From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7797 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Progress since 1.1.9 Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 19:13:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20150527231308.GA10123@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 1432768408 8921 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2015 23:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 23:13:28 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7809-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu May 28 01:13:28 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YxkVs-0005MR-0L for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 May 2015 01:13:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 23958 invoked by uid 550); 27 May 2015 23:13:26 -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 23896 invoked from network); 27 May 2015 23:13:21 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7797 Archived-At: Fixed regressions from 1.1.9: - Inability to build as thumb2 for ARM - i386 thread-pointer-init breakage under qmeu-user - Broken copy relocations on PowerPC - Problems with crt_arch.h on some archs/toolchains - PIC violations in crt_arch.h based Scrt1.o with vis.h in use Other fixes: - Null deref in gettext - Broken stack alignment in mips Scrt1.o and dynamic linker Locale work: - Removing TLS avoidance hacks - Removing unecessary use of low-level atomics - Static fail-safe C locales for newlocale to return - Saving locale name for all categories New features/enhancements: - Production of rcrt1.o start file for static PIE - "CHAR" and "" support in iconv_open - SH4a inline atomics Out-of-tree work: - Refactoring atomics for archs that provide only LLSC or CAS - New internal-lock/normal-type-mutex design The one roadmap item I don't have any progress on is what to do with the libgcc_s symbol version mess, and I think we should probably just hold off until the next release cycle for that now. Please test and report any new regressions -- see the above list for areas that might have regressions. I'll try to keep making a few more improvements over the next few days and try to get another release packaged soon! Rich