Re: [PATCH] PowerPC64 port part 4 of 7

[Tom Gall <tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com>]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Tom Gall wrote:
>
> > The memset patch should have been in a month ago as it was posted to the
> > libc-alpha list early in July!
>
> If the ppc maintainer hasn't looked at it for some reason it is what you
> can expect.  Not that you have the right to make such a comment since
> you don't pay anybody to do the work.

Nobody pays me to maintain the code I do, either. Doesn't mean I'm not
interested in bug fixes nor does it mean I don't like feedback telling me I
need fix x, y or z.


> > That fixes a problem which has been a constant
> > thorn in the PPC backside for a LOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGG time.
>
> The true problem is that ppc is almost as broken as mips in that there
> are too many variations between the implementations.

Hardly. The bug in this case is well known and well understood. Granted it
would have been nice had the folks that make the silicon choosen a different
design approach but back in those days feedback from the open source
community didn't necessarily reach those offices.  Regardless, let's fix the
bug in glibc so each of the distros (like SuSE, Redhat, Montavista, Debian
and Yellow Dog) don't have to continue to do it themselves.

Regards,

Tom

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