2.33 Hard Freeze

[Szabolcs Nagy]

The 01/26/2021 09:18, Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Now that we handled all the release blockers [1], the master branch
> is now at hard freeze.  The plan is still to set the release to next
> week, Feb 1st (or maybe a couple days later). 
> 
> As usual, please do not push anything into master and if something
> needs to go urgently please cc me with an explanation of why the fix
> is necessary (broken build due a glibc issue, 0-day sev-1 security issue,
> very important bugfix, etc.).
> 
> Currently we have status report for ARC, ARM (hard-float), C-SKY, MIPS
> (LE hard-float and BE soft-float), PowerPC (32-bt soft-float, RISC-V
> (rv64imac/lp64 and rv64imafdc/lp64) and x86.  I will try to get results
> for alpha, hppa, sh, and sparc.
> 
> Regarding the current issues:
> 
>   - nios2 is failing to build with GCC11 [2].  From the bug report [3]
>     it seems to be a binutils issues so I don't consider this a release
>     blocker.
> 
>   - There are a couple of GCC11 regressions/blockers [4] [5].  For former
>     it does seem a to be a gcc regression, while for later I think we
>     should defer to next release.
> 
>   - The cond-var issue [6].  Carlos is reviewing it, although I do think
>     this is kind late for a quite intrusive patchset.  I think it would
>     be better to backport it once we it set to upstream.


well there is a regression i could not reproduce yet:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27237
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/121916.html

the problematic patch can be reverted (it's not needed
for correctness) but i would like to understand what's
going on.

> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.33
> [2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/121936.html
> [3] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97683
> [4] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98512
> [5] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-December/120560.html
> [6] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=1496