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Re: glibc-2.26 Implementation of signbit in math.h causes problem with C++ programs
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Andrew Paxie <cpp dot scribe at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:55:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc-2.26 Implementation of signbit in math.h causes problem with C++ programs
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* Andrew Paxie:
> Greetings.
>
> I read in
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-08/msg00010.html
> that you wanted some feedback on which compilers can support
> glibc 2.26:
>
> Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
> compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
> how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
> are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
> contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
>
>
> Here's a copy of a defect report I raised with Canonical,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1725869
Is this different from this bug we fixed?
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22296>
It has been backported to the 2.26 stable branch as well.