Re: musl 0.9.8 released

[Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:49:58 -0500
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:

> 
> Release announcement for musl 0.9.8:
> 
>     New PowerPC port and major bug fixes and improvements for the MIPS
>     port. Coverage for more optional parts of POSIX including the
>     thread priority scheduling option and stubs for unsupported
>     functionality. Dynamic linker dl_iterate_phdr support. Various
>     minor bugs and strict conformance issues have also been fixed and
>     application compatibility improved.
Thanks!
> 
>     http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-0.9.8.tar.gz

Mirrored at github.com/idunham/musl branch "master"

> As a post-release agenda, I'd like to first address things that have
> been in demand lately:
> 
> - Proper MIPS softfloat support
> - x32 port
> - ether.h interfaces
> - %m modifier for scanf
> - Affinity/cpuset stuff
> 
> And I have a few agenda items of my own:
> 
> - Self-synchronized destruction of FILE streams (same issue all
>   synchronization objects have had with self-synchronized
>   destruction -- unlocking thread may not access memory after the
>   destroying thread already got the lock).
> - Making stdio functions cancellable while waiting for locks.
> - Getting strace & gdb working properly with minimal patching.
> 
> That's about it..hopefully the next release cycle won't take so long.
> 
> Rich

All very good, and I don't think I've got any more to add...

So I guess that leaves the subarches like so:
x86:  i486, x86_64
arm:  arm(eb), armel
mips: mips(32), mipsel(32)
microblaze: microblaze
(What's the status of microblazeel/microblazele? configure looks not to recognize it...)
ppc:  powerpc(32)

Total arches:
6
Total subarches (distinct ABIs):
8-10 (depending on status of microblazeel and ABI compatability of armhf with armel)

-planned subarches: mipsel32-sf, mips32-sf
-planned arches: x32
-distant: mips64, mipsel64, ppc64 (I *think* Rich Pennington got these working, but they haven't been merged)
-unsupported subarches: i386

It seems Debian's using aarch64-* for ARMv8.

-- 
Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com>