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Re: glibc 2.24 --- Hard freeze starting


Hi,

On 2016-07-14 15:35, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> Maintainers,
> 
> We are now in hard freeze as stated last week (with to days off due some
> recent fixes).  As before, please keep your commits minimal, documentation
> changes only, simple bug fixes, and no translatable strings.
> 
> Please start test your machines, refresh the ULP files and update the 
> release page [2].
> 
> Current I see that we have 3 blockers:
> 
> 1. [BZ #13165] New condition variable: Torvalds, I think you the most
>    qualified to give us if you think or not this change is safe enough
>    for 2.24 inclusion or if you prefer to commit in start of 2.25. I do
>    not have a strong opinion.
> 
> 2. malloc: Remove malloc_get_state, malloc_set_state: based on recent build
>    issues with malloc hook change, I would suggest to move this change to
>    2.25.
> 
> 3. [PATCH] Fix cos computation for multiple precision fallback (bz #20357):
>    I plan to review this patch today or tomorrow, but this its straightforward
>    and contained enough so we can commit.  The only issue I see the possible
>    need of ULP regeneration in some architectures, so ideally we should push
>    this by the end of this week.
> 
> About the security bugs to news, the only one that is not documented in NEWS
> is BZ#19755 [4].  My understanding is this does not have a CVE assigned, so
> should we still explicit add it on NEWS?
> 
> Any other blockers and/or comments?

Do you think we can get the following patch in this release? It's not
strictly speaking a regression, but I guess more and more people are
going to switch to GCC 6 in the next months.

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00440.html

Aurelien

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