[glibc] NEWS: mention more recent developments
"Andreas K. Huttel via Glibc-cvs" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:50:23 +0000 (GMT)
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=b9bd146ad1be2f459bab404fca07201871446761 commit b9bd146ad1be2f459bab404fca07201871446761 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> Date: Mon Jul 20 17:21:29 2026 +0900 NEWS: mention more recent developments Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> Diff: --- NEWS | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e1c1db284a..a8aadb9345 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -27,10 +27,15 @@ Major new features: been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular cosh, sinh, and tanh. -* The SVID handling for cosh and sinh were moved to compat symbols, allowing - improvements in performance. +* Many additional improvements to existing functions have been synchronized + from the CORE-MATH project. -* New locale added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil). +* For C++26, the assert macro is now variadic, allowing more complex + arguments containing commas (which however still must evaluate to a single + value). + +* The SVID error handling for cosh and sinh was moved to compatibility + symbols, allowing improvements in performance. * Static PIE is now supported for arm-*-linux-gnueabi. It requires toolchain support to correctly set the expected linker options. @@ -42,8 +47,22 @@ Major new features: status via the prctl syscall. This prevents disabling or corrupting the GCS shadow stack during runtime. +* On AArch64 targets, log, exp, sin, cas, sinh, cosh, asinh, acosh, atanh + single and double precision special cases have been vectorized for SVE and + AdvSIMD, and vector variants of powr have been added. + +* On RISC-V targets, vector extension optimized variants of memcmp, memccpy, + memchr, memcpy, memmove, stpncpy, strcmp, strchr, strcpy, strncmp, strncpy, + strlen, and strrchr have been added. + +* On PowerPC, memchr optimized for Power10 has been re-added. + +* Support for LoongArch32 has been added. + * Pre-built ld.so.cache files can be installed with ldconfig. +* A new locale has been added: hrx_BR (Hunsrik language spoken in Brazil). + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * Although malloc and related functions currently return pointers