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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 27 March 1995
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 July 1995
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -23,10 +23,14 @@ Version 1.10
Run `configure --help' to see the details.
* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
- (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only).
- The `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared'
- options to `configure' enable building these extra libraries.
- The shared library is built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld.
+ (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
+ `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
+ `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
+ built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
+ are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
+ loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
+ new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
+ dynamic linker, `ld.so'.
* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
@@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ Version 1.10
* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
-* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA14 release.
+* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA24 release.
* The new function `malloc_find_object_address' finds the starting address
of a malloc'd block, given any address within the block. This can be