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@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ Please send GNU C library bug reports to bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu. Version 1.10 +* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you + must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with + `-D_GNU_SOURCE'. + * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There @@ -34,8 +38,9 @@ Version 1.10 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code - through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The profiling code was adapted - from 4.4 BSD-Lite. + through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by + the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils); + the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang. * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from Sun, and modified by JT Conklin with i387 support and by Ian Taylor with @@ -142,6 +147,10 @@ Version 1.10 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 1.3.29 and later, using the ELF object file format (i[345]86-*-linux). +* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux). + +* David Mosberger-Tang has ported the C library to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). + * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to support multiple languages, for use with his new package GNU gettext. |