Re: dietlibc: Debian redistribution

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hector Oron wrote:

> could also help out sending their fixes to upstream (you).

Hm, patches or at least bugs, yes.

> 2011/7/9 Felix von Leitner <[email protected]>:

> > I don't actually have an ARM.  I did import the ARM patches a while ago.

Do you have an HPPA? I’ve found that its strstr is broken:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523086
No idea how to fix it though, and we would need to retest
CVS, I guess. Removing parisc/strstr.S to fall back to the
generic C version worked.

Also, S/390 is broken – waldi can probably offer access to one:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523110
No idea what’s broken there and/or where, I had to disable
using dietlibc in mksh/s390 builds.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547404
shows some strtod issues, which may or may not happen
due to packaging. (I no longer use strtod in mksh.)

I’d love to see more activity on dietlibc, it has seemed
pretty stagnating (especially in certain Debian derivates),
and the other hope I had for Linux (klibc) became undesi‐
rable (they rely on Undefined Behaviour that happens to
work on “all but two” platforms, despite having been shown
how to fix the code in question by GCC developers; in fact,
they reverted the fix).

bye,
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