Weekly Roundup 02/03/2006

[Tom Gall <tom_gall at vnet dot ibm dot com>]

Please take note of the ABI freeze note and discussion for 
glibc 2.4.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00016.html

General format is for each mailing list,

Status (Under Evaluation -> Under Discussion -> (Accepted | Rejected))
Link to Post
Author / Bugzilla #

This roundup considers submissions since Dec 1st 2005. Submissions
between Jan 29th 2006 and Feb 3rd 2006 will be marked New.

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Patches from libc-alpha
5 new this week
6 outstanding

(new)Under discussion: Re: [PATCH] PPC fixes for long double
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00154.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: PATCH: libc/2251: Weak undefined symbol doesn't work
properly with PIE
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00152.html
H. J. Lu

(new)Alt Accepted: [PATCH] Blind attempt at alpha long double glibc
switch, looking for testers
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00151.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] PPC fixes for long double
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00149.html
Steven Munroe

(new)Accepted: use -fno-toplevel-reorder if it's available
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00146.html
Alexandre Oliva

Under evaluation: MIPS64 (n32, n64) NPTL support
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00142.html
Daniel Jacobowitz

Under evaluation: MIPS n32 ptrace ABI fix
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00140.html
Daniel Jacobowitz

Under evaluation: [PATCH] Allow different values than ELFOSABI_SYSV for
ELF OSABI
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00123.html
Aurelien Jarno

Under discussion: [PATCH] ppc update dl-procinfo to match RFC.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00096.html
Steven Munroe

Under evaluation: PATCH: PR libc/2013: memccpy() gives inconsistent
results on mmapped files
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2006-01/msg00048.html
H. J. Lu

Under evaluation: [PATCH][FINAL] Remove usage of __BIND_NOSTATIC
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-12/msg00134.html
Steven J. Hill


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Patches From libc-ports
0 new this week
4 outstanding

Under evaluation: misc touchup patches for linuxthreads_db
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2006-01/msg00012.html
Mike Frysinger

Under evaluation: [PATCH] declare __pthread_mutex_s for the arm
architecture
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-ports/2006-01/msg00009.html
Glauber de Oliveira Costa

Under discussion: [PATCH] PPC32 nofpu fixes
Depends on http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2005-12/msg00057.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2005-12/msg00008.html
Steve Munroe

Under discussion: [PATCH] powerp-cpu add-on for --with-cpu
Obsolete http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2005-12/msg00007.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-ports/2006-01/msg00008.html
Steve Munroe

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Patches From libc-hacker
14 new this week
2 outstanding

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix stdlib-ldbl.h
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00014.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix math.h for C++ with -mlong-double-64
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00013.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix nexttowardl if compiling new program
against new glibc headers with -mlong-double-64
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00012.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] Fix <bits/libio-ldbl.h>
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00005.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] Fix <bits/mathcalls.h>
__BEGIN_NAMESPACE_C99/__END_NAMESPACE_C99 pairing
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00003.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] Fix s_finitel.c on ppc/ppc64
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00002.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] Fix ldbl-128 s_llrintl.c
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-02/msg00001.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] Fix sparc64 build
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00105.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix sparc32 build with GCC 4.0+
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00104.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] SH tiny tweak
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00103.html
Kaz Kojima

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] s390 glibc long double patch
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00100.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix glibc build on ppc64
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00098.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Under evaluation: [PATCH] Don't use 128-bit long double on soft-float
powerpc
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00097.html
Jakub Jelinek

(new)Accepted: [PATCH] ppc ulps fixes
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00096.html
Jakub Jelinek

Under evaluation: snprintf documentation fix
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00094.html
NIIBE Yutaka

Under evaluation: [PATCH] Fix tst-faccessat.c if run as root
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2006-01/msg00074.html
Jakub Jelinek