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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>2012-06-30 08:27:06 -0700
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>2012-06-30 08:27:06 -0700
commitee9247c38a8def24a59eb5cfb7196a98bef8cfdc (patch)
treebb0aaf965bb11cb3bf997bbfd7ec4ca4242645ad
parent4648c3819ed888b54a779bcebd32ebe97dee0c47 (diff)
Update NEWS and README.glibc-2.16
Final update for 2.16 release.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--NEWS17
-rw-r--r--README8
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e59ed6c9dc..75dea027a4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-06-30 Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
+
+ * NEWS: Update copyright. Remove last-updated date.
+ Mention math library bug fixes and timezone data changes.
+ * README: Mention GNU/Hurd, x32, and HPPA support status.
+
2012-06-28 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Sort alphabetically by last name.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a9500faeb6..a90d95599d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2012-1-27
-Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
@@ -123,6 +123,17 @@ Version 2.16
what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
Contributed by H.J. Lu.
+
+* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
+ 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.
+
+* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
+ 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/>.
Version 2.15
@@ -2087,7 +2098,7 @@ Version 1.04
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright information:
-Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
diff --git a/README b/README
index a479b550f4..1e2e3ba18a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
-GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu.
+GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu. The current
+GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be
+incorporated into an official GNU C Library release.
When working with Linux kernels, the GNU C Library version from
version 2.4 on is intended primarily for use with Linux kernel version
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ installed for the pthread library to work correctly.
The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
- x86_64-*-linux-gnu
+ x86_64-*-linux-gnu Can build either x86_64 or x32
powerpc-*-linux-gnu Hardware floating point required
powerpc64-*-linux-gnu
s390-*-linux-gnu
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ Currently these configurations have code in the `ports' add-on:
alpha*-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
am33*-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional
arm-*-linux-gnueabi Requires Linux 2.6.16-rc1 or newer for NPTL
- hppa-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
+ hppa-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional without patches.
ia64-*-linux-gnu
m68k-*-linux-gnu
mips-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.12 or newer for NPTL