Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-10-27)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2025-10-27 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

​ * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 624 patches.
  * Starting review at 122670.
  * Month of October focus?
  * Carlos: Should we focus on a set of patches like the clang build ones?
  * Adhemerval: Working on a v2.
  * Carlos: Marking v1 as superseded then.
  * Carlos: Anything for November?
  * Wilco: Removal of fastbins?
  * Carlos "malloc: Remove fastbins" from Dev Jain.
  * Discussed Geekbench as a microbenchmark for review feedback.
  * Carlos: OK, we can circle back and review Dev's work.
  * Support RISC-V Control Flow Integrifty (CFI) (Jesse Huang)
   * Carlos: Do we have a machine maintainer?
   * Adhemerval: We don't have a specific party driving the changes.
   * Carlos: Ask Peter if they want to be the machine maintainer?
   * Carlos: I have asked Peter if he wants to be RISC-V machime maintainer.
  * Support translated option names in getopt and argp (Vivien)
   * Carlos: I owe a response to the assignment question.
   * Noted here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2025-October/170833.html
   * Noted that Florian responded to v7 and raised some reservations.
   * Need to re-raise with Florian to determine if this is a blocker.
  * nss: Use gethostbyname4_r when requesting IPv6 addresses (bug 14413) (Patrick)
   * Carlos: Marked Failed CI.
  * Updates struct tcp_zerocopy_receive from 5.11 to netinet/tcp.h. (Jiayuan)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * math: Optimize frexp functions with fast path (Osama)
   * Reviewer Pool: Wilco
  * Support assert as a variadic macro for C23 (Joseph)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
  * [v10] malloc: add free_sized and free_aligned_sized from C23 (Justin)
   * Adhemerval: I'll review since I reviewed the others.
  * Carlos: Noting that "aarch64: support shadow stack in clone3" from Yury is still up for review.
  * Stopped at 122390.

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Cheers,
Carlos.