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Re: glibc 2.28 release on August 1st and extended ABI freeze for ppc64le float128.
Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho wrote:
>
>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>>
>> > * Carlos O'Donell:
>> >
>> >> I'm willing to extend the ABI/API freeze to July 13th for the ppc64le
>> >> float128 changes, to allow those to go into the glibc 2.28 release.
>> >
>> > Do you expect these changes to be specific to the ppc64le ABI, or
>> > might there be impact on other ABIs?
>>
>> They're all specific to the ppc64le ABI.
>
> Handling float128 for argp.h, err.h and error.h functions, while keeping
> using the same machinery for header redirections for both float128 long
> double and -mlong-double-64 and keeping the machinery as consistent as
> possible between different headers, means that all ldbl-opt platforms will
> get new symbols __nldbl_argp_error, __nldbl_argp_failure, __nldbl_warn,
> __nldbl_vwarn, __nldbl_warnx, __nldbl_vwarnx, __nldbl_err, __nldbl_verr,
> __nldbl_errx, __nldbl_verrx, __nldbl_error, __nldbl_error_at_line.
> (These are the functions I know about that were missed when the ldbl-opt
> machinery was originally set up, but I don't guarantee that list is
> complete.) Thus, as well as powerpc64le, all other powerpc systems are
> affected, as are alpha, s390 and 32-bit sparc.
Indeed. I didn't take that into account.
Thanks!
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Tulio Magno