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commit ee9247c38a8def24a59eb5cfb7196a98bef8cfdc
Author: Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 30 08:27:06 2012 -0700

    Update NEWS and README.
    
    Final update for 2.16 release.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e59ed6c..75dea02 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-06-30  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Update copyright. Remove last-updated date.
+	Mention math library bug fixes and timezone data changes.
+	* README: Mention GNU/Hurd, x32, and HPPA support status.
+
 2012-06-28  Thomas Schwinge  <thomas@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Sort alphabetically by last name.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a9500fa..a90d955 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2012-1-27
-Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
@@ -123,6 +123,17 @@ Version 2.16
   what x86-64 configurations install.  These same header files can be used
   for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
   Contributed by H.J. Lu.
+
+* Math library bug fixes.  A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
+  conducted by Joseph Myers.  Significant progress was made on many math
+  library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
+  Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
+  patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
+
+* Timezone data is no longer installed.  Timezone-related binaries and scripts
+  will continue to be installed.  Users should obtain their timezone data from
+  their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
+  <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
 
 Version 2.15
 
@@ -2087,7 +2098,7 @@ Version 1.04
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Copyright information:
 
-Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
    of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
diff --git a/README b/README
index a479b55..1e2e3ba 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
 In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
 
 The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
-GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu.
+GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[34567]86-*-gnu.  The current
+GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be
+incorporated into an official GNU C Library release.
 
 When working with Linux kernels, the GNU C Library version from
 version 2.4 on is intended primarily for use with Linux kernel version
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ installed for the pthread library to work correctly.
 The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
 
 	i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
-	x86_64-*-linux-gnu
+	x86_64-*-linux-gnu	Can build either x86_64 or x32
 	powerpc-*-linux-gnu	Hardware floating point required
 	powerpc64-*-linux-gnu
 	s390-*-linux-gnu
@@ -52,7 +54,7 @@ Currently these configurations have code in the `ports' add-on:
 	alpha*-*-linux-gnu	Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
 	am33*-*-linux-gnu	Not currently functional
 	arm-*-linux-gnueabi	Requires Linux 2.6.16-rc1 or newer for NPTL
-	hppa-*-linux-gnu	Requires Linux 2.6.9 or newer for NPTL
+	hppa-*-linux-gnu	Not currently functional without patches.
 	ia64-*-linux-gnu
 	m68k-*-linux-gnu
 	mips-*-linux-gnu	Requires Linux 2.6.12 or newer for NPTL

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog |    6 ++++++
 NEWS      |   17 ++++++++++++++---
 README    |    8 +++++---
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


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