GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 1999-05-18
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Version 2.1.1
* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
* Update timezone data files.
* lots of charmaps corrections
* some new locale definitions and charmaps
Version 2.1
* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper i
