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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:01:51 -0400
From: Gregor Richards <gr@...due.edu>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 0.9.3 released
On 08/02/2012 10:36 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After a few days' delay, here is the next release, 0.9.3, as promised:
>
> New experimental MIPS port (32-bit, o32 ABI, static-linked-only at
> this point). Various dynamic linker/loader bugs fixed. Network
> service name lookup support from /etc/services. Wrappers for more
> non-POSIX Linux syscalls. Overhauled crypt() with drastic
> reductions in memory usage and run time. Fixes for several
> important thread bugs including internal lock corruption, spurious
> sem_trywait failure, and race conditions on detached-thread exit,
> as well as various minor bug fixes.
>
> http://www.etalabs.net/musl/releases/musl-0.9.3.tar.gz
>
> A few pending issues that will be addressed after the release are
> fixing the ARM setjmp/longjmp code not to break callers that are using
> the fpu, improving memcpy (and other string functions) performance on
> x86 with asm, and getting dynamic-linking support into the mips port.
> I'd also like to finish and integrate the rest of rdp's porting work
> (mips64, ppc, and microblaze) and possibly get an x32 (32-bit ABI on
> x86_64) port underway, and integrate additional hash function support
> (blowfish, sha, md5) for crypt.
>
> Priority scheduling and related realtime issues are something I
> haven't really touched yet, but it's also on the table for later in
> the 0.9.x series.
>
> Rich
Updated cross compilers for every supported target are at
http://bitbucket.org/GregorR/musl-cross/downloads .
With valediction,
- Gregor Richards
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