Update.

[kopensolaris-gnu/glibc.git] / BUGS

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+++ b/BUGS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
            List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
            ----------------------------------------------
 
-Time-stamp: <1997-11-12T04:42:03+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.  If you can fix one
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ GNU project.  There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
 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.
+`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.
 
 
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@@ -25,17 +27,12 @@ Severity: [  *] to [***]
 
 [ **]  There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
 
-[ **]  The libm-ieee `log2' function seems to be very inaccurate.
-
-[  *]  The libm-ieee `remquo' function rounds 3.0/2.0 incorrectly.
+[ **]  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
@@ -47,19 +44,25 @@ Severity: [  *] to [***]
        which are not defined in the charmap.
        [PR libc/229]
 
-[  *]  The rcmd() functions (more concrete: the handling of .rhosts) does
-       not support netgroups and wildcards (+).
-
 [  *]  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]
+       [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 libm-ieee `asin' function gives wrong results (at least for 0.5).
+[  *]  The strftime() implementation cannot handle multibyte locales really
+       good since the TOLOWER and TOUPPER are not prepared.
 
-[  *]  _IO_getline can loop forever, at least with C++
-       [PR libc/332]
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 Ulrich Drepper
 drepper@cygnus.com