List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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-Time-stamp: <1997-03-22T02:14:14+0100 drepper>
+Time-stamp: <1999-04-19T17:58:10-0700 drepper>
This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
-make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. I you can fix one
-of these bugs I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
+make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
+of these bugs/limitations I'll certainly be glad to receive a patch.
-Severity: [ *] to [***]
+Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
+GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
+ http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
-[ **] For GNU libc on Linux, there is still no solution for the UTMP
- problem.
- [Among others: PR libc/39]
+I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
+reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
+in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
+`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. Before reporting
+a bug please check the FAQ since it discusses also a lot of problematic
+situations.
-[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
-[ **] The `cbrtl' function is inaccurate. The algorithm used for `double'
- and `float' is not usable.
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Severity: [ *] to [***]
+
+
+[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
-[ **] Not really a bug, but it could lead to such:
- The RPC code is ugly ugly ugly. It's more or less verbatim taken
- from Sun's code and therefore mostly lacks complete prototypes and
- (more important) the use of `const'. It *definitely* needs to be
- cleaned.
+[ **] The RPC code is not 64 bit clean. This is getting slowly fixed
+ but expect incompatible changes on 64 bit platforms like Alpha.
[ *] The precision of the `sinhl' and/or `asinhl' function do not seem
to be the best.
-[ *] The syslog function should print to the console if the LOG_CONS
- flag was given.
- [PR libc/72]
+[ *] On Linux, there should be a way to prevent defining the symbol
+ NGROUPS_MAX in the <linux/limits.h> header file. In glibc it
+ is defined in <posix1_lim.h> which must not make the other
+ symbols in <linux/limits.h> available.
+ [PR libc/140]
+
+[ *] The localedef program should not generate errors if for categories
+ which are not used for the output there are characters referenced
+ which are not defined in the charmap.
+ [PR libc/229]
+
+[ *] When assembling a locale definition, that uses the "copy"
+ directive, with localedef, not only the copied category is
+ checked for errors, but the whole file containing the same
+ category.
+ [PR libc/207 and PR libc/454]
+
+[ *] The libm-ieee `gamma' function gives wrong results (at least for
+ -0.5).
+
+[ *] The libm-ieee `scalb' function gives wrong results for
+ non-integral second parameters.
+
+[ *] The *scanf() functions currently do not handle %l[ and %ls parameters
+ correctly since the parsing of the multi-byte characters does not
+ yet use mbsrtowcs().
+
+[ *] The strftime() implementation cannot handle multibyte locales really
+ good since the TOLOWER and TOUPPER are not prepared.
+
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+Ulrich Drepper
+drepper@cygnus.com
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