Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-05-04)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2026-05-04 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

​ * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 592 patches.
  * Starting at 134395.
  * Link static C++ tests against libatomic.a if needed (HJ)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval
   * Noted: gcc 8a99fdb70493df1294b53406913e5ea1fc971c13
   * Noted: gcc e63cf4b130b86dd7dde1bf499d3d40faca10ea2e
  * powerpc32/nofpu: Add internal soft-fp symbols to avoid PLT in libc.so (HJ)
   * Similar patch posted by Adhemerval to fix.
  * powerpc: Fix check-localplt from 99303f3871 (Adhemerval)
   * Asked HJ for review. Assigned.
  * [v5] libio: Fix ungetwc operating on byte stream [BZ #33998] (Rocket Ma)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
  * hugepages: cache THP mode and page size [BZ #34083] (Shamil)
   * Marked dropped after discussion with HJ.
  * [v6] elf: Support THP segment load with madvise enabled THP (HJ)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ Delorie
  * intl: Import plural expression hardening from GNU gettext (Avinal)
   * Changes requested.
   * Carlos: Post v3, with Adhemerval's RB.
  * resolv, rt: Change some extern inline functions to static inline (Collingbourne)
   * Changes requested.
  * Fixes for CVE-2026-5435, CVE-2026-6238 (Florian)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos.
  * Stopped at 134177.
  * [RFC] posix: Make system, popen, and wordexp try pidfd_spawn first (BZ 34001)
   * Raised by Adhemerval for review.
  * elf: Defer all IRELATIVE relocations until after PLT setup (BZ 20673)
   * Raised by Adhemerval for review.
   * This is a mold report.
   * Discussed how we make a decision.
   * Carlos: Robustness principle would require us to be flexible with this input.

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Cheers,
Carlos.