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  1. TODO list for the uClibc 0.9.29 release:
  2. -------------------------------------------------
  3. *) cleanup fallout from hidden_proto() updates
  4. *) misc stdio bugs:
  5. http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=420
  6. http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=539
  7. *) bug in getopt handling:
  8. http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=61
  9. http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2006-January/013851.html
  10. *) Audit header files. Remove prototypes for all functions that
  11. are not supported -- especially needed for the libm headers.
  12. *) Audit header files. When options are disabled, also disable
  13. them in the include files as well by checking for the proper
  14. define from include/bits/uClibc_config.h (pulled in from features.h)
  15. *) Test cris, i386, mips, mipsel, sh, x86_64, arm, armeb, and powerpc
  16. with the latest LTP testsuite. Fix any regressions and post LTP
  17. testsuite results for each architecture on uclibc.org.
  18. *) Fix it so valgrind 2.4.0 no longer complains about the memory mmaped
  19. and used by ldso. Currently it whines on basically about virtually
  20. every function call when doing default lazy binding, which makes its
  21. output virtually useless due to the excess noise.
  22. *) Change all references to the older "Library GPL" to the "Lesser GPL"
  23. and update COPYING.LIB to LGPL version 2.1.
  24. *) vapier todo: finish new linuxthreads import
  25. *) Split up all conflicting MSRC files to allow IMA compiling
  26. *) Correct the dependencies in the build system
  27. TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release:
  28. -------------------------------------------------
  29. *) Hide uClibc internal symbols from our exported namespace.
  30. *) Explicity add some sortof CONFIG_LINUX_2_2_ABI, CONFIG_LINUX_2_4_ABI
  31. and CONFIG_LINUX_2_6_ABI type options, rather than having the abi
  32. depend on the selected set of kernel headers. This will likely also
  33. require that we provide a set of kernel headers (probably a derivitive
  34. of Mazur's linux-libc-headers) that can supplies the 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6
  35. kernel abi.
  36. *) Documentation updates:
  37. *) Write a uClibc HOWTO document
  38. *) Update README document
  39. *) Update INSTALL document
  40. *) Update docs/Glibc_vs_uClibc_Differences.txt document
  41. and fully document all differences between the feature
  42. set of uClibc and glibc.
  43. *) Update docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt document
  44. *) Update docs/threads.txt document
  45. *) Write man pages for ldd and ldconfig utility binaries
  46. *) Implement some mechanism (perhaps encoded in the .so name,
  47. perhaps using an abi tag magically embedded into each object)
  48. for flagging config options that break the ABI. Options
  49. such as UCLIBC_HAS_SOFT_FLOAT, UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS, UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE,
  50. and perhaps others (finalize list) produce a lib with a differing
  51. ABI. Make it so apps cannot use an ABI mis-matched uClibc.
  52. This is most easily done using symbol versioning...
  53. *) Implement the long double versions of math funcs
  54. using wrappers on top of the double versions (size / precision
  55. trade off where size clearly wins).
  56. *) Make all small objects (>~50 bytes) into either inlines or
  57. into a static library
  58. *) Cleanup / rewrite sysconf.c. It should get some information
  59. from ldso (such as HZ). Other stuff it currently just makes
  60. up, which is obviously wrong. Also bits/uClibc_clk_tck.h
  61. needs to be updated at the same time to get proper HZ values.
  62. *) poll emulation using select() for old 2.0.x uClinux kernels
  63. in libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c fails some python self-tests.
  64. Of course, modern systems using the actuall poll() syscall work fine.
  65. *) Rework the build system Makefile to eliminate recursive make.
  66. *) Build both pic and non-pic objects where appropriate, so that
  67. static libs need not pay the pic size penalty.
  68. *) Cleanup/scrub all the Makefile copyright junk
  69. *) Fix dlopen, for both static and dynamic cases, and make it
  70. fully comply with SuSv3
  71. *) From the the ELF spec "...All shared object initializations happen
  72. before the executable file gains control. ... Before the initialization
  73. code for any object A is called, the initialization code for any other
  74. objects that object A depends on are called. For these purposes, an object
  75. A depends on another object B, if B appears in Ads list of needed objects
  76. (recorded in the DT_NEEDED entries of the dynamic structure). The order of
  77. initialization for circular dependencies is undefined." uClibc's shared
  78. lib loader should be fixed to run ctors in the specified order.
  79. TODO list for AFTER the uClibc 1.0.0 release:
  80. -------------------------------------------------
  81. *) Add support for Linux 2.6.x NPTL pthreads, futexes, etc
  82. *) Add support for Linux 2.6.x fast vsyscalls
  83. *) Enable pristine source tree builds
  84. *) Fix regex so it isn't so stinking big
  85. *) Fix glob so it isn't so stinking big
  86. *) run 'nm -D --size-sort -t d libuClibc-0.9.26.so' and work on the
  87. biggest things (i.e. stuff at the end of the list) to make
  88. them smaller.
  89. <more wishlist items here>
  90. Arch specific TODO:
  91. -------------------------------------------------
  92. alpha:
  93. _init/_fini hangs signal-ed (assert test)
  94. output from cloned children seems funky (unistd/clone test)
  95. ldso is not implemented
  96. arm:
  97. update crt1 code again for nommu (http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=538)
  98. recruit jbowler and integrate thumb support
  99. m68k:
  100. ldso lazy relocation doesnt work
  101. mips:
  102. brk/pipe fixes: http://www.uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2006-January/013824.html
  103. http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=469
  104. sparc:
  105. need a sigaction.c since common one doesnt work (signal tests)
  106. ldso needs to be updated since it's totally broken atm
  107. x86_64:
  108. pthread isn't working really at all (pthreads tests)
  109. vax:
  110. pthread support, linktime warning support (implies GAS patches),
  111. general touchups, testing, ldso.
  112. bfin cris rfv sh64:
  113. need to be updated to new ldso changes and unification of the
  114. two uClibc_main funcs (__uClibc_start_main doesnt exist anymore)
  115. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  116. Manuel's todo:
  117. 1) Little things that need fixing:
  118. ----------------------------------
  119. a) Fix bug in *printf: outdigit precison bug
  120. b) Check that gnu/bsd extension members tm_gmtoff and tm_zone in struct tm
  121. are respected where they should be.
  122. c) Implement the obstack printf funcs for glibc compat.
  123. d) Implement glibc 'a' flag for scanf string conversions.
  124. e) Allow use of the older non-table-based ctype functions when using
  125. stub locale support. (smaller)
  126. 2) Additional str{f|p}time issues.
  127. ----------------------------------
  128. a) Spacing issue wrt strptime.
  129. b) Support locale specific alternate digits. (data is in place)
  130. c) Support locale era in year designations. (data is in place)
  131. d) Deal with mb format string issues in strftime.
  132. e) Implement wcsftime.
  133. 3) Other locale issues (my implementation):
  134. -------------------------------------------
  135. a) Do a little more clean up of ctype and wctype.
  136. b) Rework of the locale data organization to make using locales reasonable
  137. when staticly linking. (mmap)
  138. c) Rewrite the locale data generation tools to process the text specifications
  139. rather than relying on glibc.
  140. d) Adapt regex lib to use my collation data and add the necessary collating
  141. item tables to support SUSv3 required features.
  142. e) transliteration of unsupported wchars in 8-bit locales (like glibc).
  143. f) Support ISO/IEC 14652 draft locale extensions (LC_PAPER, etc).
  144. g) Implement strfrom.
  145. h) Shift-state codeset locale support?
  146. 4) Misc:
  147. --------
  148. a) Port uClibc to other OSs (including elks), or even bare metal (libgloss).
  149. b) Write a space-efficient gettext substitute, to avoid storing large amounts
  150. of redundant data.