some status

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

 > On Sunday (thanks to rth's help) I was able to compile glibc for the
 > first time since January using the current egcs.  A big step.

and another big step: The current glibc passes `make check' again for
me!

[...]
 > Yesterday I started looking at the IA-64 changes and I'm making very
 > slow progress.  The biggest problem are the patches which change
 > generic code and this in a way which penalizes other architectures.
 > This is of course not acceptable.  So I have to rewrite the code but
 > this takes time.
Are these patches available somewhere?  Or can you send the current
version to the list?

Andreas
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