glibc 2.3.1

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to

ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/releases/

The files will soon also be available at

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/

and the mirrors worldwide.

This releases is mainly meant to introduce some changes which work around problems some programs have which use very small stack sizes and still expect all libc functions to be usable. Beside this change only very few, mostly non-code, changes are included. Every user of glibc 2.3 should upgrade.

As usual, compiling glibc is nothing for the faint hearted. It is complicated and demanding and can potentially ruin your entire installation. Better wait for your distribution maker to provide you with binaries. People who nevertheless compile glibc on their own have to read the documentation, FAQ, and the announcement for the 2.3 release:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-10/msg00048.html

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This is a trivial patch for the inlined i386 strings' header. Without it, say, X11 can't be compiled with -D__USE_STRING_INLINES - a problems will be caused by XtNewString and X11's own bzero. These problems are cured by the first and the second chunks of the patch, correspondingly.

So, please, apply this.

@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@
 
 /* The macros are used in some of the optimized implementations below.  */
 #define __STRING_SMALL_GET16(src, idx) \
-  (((src)[idx + 1] << 8) | (src)[idx])
+  ((((char*)(src))[idx + 1] << 8) | ((char*)(src))[idx])
 #define __STRING_SMALL_GET32(src, idx) \
-  ((((src)[idx + 3] << 8 | (src)[idx + 2]) << 8				      \
-    | (src)[idx + 1]) << 8 | (src)[idx])
+  (((((char*)(src))[idx + 3] << 8 | ((char*)(src))[idx + 2]) << 8	      \
+    | ((char*)(src))[idx + 1]) << 8 | ((char*)(src))[idx])
 
 
 /* Copy N bytes of SRC to DEST.  */

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ memcmp (__const void *__s1, __const void
 	assignments using immediate operands.  But this uses to much	      \
 	memory (7, instead of 4 bytes).  So we force the value in a	      \
 	registers.  */							      \
-     if (n == 3 || n >= 5)						      \
+     if ((n) == 3 || (n) >= 5)						      \
        __asm__ __volatile__ ("" : "=r" (__c) : "0" (__c));		      \
 									      \
      /* This `switch' statement will be removed at compile-time.  */	      \