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Re: glibc 2.22 --- Hard freeze. Test your machines.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, <leonhard dot holz at web dot de>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:07:02 +0000
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.22 --- Hard freeze. Test your machines.
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Joseph Myers wrote:
> I've tracked the sort-test.sh intermittent failures to:
>
> commit f13c2a8dff2329c6692a80176262ceaaf8a6f74e
> Author: Leonhard Holz <leonhard.holz@web.de>
> Date: Tue May 12 11:37:52 2015 +0200
>
> Improve strcoll with strdiff.
>
> This patch improves strcoll hot case by finding first byte that
> mismatches. That is in likely case enough to determine comparison
> result.
>
> See details and deterministic reproducer in bug 18589. This is a
> regression from 2.21, though it may not need to block the release.
Leonhard, ping on this regression. Also, what email address should be
used for CC:ing you in Bugzilla? There isn't an account for
leonhard.holz@web.de.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com