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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-02-26 11:20:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-02-26 11:20:59 +0000 |
| commit | d111572f2f7c595060b9bafcadba98d5391d464c (patch) | |
| tree | 6ede0af6714c7586d9f52caa90118ef6af4b21e0 /FAQ.in | |
| parent | 14e9dd679a43ef9eb90adc0764152045caab6146 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-d111572f2f7c595060b9bafcadba98d5391d464c.tar.gz | |
Update.
1998-02-26 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* nis/ypclnt.c (yp_master): Check result of strdup.
Patch by Thorsten Kukuk.
1998-02-26 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
* nis/ypclnt.c: Give clnt handle after error checking free, change
return codes to fix problems with rpc.nisd in YP mode on Ultra's.
1998-02-26 09:00 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* misc/fstab.c: Partly rewritten to use dynamically allocated buffer.
Patch by Joe Keane <jgk@jgk.org>.
* misc/fstab.h (struct fstab): Change fs_type member to be const.
* misc/fstab.c: Remove casts in fs_type assignments.
1998-02-26 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/bits/fenv.h: Correct typo. ISO C 9X defines
FE_TOWARDZERO and not FE_TOWARDSZERO. Reported by H.J. Lu.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/fpu/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc32/fpu/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/m68k/fpu/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/generic/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/alpha/fpu/bits/fenv.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/fesetenv.c (fesetenv): Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/test-arith.c (main): Likewise.
1998-02-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/i386/fpu/bits/mathinline.h: Also fix i386 versions of
the comparison macros.
1998-02-21 20:14 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_log2.c (ln2): Added.
(__log2): Fixed return values.
* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_log2f.c: Likewise.
1998-02-25 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* math/math.h (isunordered): Rename local variables to ensure
correct code. Reported by HJ Lu.
1998-02-25 10:34 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdpes/i386/fpu/bits/mathinline.h (isgreater, isgreaterequal,
isless, islessequal, islessgreater, isunordered): Fix syntax for
fucompip instruction.
(isless, islessequal): Fix logic.
1998-02-21 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* math/libm-test.c (sqrt_test): Add test for sqrt(2).
(comparisons_test): New tests for comparison macros.
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ.in | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -150,6 +150,17 @@ in configparms. Later versions of egcs may fix these problems. If you have some more measurements let me know. +?? What version of the Linux kernel headers should be used? + +{AJ,UD} The headers from the most recent Linux kernel should be used. +The headers used while compiling the GNU C library and the kernel +binary used when using the library do not need to match. The GNU C +library runs without problems on kernels that are older than the +kernel headers used. The other way round (compiling the GNU C library +with old kernel headers and running on a recent kernel) does not +necessarily work. For example you can't use new kernel features when +using old kernel headers for compiling the GNU C library. + ?? When I run `nm -u libc.so' on the produced library I still find unresolved symbols. Can this be ok? @@ -601,10 +612,10 @@ problem. ?? What do I need for C++ development? {HJ,AJ} You need either egcs 1.0.1 or gcc-2.8.0 with libstdc++ -2.8.0. libg++ 2.7.2 (and the Linux Versions 2.7.2.x) doesn't work very +2.8.0. libg++ 2.7.2 (and the Linux Versions 2.7.2.x) doesn't work very well with the GNU C library due to vtable thunks. If you're upgrading from glibc 2.0.x to 2.1 you have to recompile -libstc++ the library compiled for 2.0 is not compatible due to the new +libstc++ the library compiled for 2.0 is not compatible due to the new Large File Support (LFS) in version 2.1. ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them |