Re: glibc 2.27: 3 weeks till release

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:54:01AM -0200, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
[...]
> Recent LLVM has added support for _Float128 [1] and its intrinsics [2] 
> used in glibc headers.  However it is currently failing on architectures
> where long double is already a ieee float 128 (aarch64 for instance).
> Szabolcs has opened BZ#22700 [3] and I think we should add it as blocker
> for 2.27.
> 
> [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D40673
> [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/rL321948
> [3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22700

According to the last link, clang has temporarily reverted the problematic
definition.  Although it would be desirable to have bits/floatn.h
compilable on these architectures by future clang releases and I encourage
everybody involved to make this happen, it doesn't look like a blocker for
2.27.


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