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Re: Reverting the s390 jmp_buf/ucontext_t ABI change
- From: ams at gnu dot org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- Cc: uweigand at de dot ibm dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, stli at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, schwidefsky at de dot ibm dot com, carlos at redhat dot com, davem at davemloft dot net, aurelien at aurel32 dot net, siddhesh at redhat dot com, allan at archlinux dot org, richard dot guenther at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:54:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: Reverting the s390 jmp_buf/ucontext_t ABI change
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- Reply-to: ams at gnu dot org
> Stefan Liebler is working on a patch implementing this, and will post it
> ASAP for approval and inclusion in 2.20. A backport of that patch to 2.19
> will also be provided, and probably ought to be included in the 2.19
> release branch -- declaring the original 2.19 implementation as a bug
> that needs to be fixed. Any distro already shipping 2.19 should also
> include the patch (and rebuild affected binaries as necessary).
In that case I suggest to release a 2.19.1 with this in it and a public
announcement.
What about also removing the 2.19 tarballs completely? I think we did
that for some quite broken releases in the past.