List of known bugs (certainly very incomplete)
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-Time-stamp: <1999-12-31T14:42:14-0800 drepper>
+Time-stamp: <2007-10-27 18:37:51 drepper>
This following list contains those bugs which I'm aware of. Please
make sure that bugs you report are not listed here. If you can fix one
Another source of information about bugs is the problem data base of the
GNU project. There is an easy to use WWW interface available at
- http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl
+ http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
-I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was not
-reported before by looking through the database. To make the information
-in this database as useful as possible please report bugs always using the
-`glibcbug' shell script which gets installed with GNU libc. Before reporting
-a bug please check the FAQ since it discusses also a lot of problematic
-situations.
+I would appreciate it very much if you could verify the problem was
+not reported before by looking through the database. Before reporting
+a bug please check the FAQ since it discusses also a lot of
+problematic situations.
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[ **] Closing shared objects in statically linked binaries most of the
times leads to crashes during the dlopen(). Hard to fix.
-[ **] There are problems with signal handling when using LinuxThreads.
-
[ **] The RPC code is not 64 bit clean. This is getting slowly fixed
but expect incompatible changes on 64 bit platforms like Alpha.
[ *] The libm-ieee `scalb' function gives wrong results for
non-integral second parameters.
-[ *] Collation symbol and equivalence class handling in regex are not
- yet 100% correct.
- - [. .] at end of a range does not work
- - [. .] and [= =] do not handle collating symbols (where a symbol
- stands for multiple character) and multibyte character in
- general not correctly.
+[ *] Several (most?) collation specifications are broken. The code which
+ is currently there is in most cases inherited from the originial
+ author (in case there is a LC_COLLATE specification in the locale
+ file) or is defined using the default (if iso14651_t1 is included).
- This is *extremely* hard to fix since regex has to be rewritten
- completely.
+ In any case we are missing information to correct the specification.
+ If you find the specification for your language be faulty please
+ send a report with instruction on what to fix. You don't have to
+ fix the specification yourself.
-[ *] The regex implementation has various other problems, like limitations
- of the expression size etc.
+ The way it finally should look like (if the generic specification
+ is not correct) can be seen in the sv_SE file. Quite a few changes
+ on top of the generic specification can be made without duplication
+ of the whole LC_COLLATE description.
- None of these can be fixed without a rewrite.
+[ *] Some of the functions which also handled IPv6 are currently broken.
+ IPv6 and IPv4 lookups occasionally happen when not needed. This
+ happens in getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo(). IPv4 handling of
+ these functions is OK though and there are patches available to fix
+ the IPv6 code as well.
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Ulrich Drepper
-drepper@cygnus.com
+drepper@redhat.com
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