From patchwork Mon Nov 30 15:56:29 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Paul Zimmermann X-Patchwork-Id: 41235 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@sourceware.org Delivered-To: patchwork@sourceware.org Received: from server2.sourceware.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CF9A389200D; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:56:33 +0000 (GMT) X-Original-To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Delivered-To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D3973385802D for ; Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:56:30 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org D3973385802D Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=inria.fr Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.78,382,1599516000"; d="scan'208";a="480272345" Received: from tomate.loria.fr (HELO tomate) ([152.81.10.51]) by mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 30 Nov 2020 16:56:29 +0100 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:56:29 +0100 Message-Id: From: Paul Zimmermann To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: [PATCH] fixed typos in "NEWS for version 2.32" (v2) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, GIT_PATCH_0, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: fweimer@redhat.com Errors-To: libc-alpha-bounces@sourceware.org Sender: "Libc-alpha" Hi, I resubmit that patch to the list since the original mail (patch 40224) was ill-formed. Hopefully this one will be good. Florian, please could you confirm your positive review, so that I can push it using git-pw? Paul --- NEWS | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2937adc3f3..ddbf6c0801 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ Major new features: - arc-linux-gnuhf - arceb-linux-gnu - The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use + The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default). * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable. * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when - using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC + using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing this option. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Major new features: several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This should help GCC 10 issue better warnings. -* On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and +* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create. @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@ Major new features: libpthread. * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The - sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP) - while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g - "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not + sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for + SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number + (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both functions return NULL for an invalid signal number. @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ Major new features: are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions. * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The - strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while - strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number + strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) + while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror, strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both functions return NULL for an invalid error number. @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are available from . This change does not - affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl + affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS. * The deprecated header and the sysctl function have been @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations - have been removed from from . They are exported solely as + have been removed from . They are exported solely as compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use strerror or strerror_r instead.