glibc 2.22 --- Hard freeze. Test your machines.

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Aug 4 15:10:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Joseph Myers wrote:

> I've tracked the sort-test.sh intermittent failures to:
> 
> commit f13c2a8dff2329c6692a80176262ceaaf8a6f74e
> Author: Leonhard Holz <leonhard.holz@web.de>
> Date:   Tue May 12 11:37:52 2015 +0200
> 
>     Improve strcoll with strdiff.
>     
>     This patch improves strcoll hot case by finding first byte that
>     mismatches. That is in likely case enough to determine comparison
>     result.
> 
> See details and deterministic reproducer in bug 18589.  This is a 
> regression from 2.21, though it may not need to block the release.

Leonhard, ping on this regression.  Also, what email address should be 
used for CC:ing you in Bugzilla?  There isn't an account for 
leonhard.holz@web.de.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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