Re: libc6 status
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 02:41:45PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>
> Don't make your life too difficult. Just apply the following patch
> which should be in the next glibc snapshot.
> Index: libc.map
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/libc/libc.map,v
> retrieving revision 1.38
> diff -u -r1.38 libc.map
> --- libc.map 1998/02/01 16:18:18 1.38
> +++ libc.map 1998/02/09 07:52:01
> @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
> # This is for ix86 only.
> _fp_hw;
>
> + # This is for sparc only.
> + .div; .mul; .rem; .udiv; .umul; .urem;
> +
Sorry, but that wouldn't work. Current binutils don't work
if you include symbols beginning with `.' in the libc.map. This is
(IMHO) a bug in binutils... I'm CC'ing H.J. Lu.
> Juan> The glibc development people are a bit quiet... there aren't
> Juan> new versions yet, but I'm going to release a new version including a
> Juan> patch for /etc/ld.so.preload handling (it doesn't work now), and that
> Juan> library including .{u,}{div,mul,rem}
>
> Whom are you contacting? I'm with the glibc team and asked already
> some times for patches and didn't receive any answer at all:-(. As
> I've told you already Ulrich Drepper who's mainting glibc is moving at
> the moment and therefore not available (but should be soonish again).
Sorry, I didn't want to disturb you... all of you are doing a
very good job :)
I sent those suggestions to Miguel de Icaza, who is
(was?) the one who used to apply patches for Sparc on glibc, and
didn't get any answer.
--
Juan Cespedes
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