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Re: glibc 2.19 status?
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:02:22 +1000
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.19 status?
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On 05/02/14 10:12, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Allan McRae wrote:
>
>> Joseph suggests reverting them[1] and Roland agreed[2]. Here is more
>> from Roland about the issue and concerns about breaking the ABI [3].
>>
>> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00720.html
>> [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00770.html
>> [3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00719.html
>>
>> As far as I see, there was no formal conclusion on what to do for
>> glibc-2.19 here. Hence the query in the status list.
>
> Well, what we should not do is sit around indefinitely delaying the
> release! Revert the changes, run the testsuite on x86_64 and x86, commit
> the reversion and start the process for the actual release. It's clear we
> do not have consensus to keep the changes in 2.19, which is what matters.
>
On the allan/revert-TLS-changes branch, I have reverted:
"Async-signal safe TLS." (7f507ee1)
"Patch 2/4 of the effort to make TLS access async-signal-safe." (1f33d36a)
"Patch 3/4 of the effort to make TLS access async-signal-safe." (35e8f7ab)
"Patch [1/4] async-signal safe TLS." (69a17d9d)
"BZ 16133 has been fixed (async signal safe TLS)." (a494421f)
This builds and passes the test-suite on i686 and x86_64.
Are all the patches involved requiring reverted, or am I being too heavy
handed?
Allan