Re: floating stacks?
At 17 Feb 2003 12:08:33 +0100,
Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 12:07, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > Is your architecure i386? AFAIK, on i386 FLOATING_STACKS is defined.
> > We don't change such part of upstream glibc. Or do I misunderstand
> > something?
>
> Yes, it is, sorry for not noting that before-hand.
>
> >From what I read on the newsgroup/mailing list archives, it is not
> enabled by default, because the implementation conflicts with something
> in 486 or so.
> I'm not sure though, but I guess then it would boil down to the fact
> that debian has no i686 architecture.
>
> See here for more info:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=aljnu3%24bpu%241%40rznews2.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Yes, we are currently dropping i686 support. This issue is i686 -opt
package benefit.
We're concentrating to fix and stabilize the various problem with
glibc 2.3.1. We plan to provide i686 opt package, or new libc6
package which owns i686 optimized libraries.
Regards,
-- gotom
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