From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7879 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 1.1.10 released Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 11:01:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20150605150156.GU17573@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20150604203018.GA10046@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20150605112030.3a8c8184@vostro> 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 1433516562 21378 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2015 15:02:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:02:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7892-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Jun 05 17:02:30 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 1Z0t8Q-0000HM-R3 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:02:14 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 22103 invoked by uid 550); 5 Jun 2015 15:02:11 -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 22079 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2015 15:02:10 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150605112030.3a8c8184@vostro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7879 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 11:20:30AM +0300, Timo Teras wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 16:30:18 -0400 > Rich Felker wrote: > > > This release fixes regressions introduced as part of the dynamic > > linker bootstrap overhaul in musl 1.1.9, and adds several new features > > and improvements. Internal cleanup and optimizations have been made to > > the locale system. A fail-safe/allocation-free locale_t object for the > > C locale is now available via newlocale(), and the iconv_open function > > now supports "" and "CHAR" as aliases for the native (UTF-8) encoding. > > A new crt start file, rcrt1.o, is provided for producing static-linked > > position independent executables (PIE). Minor PIE-related > > arch-specific bugs, and a bug in the ungetc and ungetwc stdio > > functions which caused them to fail on files in EOF status, have also > > been fixed. > > > > http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.10.tar.gz > > http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.10.tar.gz.asc > > > > Thanks as always to musl's Patreon release sponsors: > > > > - The Midipix Project (midipix.org) > > - Hurricane Labs (hurricanelabs.com) > > - Justin Cormack > > > > Further notes on upcoming development will follow soon. > > There's relatively nasty regression in uselocale() breaking most X > applications (due to some libraries). > > See patch at: > http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/plain/main/musl/0001-fix-uselocale-locale_t-0-to-not-modify-locale.patch Uhg, this kind of thing is exactly why I've been wishing we had tests for locale functions. I tested it minimally by hand but didn't think to try passing (locale_t)0. I'll probably make a fix release with this patch applied. Rich