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2014-01-31[BZ #12751]Alexandre Oliva
* manual/memory.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.
2014-01-31* manual/math.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/locale.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/llio.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/libdl.texi: New.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/lang.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/job.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/getopt.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-31* manual/ctype.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-30* manual/debug.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/charset.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/crypt.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/conf.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/arith.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/argp.texi: Document MTASC-safety properties.Alexandre Oliva
2014-01-29* manual/macros.texi: Introduce macros to document multiAlexandre Oliva
thread, asynchronous signal and asynchronous cancellation safety properties. * manual/intro.texi: Introduce the properties themselves.
2014-01-01Update remaining copyright datesAllan McRae
Update copyright years that are not handled by scripts/update-copyright.
2014-01-01Update copyright notices with scripts/update-copyrightsAllan McRae
2013-12-30Fix spelling in manual, as in bug 16376Ville Skytta
2013-12-23Clarify that scanf does not use character classes. Fixes bug 12986Ondřej Bílka
Update documentation to say that scanf ("%[[:alpha:]]", c) does not read alphabetic characters but is parsed literarily.
2013-12-19Update texinfo.tex, config.guess, config.sub from upstream.Joseph Myers
This patch updates various miscellaneous files we take from upstream GNU sources (texinfo.texi, config.guess, config.sub - various others haven't changed upstream since we last updated them) to their current upstream versions. Tested x86_64. * manual/texinfo.tex: Update to version 2013-11-26.10 with trailing whitespace removed. * scripts/config.guess: Update to version 2013-11-29. * scripts/config.sub: Update to version 2013-10-01.
2013-12-19Add _DEFAULT_SOURCE feature test macro.Joseph Myers
This patch adds a feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE to enable the default set of header declarations. The intention is: if _DEFAULT_SOURCE is not used there is no change to the set of __USE_* macros glibc defines; if it's used on its own, and without compiler options such as -std=c99 that define __STRICT_ANSI__, again, there is no change; if it's used together with the macros it approximately (i.e., apart from __USE_POSIX_IMPLICITLY) implies (-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L), again, there is no change. Otherwise, it causes the relevant features to be enabled, even if __STRICT_ANSI__, or another feature test macro, would cause them to be disabled. This macro deliberately bundles the POSIX.1-2008 (non-X/Open) functionality with the BSD/SVID/"misc" functionality, rather than defining a macro that gives just the latter, as many of the header cleanups resulting from removing _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE support are only possible when BSD/SVID/"misc" is always bundled with POSIX.1-2008. Tested x86_64. * include/features.h: Update comment documenting feature test macros. Mention _DEFAULT_SOURCE in comment. [_GNU_SOURCE] (_DEFAULT_SOURCE): Undefine and redefine. [_DEFAULT_SOURCE]: Undefine and redefine _DEFAULT_SOURCE, _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE. [!__STRICT_ANSI__ && !_ISOC99_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE && !_XOPEN_SOURCE && !_BSD_SOURCE && !_SVID_SOURCE]: Likewise. [_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE] (__USE_POSIX_IMPLICITLY): Define. [_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE] (_POSIX_SOURCE): Undefine and redefine. [_DEFAULT_SOURCE && !_POSIX_SOURCE && !_POSIX_C_SOURCE] (_POSIX_C_SOURCE): Likewise. * manual/creature.texi (_DEFAULT_SOURCE): Document. (Feature Test Macros): Update documentation of default features.
2013-12-19Stop partial menu generation in INSTALL fileAllan McRae
The commit d136c6dc resulted in menu text for the "Top" node being added to the INSTALL file on regeneration. As the full menu is not displayed in the plain text file anyway, suppress the menu section completely to avoid the additional text. Also regenerate the INSTALL file to commit a small formatting change introduced in the same commit.
2013-12-18Add error reporting (via errno) to getauxval().Brooks Moses
[BZ 15846] As discussed in the recent thread on my $EXEC_ORIGIN patch and in BZ 15846, getauxval() presently has no unambiguous way of reporting an error condition. It currently returns zero on error, but this may also be a valid result for some auxv entries. As there is no clear invalid result for all current and future auxv entries, this patch sets errno (following a suggestion in the BZ entry). This version of the patch also adds documentation and tests for the value-not-found conditions in getauxval().
2013-12-18Add missing deftp to fix commit 4d84e6addd62bdc256627af.Ondřej Bílka
2013-12-18Update documentation after dropping PER_THREAD conditional.Ondřej Bílka
In probes documentation we described what happens when PER_THREAD is disabled which is now not relevant.
2013-12-17Support TZ transition times < 00:00:00.Paul Eggert
This is needed for version-3 tz-format files; it supports time stamps past 2037 for America/Godthab (the only entry in the tz database for which this change is relevant). * manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): Document transition times from -167:59:59 through -00:00:01. * time/tzset.c (tz_rule): Time of day is now signed. (__tzset_parse_tz): Parse negative time of day.
2013-12-17Document TZ transition times >= 25:00:00.Paul Eggert
* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): Document transition times from 25:00:00 through 167:59:59. These are already supported, and this support will help with version-3 tz-format files.
2013-12-17* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): Modernize North America examplePaul Eggert
to reflect current (i.e., 2007-and-later) daylight saving rules.
2013-12-17* manual/time.texi (TZ Variable): POSIX.1 hour can be 24.Paul Eggert
2013-12-17Remove __FAVOR_BSD.Joseph Myers
2013-12-16manual/memory.texi: Document aligned_alloc.Will Newton
ChangeLog: 2013-12-16 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Mention aligned_alloc. (Aligned Memory Blocks): Add documentation for aligned_alloc and suggest it as an alternative to posix_memalign. (Hooks for Malloc): Document __memalign_hook is also called for aligned_alloc. (Summary of Malloc): Add summary for aligned alloc. Document __memalign_hook is also called for aligned_alloc.
2013-12-16manual/memory.texi: Bring aligned allocation docs up to date.Will Newton
The current documentation suggests using memalign and valloc which are now considered obsolete, so suggest using posix_memalign instead. Also document the possible error return and errno values for memalign and posix_memalign and improve documentation of __memalign_hook. ChangeLog: 2013-12-16 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Clarify default alignment documentation. Suggest posix_memalign rather than memalign or valloc. (Aligned Memory Blocks): Remove suggestion to use memalign or valloc. Remove obsolete comment about BSD. Document memalign errno values and mark the function obsolete. Document posix_memalign returned error codes. Mark valloc as obsolete. (Hooks for Malloc): __memalign_hook is also called for posix_memalign and valloc. (Summary of Malloc): Add posix_memalign to function summary. __memalign_hook is also called for posix_memalign and valloc.
2013-12-05BZ #15941: Fix INSTALL file regeneration failure with makeinfo 5.xSiddhesh Poyarekar
I have skipped regenerating the INSTALL file because we want to continue using the 4.x generator for now.
2013-12-04Clarify documentation on how functions use timezone. Fixes bug 926.Paul Eggert
2013-12-02Document shm_open.Ondřej Bílka
2013-11-28Document libm accuracy goals.Joseph Myers
2013-11-28Document some libm error handling intents.Joseph Myers
2013-11-20Consolidate valloc/pvalloc code.Ondřej Bílka
To make malloc code more maintainable we make malloc and pvalloc share logic with memalign.
2013-11-20Add systemtap probe markers for sin, cos, asin and acosSiddhesh Poyarekar
2013-11-06manual/memory.texi: Remove register keyword from examples.Will Newton
The register keyword doesn't add any information to the examples and is not useful for modern compilers. ChangeLog: 2013-11-06 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org> * manual/memory.texi (Malloc Examples): Remove register keyword from examples.
2013-11-01Fix description of random according to POSIX. Fixes bug 7003Bruno Haible
2013-10-30rename configure.in to configure.acMike Frysinger
Autoconf has been deprecating configure.in for quite a long time. Rename all our configure.in and preconfigure.in files to .ac. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2013-10-25Fix gethostbyname_r example. Fixes bug 2801.Ondřej Bílka
2013-10-25Acknowledge that fnmatch can fail. Fixes bug 14029.Ondřej Bílka
2013-10-25Document that mmap() returns MAP_FAILED on error, as per the POSIX standard.Fabrice Bauzac
2013-10-19Mention FIPS 140-2 compliance and Sun RPC.Carlos O'Donell
The Secure RPC implementation in glibc uses DES encryption during authentication of the user. This use of DES means that anyone using Sun RPC will likely not be compliant with FIPS 140-2 which forbids the use of DES. One solution to the compliance issue is to disable AUTH_DES and AUTH_KERB, both use DES, when in FIPS compliance mode. This is not a good idea because it disables all of the even mildly secure methods of authentication allowing only plain text methods. Instead we leave AUTH_DES and AUTH_KERB enabled in FIPS compliance mode and document the compliance issue in the manual. FIPS allows this, that is to say that if you can't fix it you must document the non-compliance. This commit adds documentation to that effect in the "DES encryption and password handling" section of the manual.
2013-10-11Add systemtap markers to math function slow pathsSiddhesh Poyarekar
Add systemtap probes to various slow paths in libm so that application developers may use systemtap to find out if their applications are hitting these slow paths. We have added probes for pow, exp, log, tan, atan and atan2.
2013-10-08Update gethostbyname2_r documentation. Fixes bug #156.Yogesh Chaudhari
2013-10-04Fix typo in manualSiddhesh Poyarekar