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Re: Avoid use of "register" as optimization hint
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 22:33:32 +0000
- 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> <20130607 dot 151601 dot 1661940145743853691 dot davem at davemloft dot net> <20130607222746 dot 662422C08C at topped-with-meat dot com>
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The approval we got all those years ago to relicense pieces from GMP v1
> when it was under GPL (v1 I think) to glibc LGPLv1 (as it was then) is
I'd presumed that the code had been copied in when GMP and glibc were both
under the same version of the LGPL (as they were for a long time) and so
hadn't involved any special permission; I hadn't realised that there was a
relicensing from GPL to LGPL involved when the code was added to glibc.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com