[ol7_latest_archive] glibc-utils-2.17-196.el7_4.2.x86_64

The glibc-utils package contains memusage, a memory usage profiler,
mtrace, a memory leak tracer and xtrace, a function call tracer
which can be helpful during program debugging.

If unsure if you need this, don't install this package.

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• Wed Nov 22 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-196.2

  - Update HWCAP bits for IBM POWER9 DD2.1 (#1515114)
  - Improve memcpy performance for POWER9 DD2.1 (#1516402)

• Tue Nov 14 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-196.1

  - x86-64: Use XSAVE/XSAVEC in the ld.so trampoline (#1513070)

• Fri Jun 16 2017 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-196

  - Avoid large allocas in the dynamic linker (#1452721)

• Fri Jun 09 2017 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-195

  - Rounding issues on POWER (#1457177)

• Wed Apr 26 2017 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-194

  - Use a built-in list of system call names (#1439165)

• Tue Apr 18 2017 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-193

  - Inhibit FMA while compiling sqrt, pow (#1413638)

• Wed Mar 29 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-192

  - Exclude lock elision support for older Intel hardware with
    Intel TSX that has hardware errata (#841653).

• Tue Mar 28 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-191

  - Add transparent lock elision for default POSIX mutexes on
    IBM POWER hardware with support for IBM POWER HTM (#731835).

• Tue Mar 28 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-190

  - Add transparent lock elision for default POSIX mutexes on
    Intel hardware with support for Intel TSX (#841653).
  - Update dynamic loader trampoline for Intel Skylake server (#1421155).

• Wed Mar 15 2017 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-189

  - Update dynamic loader trampoline for Intel SSE, AVX, and AVX512 usage (#1421155)