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

[Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:33:51 PST (-0800), Jeff Law wrote:
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> On 1/10/24 11:38, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
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>>> (speaking not as a glibc maintainer [or even user!], but as someone
>>> who aims for source compatibility where possible...) what's the status
>>> of the riscv64 ifunc stuff?
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>> Adding Palmer and Jeff to TO: to see if we have an answer for this.
> My recollection (from Cauldron) was that we were still waiting on a
> final approval for the first ifunc'd mem* routine as Florian had raised
> some correctness questions.  The idea was once Florian's correctness
> questions were resolved we could use the knowledge to stamp out the
> other routines that have implementations, but needed the right ifunc glue.
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> I haven't had the time to follow glibc at all the last few months.  So
> if there's been movement I wouldn't be aware of it.

Evan has a patch set from this morning, I think it's ready to go.  I'd 
checked earlier this week too, but there were some comments.

So I think we can just commit it, it's been a pretty long tail of small 
stuff.

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> Jeff