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Final update for 2.16 release.
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2012-06-30 Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
* NEWS: Update copyright. Remove last-updated date.
Mention math library bug fixes and timezone data changes.
* README: Mention GNU/Hurd, x32, and HPPA support status.
2012-06-28 Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>
* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Sort alphabetically by last name.

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GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2012-1-27
Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
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what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
Contributed by H.J. Lu.
* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
<ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
Version 2.15
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Copyright information:
Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the

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In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu.
GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu. The current
GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be
incorporated into an official GNU C Library release.
When working with Linux kernels, the GNU C Library version from
version 2.4 on is intended primarily for use with Linux kernel version
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The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
x86_64-*-linux-gnu
x86_64-*-linux-gnu Can build either x86_64 or x32
powerpc-*-linux-gnu Hardware floating point required
powerpc64-*-linux-gnu
s390-*-linux-gnu
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alpha*-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
am33*-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional
arm-*-linux-gnueabi Requires Linux 2.6.16-rc1 or newer for NPTL
hppa-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
hppa-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional without patches.
ia64-*-linux-gnu
m68k-*-linux-gnu
mips-*-linux-gnu Requires Linux 2.6.12 or newer for NPTL