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Re: Release 2.24 - Last call
- From: Cory Fields <cory at coryfields dot com>
- To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org Development" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:05:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: Release 2.24 - Last call
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Cory Fields <cory@coryfields.com> wrote:
>
>> Am I too late to request backports for determinism fixes? These are
>> very significant for security-minded tools like Tor, Bitcoin, etc,
>> where users by nature distrust the binaries in the wild. Changes
>> include:
>>
>> 5cd84a722e09f301d1e134d075e1cfa421db08d6
>>
>> Also, this approved patch that is not yet applied:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-11/msg00179.html
>
> Ok for them.
>
Great, thanks.
>> Beyond that, there's one last change needed for ld that I could have
>> ready for review today if there's a chance of getting the above two in
>> as well.
>
> I am a little bit worried about it. Will that be ready for this week ?
>
> Tristan.
>
I should hope so. I'm awaiting a bit of input from Nick. I can have a
patch ready for review soon-after.
Regards,
Cory