Update on freeze status of glibc 2.18?

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Tue Jun 11 21:00:00 GMT 2013


On 06/11/2013 01:20 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 
>> I see you checking in more fixes to libm testing, are these
>> things you want in 2.18?
> 
> I don't think it's particularly important which libm testsuite fixes end 
> up in 2.18.  As regards fixes to make tests handle better cases where 
> exceptions / rounding modes are defined in the headers but may not be 
> supported at runtime, most of those should be safe during the freeze 
> anyway.  But getting fully clean expected test results on more 
> configurations (which is the point there - reducing the set of failures 
> someone testing on soft-float ARM or MIPS needs to know to expect) is a 
> fairly long-term goal.

Agreed. I just didn't want to declare a freeze if you still had something
you wanted in 2.18.

Thank you for clarifying.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 



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