RFC: Backport architecture specific improvements to release branches

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:36 AM Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:29 PM H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha
> <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We'd like to backport architecture specific improvements to release branches,
> > similar to backports under sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch on users/intel/x86/2.34
> > branch:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/x86-glibc/glibc/-/commits/users/intel/x86/2.34
>
> Given that the compiler does not emit `bzero` and we dropped the `__memsetzero`
> optimization maybe best w.o:
> https://gitlab.com/x86-glibc/glibc/-/commit/76e17e47789ef4faf1367b2e48c19763559c79a0
> for the sake of code size.

I like to make the release branch as close to the master branch as possible
to make backporting easier.

> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > H.J.



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H.J.