From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 9489 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2020 08:15:21 -0000 Received: from mother.openwall.net (195.42.179.200) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 25 Jun 2020 08:15:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 15586 invoked by uid 550); 25 Jun 2020 08:15:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 15568 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2020 08:15:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:15:04 +0200 From: Szabolcs Nagy To: Rich Felker Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com Message-ID: <20200625081504.GE2048759@port70.net> Mail-Followup-To: Rich Felker , musl@lists.openwall.com References: <20200624204243.GL6430@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200624204243.GL6430@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Subject: Re: [musl] Release prep for 1.2.1, and afterwards * Rich Felker [2020-06-24 16:42:44 -0400]: > I'm about to do last work of merging mallocng, followed soon by > release. Is there anything in the way of overlooked bug reports or > patches that should still be addressed in this release cycle? > > Things I'm aware of: > > - "Proposal to match behaviour of gethostbyname to glibc". Latest > patch is probably ok, but could be deferred to after release. > > - nsz's new sqrt{,f,l}. I'm hesitant to do all three right away > without time to test, but replacing sqrtl.c could be appropriate > since the current one is badly broken on archs with ld wider than > double. However it would need to accept ld80 in order not to be > build-breaking on m68k, or m68k would need an alternative. that's still under work but it would be nice if we could get the aarch64 memcpy patch in (the c implementation is really slow and i've seen ppl compare aarch64 vs x86 server performance with some benchmark on alpine..) > > and some more with open questions or work to be done that can't be > finished now but should be revisited after release: > > - fenv overhaul (sorry for dropping this, Damian) > - PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP > - _SC_NPROCESSORS_{CONF,ONLN} behavior > - hexagon port > - rv32 port > - arm fdpic (newly revived interest from users on list) > - dni (dynamic linking without PT_INTERP absolute path) & related ldso > work by rcombs > - "lutimes: Add checks for input parameters"