Re: glibc 2.28 release on August 1st and extended ABI freeze for ppc64le float128.

[Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>]

On 29/06/18 15:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 06/29/2018 04:33 PM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> > On 26/06/18 20:32, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > i just posted math patches which would be nice to have in 2.28
> >
> > there are two parts:
> > - the first does not change abi and provides new implementations
> > with significant performance improvements,
> > - the second changes abi by adding new symbol versions that don't
> > do SVID error handling and further improves performance a bit.
> >
> > these require non-trivial amount of review and testing and i'd
> > like to extend the review period a bit before the freeze for
> > these too.  i think the first part has a good chance to get
> > into an acceptable state.  the second part is independent but
> > would be nice to get it in 2.28 too.
> >
> > thoughts?
>
> I'm generally sympathetic to this, but we have a lot of unreviewed math-related patches that should go into 2.28.  Would you be able to help 
> with review of the other patches?

yes, i can help with reviews next week.