From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 2178) id AF689393BC1D; Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:43:48 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org AF689393BC1D Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Florian Weimer To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] NEWS: Add entry for glibc-hwcaps and deprecate legacy hwcaps X-Act-Checkin: glibc X-Git-Author: Florian Weimer X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 04dff6fc0d4ad44fc4491f89fed6574380b78251 X-Git-Newrev: 570bb42376b0885e34454b22baa005090e0e1ea2 Message-Id: <20210129164348.AF689393BC1D@sourceware.org> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:43:48 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Glibc-cvs mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:43:48 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=570bb42376b0885e34454b22baa005090e0e1ea2 commit 570bb42376b0885e34454b22baa005090e0e1ea2 Author: Florian Weimer Date: Fri Jan 29 17:26:18 2021 +0100 NEWS: Add entry for glibc-hwcaps and deprecate legacy hwcaps Diff: --- NEWS | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d121f7df87..920fc779d0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ Major new features: * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity to change argv[0] string. +* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects + from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library + search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for + that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include + "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture, + "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3", + "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the + subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64 + microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement. + +* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and + information and library search path diagnostics. + * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo, but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are larger than fit in an integer. @@ -63,6 +76,14 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios. +* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the + "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that + corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing + the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to + the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only + the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be + loaded. + Changes to build and runtime requirements: * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with