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@@ -456,3 +456,37 @@ bug fixes:
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- strtoull wrongly rejecting the highest 16 possible values as overflow
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- math.h constant expression fixes for INFINITY/NAN/etc.
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- scanf mishandling of "0" with "%x"
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+0.8.8 release notes
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+new feature:
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+- major math correctness and performance improvements
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+- many math functions implemented in asm for i386
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+- some math functions (mostly long double) in asm for x86_64
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+- new floating point parser/converter with correct rounding
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+- implement wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold
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+- new scanf implementation - cleaner, faster, more correct
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+- minimal/incomplete strfmon implementation
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+compatibility:
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+- header fixes for c++
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+- regex code resync with TRE; support common regex extensions
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+- support for compiling apps with gcc's -funsigned-char
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+- sysconf now returns dynamic limits for open files, processes
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+- give dlerror proper error status stickiness
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+- make alloca work even with -fno-builtin
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+critical security fixes:
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+- stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf on unbuffered files
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+other bug fixes:
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+- rare gcc register allocation (miscompilation) bug in syscall wrappers
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+- printf was rejecting the valid (but redundant) %lf format specifier
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+- fixed big data bloat (missing const) in math functions
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+- many math fixes related to floating point exceptions and rounding
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+- corrected DECIMAL_DIG definitions
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+- tgammal was wrongly setting global signgam
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+- crash in wordfree with uninitialized we_offs
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+- fix wordexp not null-initializing the we_offs initial slots
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Rich Felker