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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