-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 January 1997
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1997-03-18
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+Version 2.1
+
+* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
+ model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
+ symbol level.
+
+* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
+ command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
+
+* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X
+
+* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
+ numbers
+
+* scanf recognizes the %A format for scanning floating point numbers
+
+* the new header <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides information and
+ interfaces for the available integer types
+
+* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
+ functions from ISO C 9X
+
+* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0 and 1.
+ The implementation for securelevel 2 will follow as soon as the Diffie-
+ Hellman patent expired.
+
+* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library
+\f
+Version 2.0.2
+
+* more bug fixes
+
+* add atoll function
+
+* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
+
+* fix math functions
+\f
+Version 2.0.1
+
+* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
+
+* dynamic loader preserves all registers
+
+* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
+ the ELF dynamic loader.
+
+* support for parallel builds is improved
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Version 2.0
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