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| Many bugs have been fixed since the last release. |
| Some bugs surely remain. |
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| As of this release, the GNU C library has been ported to the following |
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| i386-bsd4.3 |
| i386-force_cpu386-none |
| i386-gnu (for Hurd development only) |
| i386-isc2.2 |
| i386-isc3 |
| i386-sco3.2 |
| i386-sco3.2v4 |
| i386-sequent-bsd |
| i386-sysv |
| i386-sysv4 |
| i960-nindy960-none |
| m68k-hp-bsd4.3 |
| m68k-mvme135-none |
| m68k-mvme136-none |
| m68k-sony-newsos3 |
| m68k-sony-newsos4 |
| m68k-sun-sunos4 |
| mips-dec-ultrix4 |
| mips-sgi-irix4 |
| sparc-sun-solaris2 |
| sparc-sun-sunos4 |
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| Porting the library is not hard. If you are interested in doing a port, |
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| The GNU C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which |
| provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points. |
| Because of the United States export restriction on DES implementations, |
| we are distributing this code separately from the rest of the C |
| library. There is an extra distribution tar file just for crypt; it is |
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| the GNU C library. |
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| The GNU C Library is completely documented by the Texinfo manual found |
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| contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not have |
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