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Re: [PATCH] glibc 64-bit obstack support
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 11:32:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] glibc 64-bit obstack support
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- References: <1406354233-7664-1-git-send-email-amodra at gmail dot com> <1406354233-7664-7-git-send-email-amodra at gmail dot com> <20140728193621 dot 2CC7D2C3A09 at topped-with-meat dot com> <20140729005558 dot GF30089 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org>
On 07/29/2014 01:55 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> Oh well. At least I have a working knowledge of glibc internals that
> makes it reasonably easy to fix the compat issue. BTW, this obstack
> problem has been known since at least 2007, and I suspect the main
> reason it has remained unfixed is the number of hoops that need to be
> negotiated before a patch can be committed.. It's not just gnulib
> and glibc, but eg. to update the ancient obstack.h in libiberty, gcc,
> gdb and gas all needed fixes to remove improper use of obstack
> internals.
/me cheers for Alan's bravery.
Thanks a lot for working on this.
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14483
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231832
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Thanks,
Pedro Alves