Bug#840574: Please backport libgo fixes for sparc64
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:40 AM, James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - help + patch
>
> Hi Matthias,
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 01:50:43PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 + help
>> Control: tags -1 - patch
>>
>> James, please could you name the revisions in the GCC subversion repository?
>> Afaics these are r241084, r241077, r241051. Even better, could you test and
>> propose this backport upstream?
>
> To confirm, they are the following revisions:
>
> * r241171 (sparc64 relocations, e1fc2925 in go master, now also in
> gofrontend/gccgo)
> * r241084 (don't use pt_regs; unnecessary, and seemingly not defined by
> the included headers on arm64)
> * r241072 (make rawClone no_split_stack)
> * r241051 (fix getrandom on sparc64 and clone on sparc*)
> * r240457 (add getrandom for MIPS/SPARC)
>
> We've been using the latest gcc-6 package with these patches (other than
> no_split_stack and pt_regs fixups) applied on top for sparc64 (uploaded
> to unreleased) for the past few days, and the only packages which fail
> to build seem to be because Debian currently has an out-of-date x/sys
> package without sparc64 definitions. I haven't been aware of any
> regressions.
>
> Ian: I imagine the getrandom and elf changes would be fine for gcc-6,
> but what about the clone changes? I can understand if that's too
> invasive, but backporting would be great.
The clone changes are fine with me. It's really up to the release managers.
Ian
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