From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/2187 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Pending issues for release Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:17:21 +0200 Message-ID: <50880681.9000500@barfooze.de> References: <20121018182957.GA18080@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20121019021727.GK254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351091874 25772 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2012 15:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:17:54 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-2188-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Oct 24 17:18:02 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TR2iY-0002vi-1x for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:18:02 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 1533 invoked by uid 550); 24 Oct 2012 15:17:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 1524 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2012 15:17:53 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121019021727.GK254@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:2187 Archived-At: On 10/19/2012 04:17 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 02:29:57PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: >> - dl_iterate_phdr patch (npx) >> - sigreturn(?) and other issues npx wanted for unwinding > Waiting on npx for these. we haven't heard from npx for quite some time; maybe we can skip that for the next release ? >> - integrating the configure patch for better pcc support > I will commit the tryldflag changes as-is, but the libpcc search needs > improvement. > >> - inline syscalls for microblaze > Done. > >> - explicit mips soft-float abi support (mainly for use with broken >> openwrt kernels) > Still need to figure out how best to do this... i think this one is also not critical for this release, and can be postponed. >> - make endian.h more robust for opposite-endian builds (mipsel, armeb) > Done. > >> And a few other things that might make it in, if I get around to them: >> >> - fenv support on mips and microblaze > Done on mips; microblaze does not seem to have working hard-float. > >> - additional use of vfork (system, popen, wordexp, etc.) > Mostly done. wordexp remains, and should possibly be reworked to use > popen or posix_spawn as its backend to avoid code duplication. what's the current status on this one ? >> - subarchs in build system (e.g. mips-softfloat, arm-hardfloat, etc.) > Still unsure how best to do this. introducing this right before a release could cause unexpected breakage; imo we should postpone this as well. i hope for the release to come out soon, to experiment with the new TLS support in qemu.