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Re: Time for glibc 2.1.3?


On 15 Feb 2000, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> what kind of showstoppers to we have for glibc 2.1.3?  What are your
> plans for releasing 2.1.3?
> 
> I don't see any showstoppers for now.

The whole locale implementation seems to be seriously busted on 64 bit
platforms like ALpha and sparc64. setlocale() is randomly segfaulting on
sparc64 and localedef always segfaults on alpha.

I'd advise against releasing in this form.

Cristian
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