From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1398 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregor Richards Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 0.9.3 released Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:01:51 -0400 Message-ID: <501BD9CF.5060204@purdue.edu> References: <20120803023633.GG544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344002546 2411 80.91.229.3 (3 Aug 2012 14:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:02:26 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1399-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Aug 03 16:02:25 2012 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 1SxISP-0005ym-7G for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:02:25 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 16044 invoked by uid 550); 3 Aug 2012 14:02:24 -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 16034 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2012 14:02:23 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <20120803023633.GG544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.388399 X-PerlMx-Virus-Scanned: Yes Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1398 Archived-At: On 08/02/2012 10:36 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > Hi all, > > After a few days' delay, here is the next release, 0.9.3, as promised: > > New experimental MIPS port (32-bit, o32 ABI, static-linked-only at > this point). Various dynamic linker/loader bugs fixed. Network > service name lookup support from /etc/services. Wrappers for more > non-POSIX Linux syscalls. Overhauled crypt() with drastic > reductions in memory usage and run time. Fixes for several > important thread bugs including internal lock corruption, spurious > sem_trywait failure, and race conditions on detached-thread exit, > as well as various minor bug fixes. > > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/releases/musl-0.9.3.tar.gz > > A few pending issues that will be addressed after the release are > fixing the ARM setjmp/longjmp code not to break callers that are using > the fpu, improving memcpy (and other string functions) performance on > x86 with asm, and getting dynamic-linking support into the mips port. > I'd also like to finish and integrate the rest of rdp's porting work > (mips64, ppc, and microblaze) and possibly get an x32 (32-bit ABI on > x86_64) port underway, and integrate additional hash function support > (blowfish, sha, md5) for crypt. > > Priority scheduling and related realtime issues are something I > haven't really touched yet, but it's also on the table for later in > the 0.9.x series. > > Rich Updated cross compilers for every supported target are at http://bitbucket.org/GregorR/musl-cross/downloads . With valediction, - Gregor Richards