X-Git-Url: http://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/?p=kopensolaris-gnu%2Fglibc.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=dfd3cd7ecc132c4d566383eee7582d7b933a22ee;hp=fbc7cabe1302fc91d47b33557e8e6c5d7adaa3b5;hb=873270f65f5043971286ecfa06b57ddd69c8943e;hpb=85e715b68c694746a9aef7bde95d2c903f5a654f diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fbc7cabe13..dfd3cd7ecc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 26 January 1997 +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1997-03-18 Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -7,6 +7,36 @@ Please send GNU C library bug reports using the `glibcbug' script to . Questions and suggestions should be send to . +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 from ISO C 9X provides information and + interfaces for the available integer types + +* the new header 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 + Version 2.0.2 * more bug fixes @@ -14,6 +44,8 @@ Version 2.0.2 * add atoll function * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code + +* fix math functions Version 2.0.1