printf overhead + +bug fixes: +- failure of strtod, etc. to process extremely long strings correctly +- read overrun in wcsstr for short needles +- various major mips issues that prevented most software from working +- erroneous floating point exception behavior in i386/x86_64 exp asm +- crashes on null arguments to legacy err.h functions +- various header file/type issues +- extremely rare/obscure race condition with robust mutexes +- crypt now never returns null (most programs don't check, then crash) +- missing xattr remove functions -- 2.20.1