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Re: 2.25 freeze status
On 01/30/2017 11:25 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
On Sat, 2017-01-28 at 19:00 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
Whatever we might think about the seriousness of the issue, it has
existed
for 4 or 5 releases and few people have run into it, which means we
have
time to fix it i.e. not a blocker.
That's not an entirely accurate characterisation. Bug 20019 has indeed
existed for several releases without anybody noticing, but bug 21041 is
new.
Phil, thanks for spelling this out explicitly.
The effect of the older bug 20019 is that affected programs would be at
risk of crashing if they called longjmp(). But the effect of the newer
bug 21041 is that such programs cannot start up at all, even if they
never in fact call longjmp() at runtime.
I share this concern.
Florian