Re: bad {MIN}SIGSTKSZ on debian glibc-2.2.5-14.3

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:46:27 -0800,
David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:22:38 +0900, GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> said:
> 
>   GOTO> Ah, I see.  But... is it critical thing to replace "stable" package?
>   GOTO> Changing Debian "stable" release is something high barrier...
>   GOTO> I don't know current IA-64 really needs such change or not, so I
>   GOTO> would like to know this change is "indispensable".
> 
> I should say that I know next to nothing about Debian release
> management.  Having said that: in my opinion, this is something that
> should be fixed at the next possible opportunity.  I don't think it's
> worth making a release because of this fix, but it would be good if
> the fix could be rolled into the next update.  My understanding is
> that there are relatively frequent "security" updates.  Perhaps it
> could be rolled into one of those.

Thanks for your comments.
It's good opinion.  I seconded.

>   GOTO> BTW, I would like to know that how many registers the current
>   GOTO> IA64 (Itanium/Itanium2) has?
> 
> The current chips implement the architected minimum of registers, that
> is, there are 96 stacked registers (for a total of 128 integer
> registers and 128 floating-point registers).

OK, it's not "ASAP" matter, but "to be in near future" item.

Whenever we get opportunity to fix sarge libc6, we introduce such
modification for both ia64 and sparc64.

Regards,
-- gotom