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Re: Proposed glibc BoF at GNU Cauldron 2014.
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:37:06 -0200
- Subject: Re: Proposed glibc BoF at GNU Cauldron 2014.
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On 14-01-2014 13:44, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
>
> I've proposed a glibc BoF at this years GNU Cauldron 2014 [1]:
>
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Cauldron%202014
> ~~~
> The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU systems
> and most systems with the Linux kernel. The library is
> primarily designed to be a portable and high performance C
> library.It follows all relevant standards including ISO C11
> and POSIX.1-2008. It is also internationalized and has one of
> the most complete internationalization interfaces known.
>
> This BOF aims to bring together developers of other components
> that have dependencies on glibc and glibc developers to talk
> about the following topics:
>
> * Planning for glibc 2.21 and what work needs to be done
> between the August -> January 2015 timeframe.
>
> * Infrastructure
> - The sysdeps sorting issues.
> - The abilist issue (raised recently when IBM wanted
> to add ppc64le support).
>
> * Testing
> - Testing in chroots.
>
> * Performance?
> - Status of microbenchmarks?
>
> * libm
> - Status of alternate libm implementations.
> - Planning work against gcc requirements.
>
> * Tuning the C library?
> - Status of review of existing usage of env vars.
> - Status of work to bring together tunnables internally.
>
> * POSIX conformance
> - Cancellation discussions.
>
> * IPv4 and IPv6
> - Next steps to solve more getaddrinfo problems.
> ~~~
>
> If you want to add agenda items please feel free to edit the page.
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
>
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2014
>
I think a good topic would be current status of malloc and recent discussions.