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Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl dot de>
To: Jeremy Linton <jli at greshamstorage dot com>
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:46:13 +0200
Subject: Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?
References: <87y7ixb6wb.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <46681E1D.6050208@greshamstorage.com>

On Thu, 2007-06-07 10:02:53 -0500, Jeremy Linton <jli@greshamstorage.com> wrote:
> 	From monitoring this mailing list for a while it appears apparent 
> 	that certain people pride themselves in rejecting any patch which improves 
> the robustness of glibc.

Is "robustness" like "not crashing loudly when used out-of-specs"? I'd
rather like to fix the bugs...

MfG, JBG

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References:
- glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?
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- Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?
  - From: Jeremy Linton

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