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Re: abi check error in math
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> 7065, but it was really an aside to the main purpose of that bug report,
> and I didn't mention the symlist stuff until after Ulrich had WONTFIXed
> it. So I really over-egged the pudding in that comment. Perhaps people
> really do care, just not enough to dig stuff out of obscure comments in
> bug reports.
>
> (Attila Tóth REOPENed the bug report, which even as the bug reporter I
> think is somewhat impolite for a random passer-by to do :) )
>
> (7066, a probable buffer overrun in strtold() reported by glibc's own
> testsuite, has also had no attention since I opened it. That one's my
> own damn fault for not pursuing it further and coming up with a patch, I
> suppose.)
Yes, perhaps we need to plan some glibc bug squashing parties.
I'm in the thick of finishing the hppa NPTL transition, so I don't have
much free time to hack generic stuff.
Just look at the mess in the generic C string manipulation functions.
Cheers,
Carlos.