Re: Code freeze for glibc-2.20

["Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Joseph S. Myers
> <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, Allan McRae wrote:
> >
> >> Architecture maintainers, please report your build status on the wiki
> >> page [1].
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Allan
> >>
> >> [1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.20
> >
> > And don't list things as architecture-independent without sufficient
> > analysis to show that they are, or to describe the conditions under which
> > they are seen.  Carlos, it seems you moved some conform/ test failures for
> > semaphore.h, cpio.h and fmtmsg.h from AArch64 to architecture-independent
> > (wiki page revision 22, 15 July).  I don't see those failures on x86_64.
> > Please move them back to the AArch64 section or add a description of the
> > conditions the architecture should satisfy to get those failures ("uses
> > generic version of header X" or similar) - or, better, fix them.
> 
> This is listed as an AArch64 GCC bug on that page -
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61441 . Is it really that
> you don't see this failure on other architectures ?

I don't see how that GCC bug is supposed to relate to the conform/ tests 
that Carlos listed as architecture-independent and that I don't think are 
architecture-independent.  I also don't know what glibc failures you may 
be suggesting have some relation to that GCC bug.

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Joseph S. Myers
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