manpages. They are not very related, so separating them makes it
easier to add meaningful cross-references and extend some of the
descriptions.
- Move the part of math(3) that discusses IEEE 754 to the ieee(3)
manpage.
- It was added to libc instead of libm. Hopefully no programs rely
on this mistake.
- It didn't work properly on large long doubles because its argument
was converted to type double, resulting in undefined behavior.
isnormal() the hard way, rather than relying on fpclassify(). This is
a lose in the sense that we need a total of 12 functions, but it is
necessary for binary compatibility because we have never bumped libm's
major version number. In particular, isinf(), isnan(), and isnanf()
were BSD libc functions before they were C99 macros, so we can't
reimplement them in terms of fpclassify() without adding a dependency
on libc.so.5. I have tried to arrange things so that programs that
could be compiled in FreeBSD 4.X will generate the same external
references when compiled in 5.X. At the same time, the new macros
should remain C99-compliant.
The isinf() and isnan() functions remain in libc for historical
reasons; however, I have moved the functions that implement the macros
isfinite() and isnormal() to libm where they belong. Moreover,
half a dozen MD versions of isinf() and isnan() have been replaced
with MI versions that work equally well.
Prodded by: kris
may be built into libc (`static NSS modules') or dynamically loaded
via dlopen (`dynamic NSS modules'). Modules are loaded/initialized
at configuration time (i.e. when nsdispatch is called and nsswitch.conf
is read or re-read).
= Make the nsdispatch(3) core thread-safe.
= New status code for nsdispatch(3) `NS_RETURN', currently used to
signal ERANGE-type issues.
= syslog(3) problems, don't warn/err/abort.
= Try harder to avoid namespace pollution.
= Implement some shims to assist in porting NSS modules written for
the GNU C Library nsswitch interface.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
isnormal(). The current isinf() and isnan() are perserved for
binary compatibility with 5.0, but new programs will use the macros.
o Implement C99 comparison macros isgreater(), isgreaterequal(),
isless(), islessequal(), islessgreater(), isunordered().
Submitted by: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
o Add a MD header private to libc called _fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MD floating-point types.
o Add a MI header private to libc called fpmath.h; this header
contains bitfield layouts of MI floating-point types.
o Add private libc variables to lib/libc/$arch/gen/infinity.c for
storing NaN values.
o Add __double_t and __float_t to <machine/_types.h>, and provide
double_t and float_t typedefs in <math.h>.
o Add some C99 manifest constants (FP_ILOGB0, FP_ILOGBNAN, HUGE_VALF,
HUGE_VALL, INFINITY, NAN, and return values for fpclassify()) to
<math.h> and others (FLT_EVAL_METHOD, DECIMAL_DIG) to <float.h> via
<machine/float.h>.
o Add C99 macro fpclassify() which calls __fpclassify{d,f,l}() based
on the size of its argument. __fpclassifyl() is never called on
alpha because (sizeof(long double) == sizeof(double)), which is good
since __fpclassifyl() can't deal with such a small `long double'.
This was developed by David Schultz and myself with input from bde and
fenner.
PR: 23103
Submitted by: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
(significant portions)
Reviewed by: bde, fenner (earlier versions)
whether a named utility should behave in FreeBSD 4.x-compatible mode
or in a standard mode (default standard). The configuration is done
malloc(3)-style, with either an environment variable or a symlink.
Update expr(1) to use this new interface.
Add new dlfunc() interface, which is a version of dlsym() with a
return type that can be cast to a function pointer without turning
your computer into a frog.
Reviewed by: freebsd-standards
functions are defined in SUSv2 and the latest POSIX spec.
Thanks to Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> for helping debug my
alpha assembly.
Approved by: -arch
socket option for the Unix domain. It's weaker than the
socket option (this only returns the uid and gid, while the
socket opt. can return the entire group list), and is
implemented mostly for compatibility with OpenBSD.
arguments where the format string is obtained from user data, or
otherwise difficult to verify statically.
Example usage:
printf(fmtcheck(user_format, standard_format), arg1, arg2);
checks the format string user_format for consistency (same number/order/
type of format operators) with standard_format. If they differ,
standard_format is used instead to avoid potential crashes or security
violations.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Reviewed by: -arch
