glibc 2.19 status?

Will Newton will.newton@linaro.org
Tue Jan 28 20:32:00 GMT 2014


On 28 January 2014 17:09, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:57:51PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> 2) Anybody see anything that needs added to the NEWS or contrib.texi files?
>
> I did a quick check in git log for more than 10 commits since 2.18 and
> came up with this list:
>
> - Ondrej Bilka for optimized x64 routines and various fixes
>
> - Will Newton for contributing an optimized memcpy for ARM NEON and
>   VFP chips various fixes

I believe the NEON memcpy code landed in 2.18. A quick look at ARM
changes for 2.19:

* Faster strlen for armv6t2 and greater cores
* Pointer encryption support
* Various small perfomance improvements and fixes

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro



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