As discussed at the patch review meeting
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Chopin <simon.chopin@canonical.com>
POSIX.1-2024 (now official) specifies tm_gmtoff and tm_zone.
This is a good time to update the manual’s “Date and Time”
chapter so I went through it, fixed some outdated
stuff that had been in there for decades, and improved it to match
POSIX.1-2024 better and to clarify some implementation-defined
behavior. Glibc already conforms to POSIX.1-2024 in these matters, so
this is merely a documentation change.
* manual/examples/strftim.c: Use snprintf instead of now-deprecated
function asctime. Check for localtime failure. Simplify by using
puts instead of fputs. Prefer ‘buf, sizeof buf’ to less-obvious
‘buffer, SIZE’.
* manual/examples/timespec_subtract.c: Modernize to use struct
timespec not struct timeval, and rename from timeval_subtract.c.
All uses changed. Check for overflow. Do not check for negative
return value, which ought to be OK since negative time_t is OK.
Use GNU indenting style.
* manual/time.texi:
Document CLOCKS_PER_SEC, TIME_UTC, timespec_get, timespec_getres,
strftime_l.
Document the storage lifetime of tm_zone and of tzname.
Caution against use of tzname, timezone and daylight, saying that
these variables have unspecified values when TZ is geographic.
This is what glibc actually does (contrary to what the manual said
before this patch), and POSIX is planned to say the same thing
<https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1816>.
Also say that directly accessing the variables is not thread-safe.
Say that localtime_r and ctime_r don’t necessarily set time zone
state. Similarly, in the tzset documentation, say that it is called
by ctime, localtime, mktime, strftime, not that it is called by all
time conversion functions that depend on the time zone.
Say that tm_isdst is useful mostly just for mktime, and that
other uses should prefer tm_gmtoff and tm_zone instead.
Do not say that strftime ignores tm_gmtoff and tm_zone, because
it doesn’t do that.
Document what gmtime does to tm_gmtoff and tm_zone.
Say that the asctime, asctime_r, ctime, and ctime_r are now deprecated
and/or obsolescent, and that behavior is undefined if the year is <
1000 or > 9999. Document strftime before these now-obsolescent
functions, so that readers see the useful function first.
Coin the terms “geographical format” and “proleptic format” for the
two main formats of TZ settings, to simplify exposition. Use this
wording consistently.
Update top-level proleptic syntax to match POSIX.1-2024, which glibc
already implements. Document the angle-bracket quoted forms of time
zone abbreviations in proleptic TZ. Say that time zone abbreviations
can contain only ASCII alphanumerics, ‘+’, and ‘-’.
Document what happens if the proleptic form specifies a DST
abbreviation and offset but omits the rules. POSIX says this is
implementation-defined so we need to document it. Although this
documentation mentions ‘posixrules’ tersely, we need to rethink
‘posixrules’ since I think it stops working after 2038.
Clarify wording about TZ settings beginning with ‘;’.
Say that timegm is in ISO C (as of C23).
Say that POSIX.1-2024 removed gettimeofday.
Say that tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are extensions to ISO C, which is
clearer than saying they are invisible in a struct ISO C enviroment,
and gives us more wiggle room if we want to make them visible in
strict ISO C, something that ISO C allows.
Drop mention of old standards like POSIX.1c and POSIX.2-1992 in the
text when the history is so old that it’s no longer useful in a
general-purpose manual.
Define Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), time zone, time zone ruleset,
and POSIX Epoch, and use these phrases more consistently.
Improve TZ examples to show more variety, and to reflect current
practice and timestamps. Remove obsolete example about Argentina.
Add an example for Ireland.
Don’t rely on GCC extensions when explaining ctime_r.
Do not say that difftime produces the mathematically correct result,
since it might be inexact.
For clock_t don’t say “as in the example above” when there is no
such example, and don’t say that casting to double works “properly
and consistently no matter what”, as it suffers from rounding and
overflow.
Don’t say broken-down time is not useful for calculations; it’s
merely painful.
Say that UTC is not defined before 1960.
Rename Time Zone Functions to Time Zone State. All uses changed.
Update Internet RFC 822 → 5322, 1305 → 5905. Drop specific years of
ISO 8601 as they don’t matter.
Minor style changes: @code{"..."} → @t{"..."} to avoid overquoting in
info files, @code → @env for environment variables, Daylight Saving
Time → daylight saving time, white space → whitespace, prime meridian
→ Prime Meridian.
Since shadow stack is only supported for x86-64, ignore --enable-cet for
i386. Always setting $(enable-cet) for i386 to "no" to support
ifneq ($(enable-cet),no)
in x86 Makefiles. We can't use
ifeq ($(enable-cet),yes)
since $(enable-cet) can be "yes", "no" or "permissive".
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Parts of elf/tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.py have been copied from
scripts/tst-ld-trace.py.
The abnf module is entirely optional and used to verify the
ABNF grammar as included in the manual.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
We mentioned eventual dropping of libcrypt in the 2.28 NEWS. Actually
put that plan in motion by first disabling building libcrypt by default.
note in NEWS that the library will be dropped completely in a future
release.
Also add a couple of builds into build-many-glibcs.py.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Bump autoconf requirement to 2.71 to allow regenerating configure on
more recent distributions. autoconf 2.71 has been in Fedora since F36
and is the current version in Debian stable (bookworm). It appears to
be current in Gentoo as well.
All sysdeps configure and preconfigure scripts have also been
regenerated; all changes are trivial transformations that do not affect
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Add --enable-fortify-source option.
It is now possible to enable fortification through a configure option.
The level may be given as parameter, if none is provided, the configure
script will determine what is the highest level possible that can be set
considering GCC built-ins availability and set it.
If level is explicitly set to 3, configure checks if the compiler
supports the built-in function necessary for it or raise an error if it
isn't.
If the configure option isn't explicitly enabled, it _FORTIFY_SOURCE is
forcibly undefined (and therefore disabled).
The result of the configure checks are new variables, ${fortify_source}
and ${no_fortify_source} that can be used to appropriately populate
CFLAGS.
A dedicated patch will follow to make use of this variable in Makefiles
when necessary.
Updated NEWS and INSTALL.
Adding dedicated x86_64 variant that enables the configuration.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
This patch enables libmvec on AArch64. The proposed change is mainly
implementing build infrastructure to add the new routines to ABI,
tests and benchmarks. I have demonstrated how this all fits together
by adding implementations for vector cos, in both single and double
precision, targeting both Advanced SIMD and SVE.
The implementations of the routines themselves are just loops over the
scalar routine from libm for now, as we are more concerned with
getting the plumbing right at this point. We plan to contribute vector
routines from the Arm Optimized Routines repo that are compliant with
requirements described in the libmvec wiki.
Building libmvec requires minimum GCC 10 for SVE ACLE. To avoid raising
the minimum GCC by such a big jump, we allow users to disable libmvec
if their compiler is too old.
Note that at this point users have to manually call the vector math
functions. This seems to be acceptable to some downstream users.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
And make always supported. The configure option was added on glibc 2.25
and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and
lock elisition tuning). It also simplifies the build permutations.
Changes from v1:
* Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs
more discussion.
* Cleanup more code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years,
By using it multiple malloc tests fails:
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Now that there is no need to use a special linker script to hardening
internal data structures, remove the --with-default-link configure
option and associated definitions.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102.
Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking
of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works
again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file
is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init
suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore.
While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require
rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen
working), it is too drastic for stable release branches.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection. The
fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id
configure argument.
_dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init.
The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's
__libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the
ld.so namespace structure. This function pointer can then be called
directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed.
The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data
structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init
is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information
becomes available. (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up
in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.)
This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from
dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including
the initial executable loaded by the kernel. The lookup still happens
before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC
resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch.
The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because
so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation
(only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers).
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This is necessary to place the libio vtables into the RELRO segment.
New tests elf/tst-relro-ldso and elf/tst-relro-libc are added to
verify that this is what actually happens.
The new tests fail on ia64 due to lack of (default) RELRO support
inbutils, so they are XFAILed there.
Build glibc programs and tests as PIE by default and enable static-pie
automatically if the architecture and toolchain supports it.
Also add a new configuration option --disable-default-pie to prevent
building programs as PIE.
Only the following architectures now have PIE disabled by default
because they do not work at the moment. hppa, ia64, alpha and csky
don't work because the linker is unable to handle a pcrel relocation
generated from PIE objects. The microblaze compiler is currently
failing with an ICE. GNU hurd tries to enable static-pie, which does
not work and hence fails. All these targets have default PIE disabled
at the moment and I have left it to the target maintainers to enable PIE
on their targets.
build-many-glibcs runs clean for all targets. I also tested x86_64 on
Fedora and Ubuntu, to verify that the default build as well as
--disable-default-pie work as expected with both system toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
On Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptops, some test programs timeout when there
are 3 "make check -j8" runs in parallel. Add --with-timeoutfactor=NUM to
specify an integer to scale the timeout of test programs, which can be
overriden by TIMEOUTFACTOR environment variable.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Commit 68ab82f566 added support for the scv
syscall ABI on powerpc. Since then systems that have kernel and processor
support started using scv. However adding the proper support for a new syscall
ABI requires changes to several other projects (e.g. qemu, valgrind, strace,
kernel), which are gradually receiving support.
Meanwhile, having a way to disable scv on glibc at build time can be useful for
distros that may encounter conflicts with projects that still do not support the
scv ABI, buying time until proper support is added.
This commit adds a --disable-scv option that disables scv support and uses sc
for all syscalls, like before commit 68ab82f566.
Reviewed-by: Raphael M Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.ibm.com>
This patch is a test helper script to change Vector Length for child
process. This script can be used as test-wrapper for 'make check'.
Usage examples:
~/build$ make check subdirs=string \
test-wrapper='~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16'
~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 16 \
make test t=string/test-memcpy
~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 32 \
./debugglibc.sh string/test-memmove
~/build$ ~/glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vltest.py 64 \
./testrun.sh string/test-memset
This code adds new flag - '--allow-time-setting' to cross-test-ssh.sh
script to indicate if it is allowed to alter the date on the system
on which tests are executed. This change is supposed to be used with
test systems, which use virtual machines for testing.
The GLIBC_TEST_ALLOW_TIME_SETTING env variable is exported to the
remote environment on which the eligible test is run and brings no
functional change when it is not.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Most packages have been tested with their latest releases, except for
Python, whose latest version is 3.9.1.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This patch adds the configuration machinery to allow memory tagging to be
enabled from the command line via the configure option --enable-memory-tagging.
The current default is off, though in time we may change that once the API
is more stable.
GCC 6.5 fails to correctly build ldconfig with recent ld.so.cache
commits, e.g.:
785969a047
elf: Implement a string table for ldconfig, with tail merging
If glibc is build with gcc 6.5.0:
__builtin_add_overflow is used in
<glibc>/elf/stringtable.c:stringtable_finalize()
which leads to ldconfig failing with "String table is too large".
This is also recognizable in following tests:
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-glibc-hwcaps-prepend-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-X
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-bad-aux-cache
FAIL: elf/tst-ldconfig-ld_so_conf-update
FAIL: elf/tst-stringtable
See gcc "Bug 98269 - gcc 6.5.0 __builtin_add_overflow() with small
uint32_t values incorrectly detects overflow"
(https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98269)
Current systems do not have BSD terminals, so the fallback code in
posix_openpt/getpt does not do anything. Also remove the file system
check for /dev/pts. Current systems always have a devpts file system
mounted there if /dev/ptmx exists.
grantpt is now essentially a no-op. It only verifies that the
argument is a ptmx-descriptor. Therefore, this change indirectly
addresses bug 24941.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
this means that *always* libnsl is only built as shared library for
backward compatibility and the NSS modules libnss_nis and libnss_nisplus
are not built at all, libnsl's headers aren't installed.
This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs that have
been added in or before version 2.28.
Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>.
This change does not affect libnss_compat which does not depended
on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
libnsl code depends on Sun RPC, e.g. on --enable-obsolete-rpc (installed
libnsl headers use installed Sun RPC headers), which will be removed in
the following commit.
When CET is enabled, it is an error to dlopen a non CET enabled shared
library in CET enabled application. It may be desirable to make CET
permissive, that is disable CET when dlopening a non CET enabled shared
library. With the new --enable-cet=permissive configure option, CET is
disabled when dlopening a non CET enabled shared library.
Add DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL to config.h.in:
/* The default value of x86 CET control. */
#define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_elf_property
which enables CET features based on ELF property note.
--enable-cet=permissive it to
/* The default value of x86 CET control. */
#define DEFAULT_DL_X86_CET_CONTROL cet_permissive
which enables CET features permissively.
Update tst-cet-legacy-5a, tst-cet-legacy-5b, tst-cet-legacy-6a and
tst-cet-legacy-6b to check --enable-cet and --enable-cet=permissive.
GCC 7.5.0 (PR94200) will refuse to compile if both -mabi=% and
-mlong-double-128 are passed on the command line. Surprisingly,
it will work happily if the latter is not. For the sake of
maintaining status quo, test for and blacklist such compilers.
Tested with a GCC 8.3.1 and GCC 7.5.0 compiler for ppc64le.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
This is a small step up from 2.25 which brings in support for
rewriting the .gnu.attributes section of libc/libm.so.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
Add compiler feature tests to ensure we can build ieee128 long double.
These test for -mabi=ieeelongdouble, -mno-gnu-attribute, and -Wno-psabi.
Likewise, verify some compiler bugs have been addressed. These aren't
helpful for building glibc, but may cause test failures when testing
the new long double. See notes below from Raji.
On powerpc64le, some older compiler versions give error for the function
signbit() for 128-bit floating point types. This is fixed by PR83862
in gcc 8.0 and backported to gcc6 and gcc7. This patch adds a test
to check compiler version to avoid compiler errors during make check.
Likewise, test for -mno-gnu-attribute support which was
On powerpc64le, a few files are built on IEEE long double mode
(-mabi=ieeelongdouble), whereas most are built on IBM long double mode
(-mabi=ibmlongdouble, the default for -mlong-double-128). Since binutils
2.31, linking object files with different long double modes causes
errors similar to:
ld: libc_pic.a(s_isinfl.os) uses IBM long double,
libc_pic.a(ieee128-qefgcvt.os) uses IEEE long double.
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [../Makerules:649: libc_pic.os] Error 1
The warnings are fair and correct, but in order for glibc to have
support for both long double modes on powerpc64le, they have to be
ignored. This can be accomplished with the use of -mno-gnu-attribute
option when building the few files that require IEEE long double mode.
However, -mno-gnu-attribute is not available in GCC 6, the minimum
version required to build glibc, so this patch adds a test for this
feature in powerpc64le builds, and fails early if it's not available.
Co-Authored-By: Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan <raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Gabriel F. T. Gomes <gabrielftg@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
Commit 2d6ab5df3b ("Document and fix
--enable-bind-now [BZ #21015]") extended BIND_NOW to all installed
shared objects. This change also covers installed programs.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
As discussed during development for glibc 2.29, when we increased the
required minimum GCC version for building glibc to GCC 5, working
purely based on the times at which such requirements have been
increased in the past it would be appropriate for glibc 2.30 to
require GCC 6 (matching GCC 4.9 having been required for glibc 2.26).
Naming 6.2 specifically as the minimum version then means a separate
version requirement no longer needs to be specified for powerpc64le.
Thus, this patch increases the minimum to 6.2, removing the
documentation of the separate requirement for powerpc64le. It does
not remove the powerpc64le configure test, or any __GNUC_PREREQ that
could be removed as not being in installed headers or files shared
with gnulib; I think such cleanups are best done separately.
Tested for x86_64.
* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 6.2 or later.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
version.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29.
* manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more
names.
* manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages
tested.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
We know that building glibc with GCC 4.9 is broken on various
platforms (bug 23993). As it's more than a year since we last
increased the minimum GCC version to build glibc, this patch changes
the requirement to be GCC 5 or later (indeed, based on 4.9 having been
required for building 2.26, it would be consistent in terms of timing
to require GCC 6 or later from the 2.30 release onwards). It
deliberately just updates the configure test and corresponding
documentation, leaving removal of no-longer-needed __GNUC_PREREQ tests
for a separate patch.
In the NEWS entry, the requirement for a newer GCC version for
powerpc64le is reiterated (as in the entry for the 4.9 requirement in
2.26) to avoid suggesting the version requirement there has gone down.
(If that version goes up further as part of support for binary128 long
double, of course the wording would change at that time.)
Tested for x86_64.
[BZ #23993]
* configure.ac (libc_cv_compiler_ok): Require GCC 5 or later.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Update minimum GCC
version.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
This patch makes Python 3.4 or later a required tool for building
glibc, so allowing changes of awk, perl etc. code used in the build
and test to Python code without any such changes needing makefile
conditionals or to handle older Python versions.
This patch makes the configure test for Python check the version and
give an error if Python is missing or too old, and removes makefile
conditionals that are no longer needed. It does not itself convert
any code from another language to Python, and does not remove any
compatibility with older Python versions from existing scripts.
Tested for x86_64.
* configure.ac (PYTHON_PROG): Use AC_CHECK_PROG_VER. Set
critic_missing for versions before 3.4.
* configure: Regenerated.
* manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document
requirement for Python to build glibc.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
* Rules [PYTHON]: Make code unconditional.
* benchtests/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* conform/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* manual/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
* math/Makefile [PYTHON]: Likewise.
