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Re: sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>,libc-ports at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:16:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu
- References: <20051003201210.E0829180E25@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:12:10PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The glibc code in sysdeps/powerpc/nofpu has been disused and unmaintained
> for a while. Apparently it's broken. I've moved it to the ports
> repository, since the primary glibc development effort is not addressing
> the configurations that use this code. It can sit there abandoned with the
> rest of the old cruft. But I thought I'd solicit for interest in actually
> maintaining it. Aldy contributed the code originally, Steve has tweaked it
> and is usually interested in all things PPC, and Dan, well, we know about
> Dan. I deem you likely suckers. If a person or cabal would like to come
> forth to be on the rack for this code and maintain it with direct cvs write
> access in the ports repository, kindly pipe up now.
Uh, thank you, I think? I'm going to dodge this one.
I've fixed bugs in this code in the past, and some of our customers are
still using it AFAIK, but I don't have enough interest in it to
maintain it. Unless it turns out I need to fix it again later. But
for now I'll decline.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC