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Re: Misc patches for glibc


> 
> On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:40:11 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
> >I think we should undo the timespec change. I now believe it is
> >a VSX-PCT bug. Also we should only use union in struct sigaction
> >when __USE_POSIX199309 is defined. Also, I am not sure if we
> >should expose "pselect" when __USE_POSIX is defined. I changed
> >it to __USE_MISC. Maybe we should add __USE_POSIX1g.
> 
> I have to wonder if we should be mucking with something as fragile as
> feature select macros while in codefreeze and based on a buggy
> testsuite.  It's not like this stuff is _used_ by very many people.
> It'd be nice to claim perfect conformance to standards X, Y, Z,
> ... but we *already* do better than any commercial Unix, and 2.1 final

Well, you may not say it for VSX-PCT. It does pick out quite a few
bugs in glibc.

> is practically here.
> 
> For 2.2 I have some ideas how to  clean up the whole feature selection
> mess, but right now maybe we should let it alone.
> 

glibc 2.1 will be used for a long time. I'd like to see it pass
VSX-PCT.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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