glibc/PROJECTS
Roland McGrath 0200214b28 Tue May 28 04:38:10 1996 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* limits.h: Change MB_LEN_MAX to 6.  A 31-bit ISO 10646
	character in UTF-8 encoding has that many bytes.

	* locale/langinfo.h: New element _NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX.
	* locale/categories.def: Add description of field _NL_CTYPE_MB_CUR_MAX.
	* locale/Makefile (routines): Add mb_cur_max.
	* locale/mb_cur_max.c: New file.  This function gets called
	when the macro MB_CUR_MAX is used.
	* locale/C-ctype.c: Initialize new mb_cur_max field.
	* locale/localeinfo.h: Change magic value because of incompatible
        change.
	* locale/programs/ld-ctype.c: Determine value of mb_cur_max
        according to current character set and write it out with the rest.
	* stdlib/stdlib.h (MB_CUR_MAX): Not constant anymore.  Get value
        according to currently used locale for catefory LC_CTYPE by
        calling the function __ctype_get_mb_cur_max.

Tue May 28 03:27:46 1996  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* FAQ:  Fix some typos.
	Tell that for Linux the kernel header files are necessary.

	* PROJECTS: New file.  List of open jobs for glibc.
	* Makefile (distribute): Add PROJECTS.

	* crypt/GNUmakefile (headers): New variable.  Mention crypt.h.
	* crypt/crypt.h: Header for crypt functions.

	* elf/elf.h: Add some new constants from recent Cygnus ELF
	header files.

	* login/getutid_r.c: Test for correct type.
	Don't depend on ut_type and ut_id unless _HAVE_UT_TYPE and
	_HAVE_UT_ID resp. are defined.
	Make really compliant with specification.

	* login/getutline_r.c, login/pututline_r.c: Don't depend on
	ut_type and ut_id unless _HAVE_UT_TYPE and _HAVE_UT_ID resp. are
	defined.
	Make really compliant with specification.

	* login/setutent_r.c: Don't depend on ut_type and ut_id unless
	_HAVE_UT_TYPE and _HAVE_UT_ID resp. are defined.

	* login/login.c, login/logout.c, login/logwtmp.c: Complete
	rewrite.  Now based on getut*/setut* functions.

	* stdlib/strtol.c: Undo changes of Wed May 22 01:48:54 1996.
	This prevented using this file in other GNU packages.

	* sysdeps/gnu/utmpbits.h: Define _HAVE_UT_TYPE, _HAVE_UT_ID,
	and _HAVE_UT_TV because struct utmp has these members.

	* sysdeps/libm-i387/e_exp.S: Correct exp(+-Inf) case.

	* utmp.h: New file.  Wrapper around login/utmp.h.

	* elf/dl-error.c (struct catch): New type.
	(catch): New static variable, struct catch *.
	(catch_env, signalled_errstring, signalled_objname): Variables removed.
	(_dl_signal_error): If CATCH is non-null, set its errstring and
	objname members and jump to CATCH->env.  If it is null, call
	_dl_sysdep_fatal with a standard message.
	* elf/rtld.c (dl_main): Explode `doit' function into dl_main's body.
	No longer use _dl_catch_error.
1996-05-29 04:48:04 +00:00

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Open jobs for finishing GNU libc:
---------------------------------
Status: May 1996
If you have time and talent to take over any of the jobs below please
contact <bug-glibc@prep.ai.mit.edu>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[ 1] Port to new platforms or test current version on formerly supported
platforms.
[ 2] Test compliance with standards. If you have access to recent
standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, X/Open, ...) and/or test suites you
could do some checks as the goal is to be compliant with all
standards if they do not contradict each other.
[ 3] Write translations for the GNU libc message for the so far
unsupported languages. GNU libc is fully internationalized and
users can immediately benefit from this.
Take a look at the matrix in
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ABOUT-NLS
for the current status (of course better use a mirror of prep).
[ 4] Write wordexp() function; this is described in POSIX.2, The
header <wordexp.h> already exists.
Implementation idea: use some functions from bash.
[ 5] Write reentrent versions of crypt() et.al.
Implementation idea: Define in <crypt.h>
struct crypt_data
{
<... all the needed data ...>
};
and define additional functions
char *crypt_r (__const char *__key, __const char *__salt,
struct crypt_data *__data);
void setkey_r (__const char *__key, struct crypt_data *__data);
void encrypt_r (char *__block, int __edflag,
struct crypt_data *__data);
If possible the non-reentrent functions should use the reentrent
ones.
Because of the US export restrictions it might be a good idea if
some non-american person does this job.
[ 6] Write `long double' versions of the math functions. This should be
done in collaboration with the NetBSD and FreeBSD people.
The libm is in fact fdlibm (not the same as in Linux libc).
[ 7] If you enjoy assembler programming (as I do --drepper :-) you might
be interested in writing optimized versions for some functions.
Especially the string handling functions can be optimized a lot.
Take a look at
Faster String Functions
Henry Spencer, University of Toronto
Usenix Winter '92, pp. 419--428
or just ask. Currently mostly i?86 optimized versions exist.
[ 8] Write nftw() function. Perhaps it might be good to reimplement the
ftw() function as well to share most of the code.
[ 9] Write AVL-tree based tsearch() et.al. functions. Currently only
a very simple algorithm is used.
[10] Extend regex and/or rx to work with wide characters.
[11] Add mmap() support to malloc().
Doug Lea's malloc implementation might give some ideas. Perhaps
switching completly to his implementation is an option if it
a) can work without mmap() support (not all system GNU libc
is running on have mmap)
b) is without mmap support at least as fast as the current
implementation
c) will be extended with the current hooks and additional functions