2.26 release blockers?

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jul 5 13:51:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, 5 Jul 2017, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> > The thread types headers refactoring, to make them usable for both C11 
> > threads and pthreads, went in some time ago.
> > 
> > All that architecture-specific header content will get used in C11 threads 
> > and it's far from obvious that any issues that appear with C11 threads 
> > would also appear with pthreads.
> 
> It was not clear to me if you still consider C11 threads patches a
> disruptive for arch-testing that can't not get validated in current
> cross-compiling testing.  

I think the ABI baselines are adequately validated by cross-compilation 
testing, but there's a risk of architecture-specific problems that only 
show up in C11 threads execution testing being missed.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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