On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:48:33PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net> wrote: > > > > I only object to the extent that I don't think everyone who's been > > looking at the Alpha patch has agreed that it's right, otherwise I > > would've done the upload yesterday. If everyone agrees, the current > > plan is to do it tonight. > > As I have pointed out in the BTS entry, this bug can't be that bad since > it's been around for at least five years, in both glibc and Linux. There are several random, unexplained, segfaults in builds that I haven't known what to do with. It seems likely that this bug is the problem. > Anyway, you can always disable the assembly version completely until a > fixed version becomes available. I'm thinking this is the best idea -- any objections? I can upload a 14.2 that uses the C implementation on alpha, and lower the severity to important, until someone has time to fix the asm... -- Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org) The opinions expressed here are my own.
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