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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Cc: <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>,  <libc-help@sourceware.org>,
	<mike_kilpatrick@nskopensource.com>,
	 "'Shiva Subramanian'" <shiva.subramanian@tcm.uk.com>,
	 "'Bill Honaker'" <bhonaker@xid.com>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: Re-port Intent for HPE NonStop (a.k.a. Tandem)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:55:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k40zzf1.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003c01d83780$66105e80$32311b80$@schmitz-digital.de> (Joachim Schmitz's message of "Mon, 14 Mar 2022 09:49:20 +0100")

* Joachim Schmitz:

> Not sure what you'd expect us to "release first", out compiler?
> If so: sorry, that won't happen. We don't even own it ourself.
> If we were able to port gcc, I believe we'd not be allowed to share it, due
> to proprietary code needed inside, needed to support the extension out
> platform needs.

Understood, but if you want to even have to a chance at an official
glibc port, you'd have to address these issues somehow.

> If glibc can't be made POSIX complaint, then that's where everything is lost
> for us, as far as I can tell.

There might be a misunderstanding here.  glibc is not layered on top of
a POSIX interface, it itself is the POSIX interface for GNU systems.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-14  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-13 12:43 rsbecker
2022-03-14  7:54 ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-14  8:12   ` AW: " Joachim Schmitz
2022-03-14  8:32     ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-14  8:49       ` AW: " Joachim Schmitz
2022-03-14  8:55         ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2022-03-14 12:48   ` rsbecker
2022-03-14 13:12     ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-14 14:20       ` Adhemerval Zanella

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