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      1 <html><body><pre>Bionic ChangeLog:
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      3 
      4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      5 Differences between Android 2.3 and Android 2.2:
      6 
      7 - &lt;pthread.h&gt;: Add reader/writer locks implementation. Add sanity
      8   checking to pthread_mutex_destroy() (e.g. a locked mutex will return
      9   EBUSY).
     10 
     11 - &lt;semaphore.h&gt;: Use private futexes for semaphore implementation,
     12   unless your set 'pshared' to non-0 when calling sem_init().
     13 
     14   Also fixed a bug in sem_post() to make it wake up all waiting
     15   threads, instead of one. As a consequence, the maximum semaphore
     16   value is now reduced to 0x3fffffff.
     17 
     18 - &lt;math.h&gt;: Added sincos(), sincosf() and sincosl() (GLibc compatibility).
     19 
     20 - &lt;sys/sysinfo.h&gt;: Added missing sysinfo() system call implementation
     21   (the function was already declared in the header though).
     22 
     23 - sysconf() didn't work for some arguments due to a small bug in the
     24   /proc line parser.
     25 
     26 - &lt;termio.h&gt;: added missing header (just includes &lt;termios.h&gt;)
     27 
     28 - &lt;unistd.h&gt;: add missing declaration for truncate(). The implementation
     29   was already here since Android 1.5.
     30 
     31   modify implementation of alarm() to return 0 in case of error (i.e.
     32   if a value larger than 0x7fffffff seconds is passed to it). This
     33   makes the implementation compliant with the GLibc behaviour.
     34 
     35 - &lt;wchar.h&gt;: small fixes to really support wchar_t in Bionic (not there yet).
     36 
     37      the size of wchar_t is still 32-bit (decided by the compiler)
     38 
     39      WCHAR_MIN: changed from 0 to INT_MIN
     40      WCHAR_MAX: changed from 255 to INT_MAX
     41 
     42      wcpcpy(), wcpncpy(), wcscat(), wcschr(), wcscmp(),
     43      wcscpy(), wcscspn(), wcsdup(), wcslcat(), wcslcpy(),
     44      wcslen(), wcsncat(), wcsncmp(), wcsncpy(), wcsnlen(),
     45      wcspbrk(), wcsrchr(), wcsrchr(), wcsspn(), wcsstr(),
     46      wcstok(), wcswidth(), wmemchr(), wmemcmp(), wmemcpy(),
     47      wmemmove(), wmemset(): Added proper implementations.
     48 
     49      wcscasecmp(), wcsncasecmp(): Added implementation limited
     50      to ASCII codes for lower/upper.
     51 
     52      wcscoll(): added dummy implementation that calls wcscmp()
     53      wcsxfrm(): added dummy implementation that calls wcsncpy()
     54 
     55   NOTE: Technically, this breaks the ABI, but we never claimed to support
     56         wchar_t anyway. The wchar_t support is still *NOT* official at this
     57         point. We need better multi-byte support code, and wprintf/wscanf
     58         stuff too.
     59 
     60 - &lt;inttypes.h&gt;: add missing declarations for strntoimax abd strntoumax.
     61 
     62 - &lt;stdlib.h&gt;: add missing declarations for drand48() and erand48().
     63 
     64 - clearerr(): fix broken implementation.
     65 
     66 - Feature test macros like _POSIX_C_SOURCE / _XOPEN_SOURCE / _C99_SOURCE
     67   are now handled correctly by our C library headers (see &lt;sys/cdefs.h&gt;)
     68 
     69 - &lt;sys/select.h&gt;: add missing declaration for pselect()
     70 
     71 - &lt;sys/vfs.h&gt;: fixed implementation of fstatfs() (also fixes fpathconf()
     72   which uses it).
     73 
     74 - Added an implementation of pthread_atfork()
     75 
     76 - &lt;dlfcn.h&gt;: fixed dlopen() implementation to support dlopen(NULL, ...).
     77   This allows one to look at the dynamic symbols exported by an executable.
     78 
     79 - &lt;private/bionic_tls.h&gt;: use kernel helper functions for static versions
     80   of the C library. This is necessary because we don't know where the corresponding
     81   machine code is going to run, and the optimization for __get_tls() might
     82   not match the features of the target device where we run a static executable
     83   linked to the C library. This fixes one of the bug that explains why gdbserver
     84   didn't work well with threads.
     85 
     86 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     87 Differences between Android 2.2. and Android 2.1:
     88 
     89 - Support FP register save/load in setjmp()/longjmp() on ARMv7 builds.
     90 
     91 - Add support for SH-4 CPU architecture !
     92 
     93 - __atomic_swap(): use LDREX/STREX CPU instructions on ARMv6 and higher.
     94 
     95 - &lt;arpa/telnet.h&gt;: New header (declarations only, no implementation).
     96 
     97 - &lt;err.h&gt;: New header + implementation. GLibc compatibility.
     98 
     99 - &lt;warn.h&gt;: New header + implementation. GLibc compatibility.
    100 
    101 - &lt;fts.h&gt;: New header + implementation.
    102 
    103 - &lt;mntent.h&gt;: Add missing &lt;stdio.h&gt; include.
    104 
    105 - &lt;regex.h&gt;: New header + implementation.
    106 
    107 - &lt;signal.h&gt;: Added killpg()
    108 
    109 - &lt;stdint.h&gt;: Allow 64-bit type declarations on C99 builds.
    110 
    111 - &lt;stdio.h&gt;: Add fdprintf() and vfdprintf(). Note that GLibc provides
    112   the confusing 'dprintf' and 'vdprintf()' functions instead.
    113 
    114 - &lt;stdlib.h&gt;: Fix ptsname_r(): the return type is int instead of char*.
    115   The mistake comes from a GLibc man page bug (the man page listed a return
    116   type of char*, while the implementation used int. Fixed in late 2009 only).
    117   The Bionic implementation was incorrect. Technically, this is an ABI
    118   breakage, but code that used this function probably never worked or
    119   compiled properly anyway.
    120 
    121 - &lt;strings.h&gt;: Add missing &lt;sys/types.h&gt; include.
    122 
    123 - &lt;sys/queue.h&gt;: Added new header (no implementation - macro templates).
    124 
    125 - &lt;sys/resource.h&gt;: Add rlim_t proper definition.
    126 
    127 - &lt;time64.h&gt;: Add missing C++ header inclusion guards.
    128 
    129 - &lt;unistd.h&gt;: Add getusershell(), setusershell() and endusershell(), though
    130   implementation are bogus. GLibc compatibility.
    131 
    132 - &lt;wchar.h&gt;: Add mbstowcs() and wcstombs()
    133 
    134 - add clone() implementation for ARM (x86 and SH-4 not working yet).
    135 
    136 - &lt;sys/epoll.h&gt;: &lt;sys/system_properties.h&gt;: Add missing C++ inclusion guards
    137 
    138 - fix getpwnam() and getpwgrp() to accept "app_0" as a valid user name.
    139 
    140 - fix sem_trywait() to return -1 and set errno to EAGAIN, instead of
    141   returning EAGAIN directly.
    142 
    143 - fix sem_post() to wake up multiple threads when called rapidly in
    144   succession.
    145 
    146 - DNS: partial implementation of RFC3484 (rule 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10 and
    147   modified rule 9), for better address selection/sorting.
    148   In the process, removed code that was previously used for "sortlist"
    149   in /etc/resolv.conf. (resolv.conf is already ignored, so the latter
    150   is a no-op for actual functionality.)
    151 
    152 - fix pthread_sigmask() to properly return an error code without touching
    153   errno. Previous implementation returned -1 on error, setting errno, which
    154   is not Posix compliant.
    155 
    156 - add sigaltstack() implementation for ARM.
    157 
    158 - &lt;time.h&gt;: Properly implement the 'timezone' and 'daylight' global variables
    159   (they were not defined previously, though declared in the header).
    160 
    161 - &lt;time.h&gt;: Fix timezone management implementation to properly update
    162   'tm_gmtoff' field in 'struct tm' structure.
    163 
    164 - DNS: get rid of spurious random DNS queries when trying to resolve
    165   an unknown domain name. Due to an initialization bug, a random DNS search
    166   list was generated for each thread if net.dns.search is not defined.
    167 
    168 - &lt;pthread.h&gt;: Add pthread_condattr_init/destroy/setpshared/getpshared functions
    169   to enable proper shared conditional variable initialization.
    170 
    171   Modify the pthread_mutex_t and pthread_cond_t implementation to use private
    172   futexes for performance reasons. Mutexes and Condvars are no longer shareable
    173   between processes by default anymore, unless you use PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED
    174   with pthread_mutexattr_setpshared() and/or pthread_condattr_setpshared().
    175 
    176 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    177 Differences between Android 2.1 and 2.0.1:
    178 
    179 - zoneinfo: updated data tables to version 2009s
    180 
    181 
    182 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    183 Differences between Android 2.0.1 and 2.0:
    184 
    185 - abort(): ARM-specific hack to preserve the 'lr' register when abort()
    186   is called (GCC does not preserve it by default since it thinks that
    187   abort() never returns). This improves stack traces considerably.
    188 
    189 
    190 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    191 Differences between Android 2.0 and 1.6:
    192 
    193 - memcmp(), memcpy(): ARMv7 optimized versions.
    194 
    195 - pthread_mutexattr_setpshared(): implementation will not return ENOTSUP
    196   if PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED is used, because our Mutex implementation can
    197   work across multiple processes.
    198 
    199   *HOWEVER* it does not use "robust futexes" which means that held mutexes
    200   *are not* automatically released by the kernel when the owner process
    201   crashes or exits. This is only done to simplify communication between
    202   two always-live system processes, DO NOT USE THIS IN APPLICATIONS !
    203 
    204 - pthread_mutex_lock_timeout_np(): New Android-specific function to
    205   perform a timed lock (). In case of timeout, it returns EBUSY.
    206 
    207 - pthread_cond_timedwait_monotonic_np(): Same as pthread_cond_timedwait()
    208   but uses the monotonic clock(). Android-specific.
    209 
    210 - pthread_cond_timedwait_relative_np(): Same as pthread_cond_timedwait()
    211   but uses a relative timeout instead. Android-specific.
    212 
    213 - &lt;netinet/in.h&gt;: Now includes &lt;netinet/in6.h&gt;.
    214 
    215 - &lt;netinet/in6.h&gt;: Added IPV6_JOIN_GROUP, IPV6_LEAVE_GROUP, IN6ADDR_ANY_INIT
    216   and ipv6mr_interface definitions.
    217 
    218 - &lt;time.h&gt;:
    219     * Add missing tzset() declaration.
    220     * Add Android-specific strftime_tz().
    221 
    222 - getaddrinfo():
    223     Only perform IPv6 lookup for AF_UNSPEC if we have IPv6 connectivity.
    224     This saves one DNS query per lookup on non-IPv6 systems.
    225 
    226 - mktime(): Fix an infinite loop problem that appeared when switching to
    227   GCC 4.4.0.
    228 
    229 - strftime(): fix incorrect handling of dates &gt; 2038 due to 64-bit issue
    230   in original code.
    231 
    232 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    233 Differences between Android 1.6 and 1.5:
    234 
    235 - C runtime: Fix runtime initialization to be called before any static C++
    236   constructors. This allows these to use pthread functions properly.
    237 
    238 - __aeabi_atexit(): Fix implementation to properly call C++ static destructors
    239   when the program exits (or when a shared library is unloaded).
    240 
    241 - &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;: added GLibc compatibility macros definitions:
    242 
    243         #define  st_atimensec  st_atime_nsec
    244         #define  st_mtimensec  st_mtime_nsec
    245         #define  st_ctimensec  st_ctime_nsec
    246 
    247 - getaddrinfo(): implementation will now allow numeric ports if ai_socktype is
    248   set to ANY. This is to match the GLibc behaviour.
    249 
    250 - getservent(): and getservent_r() incorrectly returned the port in host-endian
    251   order in the s_port field. It now returns it in big-endian order.
    252 
    253 - DNS: Allow underscore in the middle of DNS labels. While not really
    254   standard, this extension is needed for some VPN configurations and is
    255   supported by other operating systems.
    256 
    257 - DNS: Support for DNS domain search lists through the new net.dns.search
    258   system property. The corresponding value must be a space-separated list of
    259   domain suffixes.
    260 </pre></body></html>