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Re: Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: roland at hack dot frob dot com
- Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
- References: <20130607215803 dot 20E5C2C088 at topped-with-meat dot com> <20130607 dot 150846 dot 391679654440350613 dot davem at davemloft dot net> <20130607221208 dot 6A7E82C08D at topped-with-meat dot com>
From: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 15:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
>> This topic came up when I wanted to use more recent GMP sparc code in
>> glibc's sysdeps, and I ended up only being able to use code that I had
>> written completely myself.
>>
>> Others, at the time, did not express the same level of confidence you do.
>
> Do you mean just others here, or did you ask a GMP maintainer and/or an FSF
> licensing representative?
Others here, who pointed this issue out when I posted the patch at the time.
For example:
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-01/msg00425.html
Which suggested we need to ask the FSF for approval.