A Look At The New Features Coming To GNU C Library 2.25
Three weeks from today should mark a new release of the GNU C Library, glibc 2.25, and it's coming with many feature additions.
Ahead of the planned 1 February release, for those wondering what features are in the works for glibc 2.25 they include:
- Functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml were added to libc to convert a floating-point number into a string.
- Glibc has added support for getentropy() and getrandom() functions.
- New math.h features including nearest integer functions, max-min magnitude functions, NaN functions, and other math additions.
- Support for OpenBSD's explicit_bzero that can be used in place of memset() to ensure data is erased after use.
- Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled via --enable-stack-protector=strong.
- Expanded coverage of GDB pretty printers.
- A tunables feature to support tweaking of the run-time for an application program.
- Various bug-fixes and other minor improvements.
Those wishing to dive through more of the GLIBC 2.25 changes ahead of its official release can roam through the Git code.
Ahead of the planned 1 February release, for those wondering what features are in the works for glibc 2.25 they include:
- Functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml were added to libc to convert a floating-point number into a string.
- Glibc has added support for getentropy() and getrandom() functions.
- New math.h features including nearest integer functions, max-min magnitude functions, NaN functions, and other math additions.
- Support for OpenBSD's explicit_bzero that can be used in place of memset() to ensure data is erased after use.
- Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled via --enable-stack-protector=strong.
- Expanded coverage of GDB pretty printers.
- A tunables feature to support tweaking of the run-time for an application program.
- Various bug-fixes and other minor improvements.
Those wishing to dive through more of the GLIBC 2.25 changes ahead of its official release can roam through the Git code.
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