[RESEND] [PATCH] PPC64: First in the series of patches implementing

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019, David Edelsohn wrote:

> Please stop creating an artificial chicken-and-egg problem.  GCC does

It's not artificial.  It's about verifying that the glibc changes actually 
work as intended - in an area where the x86_64 patches, as originally 
committed, *didn't* work as intended (the sincos ABI problem), for the 
lack of such testing (so demonstrating that more testing is needed for 
future libmvec architectures).

Right now, we have explicit statements from Tulio that the ABI *cannot* be 
confirmed to be as desired, which makes it particularly clear that 
integrating these patches would be premature.

> not need to implement the vector functionality before it can be merged
> into GLIBC.  One project needs to go first.  An implementation in
> GLIBC that will be leveraged by a future release of GCC is fine.
> Because of the long pipeline for GLIBC to propagate into Linux
> distributions, an early GLIBC implementation is very appropriate.

The glibc freeze for 2.30 starts on 1 July.  GCC 9 probably branches in 
late April.  There's plenty of time for GCC changes to support this ABI to 
get in before the next glibc freeze (and plenty of time for discussion of 
the glibc patches, and testing with uncommitted GCC patches, before then).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com