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Re: 2.26 release blockers?
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > The thread types headers refactoring, to make them usable for both C11
> > threads and pthreads, went in some time ago.
> >
> > All that architecture-specific header content will get used in C11 threads
> > and it's far from obvious that any issues that appear with C11 threads
> > would also appear with pthreads.
>
> It was not clear to me if you still consider C11 threads patches a
> disruptive for arch-testing that can't not get validated in current
> cross-compiling testing.
I think the ABI baselines are adequately validated by cross-compilation
testing, but there's a risk of architecture-specific problems that only
show up in C11 threads execution testing being missed.
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Joseph S. Myers
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