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