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Re: ABI freeze for GLIBC_2.4
- From: Dwayne Grant McConnell <decimal at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:12:04 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: ABI freeze for GLIBC_2.4
- References: <20060104203000.8115D180988@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Roland McGrath wrote:
> There are a few items not yet in the tree that I expect to be added before
> the hard ABI freeze. These are:
> * long double type switchover for ppc, sparc32, alpha, s390, others(?)
> Patches for this are around and need to be updated and merged, and I've
> committed to helping with that soon. Each and every architecture
> maintainer should check that the long double type is defined in the most
> desireable way on their architecture and that the gcc and glibc support
> is aligned. We will not be happy about doing this again later for other
> machines.
Are there specific items I can do to help with ppc[64]?
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