Re: Happy New Year 2024 & Freeze for the upcoming glibc 2.39 release

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> > * Release blockers
> >   - Revert to original qsort implementation and apply subsequent mergesort changes with heapsort as fallback.
> >         Attempts to make changes to qsort have shown deep application dependencies on undocumented behaviour.
> >         In order to preserver application compatibility we need to revert the less conservative changes.
> >         It would be good to revert to the original known state and then copy in some of the final changes. 
> 
> I just sent a new version [1], which should address the remarks Florian
> has raised.

[1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20240102141500.3300552-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org/

OK. Needs still review.
(Maybe split it into two commits as suggested in the wiki text?)

> >   - AArch64 SME support https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=28136 
> 
> I already reviewed it and modules some minor nits it should ready to land.

Is in already, good.

> >   - Remove ia64-linux-gnu
> 
> I am just warning Linux 6.7 to be officially release.  It might also require
> some minor updates on the exported syscall numbers and some headers constants.

WFM.

Gentoo is one of the two(?) remaining distros with ia64 support, but we're not pushing
for it to be kept.

> Since we are aiming to implement all the remaining C23 bits, I would
> like to add my floating-point round fixes as well [2]

https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=28918

OK, needs still review.

> The fstat alpha/sparc64 fix for sure [3].  

OK, needs still review.

> I would like to add some gnulib
> sync [4], but I can backport it if required as well.

https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/20231023214527.3628194-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org/

Let's try to include it. Needs still review.


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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge

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