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GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM

Posted by timothy on from the well-armed-society dept.

hypnosec writes "A new version of GNU C Library (glibc) has been released and with this new version comes support for the upcoming 64-bit ARM architecture a.k.a. AArch64. Version 2.17 of glibc not only includes support for ARM, it also comes with better support for cross-compilation and testing; optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp for System z10 and zEnterprise z196; and optimized version of string functions, on top of some quite a few other performance improvements, states the mailing list release announcement. Glibc v 2.17 can be used with a minimum Linux kernel version 2.6.16."

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  1. Christ... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was greatly anticipating this, and when the box arrived from RMS Labs, I eagerly opened the box. Immediately, I noticed everything was covered with what looked like beard hair, but might have been pubic hair. And the fleas. Jesus, the fleas...

    Never again, at least when I open a Microsoft shrink-wrap, there is no hair - bald, if you will - and it only smells faintly of flatulence.

    I haven't yet tried Ubuntu, but I hear they ship with a small square of South African hash.

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    1. Re:Christ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The hash square gets smaller every release, but at least you get two of them with an LTS release.