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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 January 1995
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 17 February 1995
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Version 1.10
symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
- `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have elf, and
- `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This changed resulted in the deletion
+ `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
+ `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ Version 1.10
strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
`unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
+* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
+ strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
+ respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
+
* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
@@ -48,6 +52,17 @@ Version 1.10
* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
+
+* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
+ printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
+ `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
+ accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
+
+* The `printf' family of functions now understand a new formatting flag
+ for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says to group
+ numbers as indicated by the locale. In the default "C" locale, numbers
+ are not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the
+ usual conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
Version 1.09