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Subject: Re: [committed] hppa: Drop 16-byte pthread lock alignment
To: John David Anglin <dave@parisc-linux.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: deller@gmx.de
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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:24:34 +0100
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On 2023-03-26 10:22 p.m., John David Anglin wrote:

> +     The 16-byte aligned lock stucture causes various pthread
> +     structures to be over aligned. This causes some builds
> +     to fail which assume a maximum alignment of 8 bytes.
> +     Linuxthreads has been removed for 12 years, so drop

The "for 12 years" comment will be stale & incorrect already a year from now.  Better say
something more absolute, like "was removed in 2011" (just guessing, don't really know the
year) or be more vague like "a long while ago", or some such.