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EGLIBC 2.9 Branch Created

There is now an EGLIBC branch based on GLIBC 2.9.

MIPS non-PIC Support

EGLIBC trunk now includes support for MIPS binaries built as non-position-independent code (non-PIC). GCC 4.4 and Binutils 2.19 will support building such non-PIC binaries, which are smaller and faster than the PIC binaries previously used on MIPS GNU/Linux. The non-PIC support has been contributed by CodeSourcery and Richard Sandiford, implementing an ABI extension developed in conjunction with MIPS Technologies, Inc.

EGLIBC 2.8 Branch Created

There is now an EGLIBC branch based on GLIBC 2.8.

New Member: MIPS Technologies, Inc.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. has joined the EGLIBC Consortium.

MIPS Prelinker Support

Richard Sandiford (of CodeSourcery) has contributed support for the GNU/Linux prelinker running on MIPS targets to the EGLIBC 2.5 branch.

Cross-Build and Cross-Test Support

Jim Blandy (of CodeSourcery) has contributed support for cross-building and cross-testing EGLIBC. For more information, see:

• Cross-Build Instructions
• Cross-Test Instructions

Support for Freescale E500 Processors

Joseph Myers (of CodeSourcery) has contributed support for the E500 variant of the PowerPC architecture. This message has additional details about this improvement.

Software Floating-Point Support for the Power Architecture

EGLIBC now supports software floating-point on the PowerPC architecture.

Cross-Locale Support

EGLIBC now supports building locale files when cross-compiling, even if the host system is not running the GNU/Linux operating system.