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Re: glibc 2.19 status?
- From: Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:32:05 +0000
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.19 status?
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- References: <52E649BF dot 5020400 at archlinux dot org> <20140128170944 dot GN2149 at spoyarek dot pnq dot redhat dot com>
On 28 January 2014 17:09, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:57:51PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
>> 2) Anybody see anything that needs added to the NEWS or contrib.texi files?
>
> I did a quick check in git log for more than 10 commits since 2.18 and
> came up with this list:
>
> - Ondrej Bilka for optimized x64 routines and various fixes
>
> - Will Newton for contributing an optimized memcpy for ARM NEON and
> VFP chips various fixes
I believe the NEON memcpy code landed in 2.18. A quick look at ARM
changes for 2.19:
* Faster strlen for armv6t2 and greater cores
* Pointer encryption support
* Various small perfomance improvements and fixes
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Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro