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Re: glibc 2.31: hard freeze on Friday, 31st Jan

* Adhemerval Zanella:

> Based on the extended asm and local register variable usage with GCC on
> the 'powerpc Linux scv support and scv system call ABI proposal' I think
> we hit a nasty latent sparc issue I am seeing at least on sparc32 tests
> (it clobbers the syscalls result and make some calls to clock_nanosleep
> to not act as a cancellation entrypoint).
>
> I am working on a solution, do you think we should push it after the
> release branch is created or can we hold a day or two?

I expect it will take considerable time for the GCC developers to agree
on the actual semantics of local register variables.  I do not think we
should hold the glibc release for it.  We can backport fixes as needed.

Thanks,
Florian
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