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Re: Update on freeze status of glibc 2.18?
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Ryan Arnold <rsa at us dot ibm dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:01:22 -0700
- Subject: Re: Update on freeze status of glibc 2.18?
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Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:
>
> Correct. This also means not introducing new API or ABI features.
Just to clarify:
The elision patch kit as posted does not change any API or ABI based
on configure switches. I have no plans to change that.
It however turns on/off elision for existing mutexes and rwlock, so the
documented behaviour differences in the manual will happen or not
happen.
-Andi
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