Re: gcc will become the best optimizing x86 compiler

["Dennis Clarke" <blastwave at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Eus <eus@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi Ho!
>
> --- On Tue, 7/29/08, "Dennis Clarke" <blastwave@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hold on .. on the NEWS page I see ... okay .. how very user friendly.
>> Sort of the thing one would put on the project homepage I would think.
>
> Do you mind to tell me what you saw?
> I was looking for the interesting part on the latest release of the NEWS on the CVS but to no avail.
>
> Thank you for your help.

It says :

GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2008-7-27
Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.

Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
using `glibc' in the "product" field.

Version 2.9

* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
  up at the same time.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
  Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.

* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
  htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
  Implemented by Eric Blake.

* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, paccept, dup3, epoll_create2, pipe2

* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
  close-on-exec flag set

* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
  flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

Version 2.8

* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.

* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.

* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
  Implemented by Pravin Satpute.

* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID

* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
  vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
  Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.

* Faster memset for x86-64.
  Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.

* Faster memcpy on x86.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux.  Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
  Implemented by Stephen Munroe.

Version 2.7

* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
  Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.

* Extend fortification to C++.  Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.

* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf.  Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
  by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
  Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.

* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
  Implemented by Steven Munroe.

* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64.  Like mkstemp* but allow additional
  options to be passed.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* More CPU set manipulation functions.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
  Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.

* Add support for O_CLOEXEC.  Implement in Hurd.  Use throughout libc.
  Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
  ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
  yo_NG.

+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

Version 2.6

* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.

* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.

* nscd can now cache the services database.   Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.

etc etc etc

Dennis