From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/5580 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl firsts Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:54:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20140724065446.GN9928@port70.net> References: <20140724000405.GA21561@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406184907 13079 80.91.229.3 (24 Jul 2014 06:55:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 06:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: Rich Felker Original-X-From: musl-return-5585-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Jul 24 08:55:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XACvb-0002p0-FD for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:54:59 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 17921 invoked by uid 550); 24 Jul 2014 06:54:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 17902 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 06:54:58 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: Rich Felker , musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140724000405.GA21561@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:5580 Archived-At: * Rich Felker [2014-07-23 20:04:05 -0400]: > Random fun list I thought we could compile for promotional material > (maybe use in future talks, website, etc.): features that musl had > before any of the competitors. A few to start it off, in roughly > chronological order: > > - TCB shadow passwords > - Bcrypt in libc crypt > - Safe and working thread cancellation > - Correctly-rounded sqrt on 32-bit x86 > - AS-safe and fail-safe dynamic TLS > - VSDO on 32-bit x86 > - Link-local address scope ids in hosts file > - Using link-local addresses for nameservers in resolv.conf > - OpenRISC 1000 (or1k) port in upstream > > I can think of a lot of smaller things too that are more like bugfixes > and probably not worth mentioning, like AS-safety of various functions > that are required to be AS-safe but that are broken in most libcs. > Additions to the list are welcome. - correct types in ipc structs on linux - strtod that does not malloc/abort - <10k worst-case stack usage guarantee (except execl* where stack usage is caller dependent: args are copied to the stack) - correct utf8 in libc? - jn(INT_MIN, 12.34) does not invoke ub!