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Re: Update on freeze status of glibc 2.18?


> Apply the Fedora patch for the problem:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/glibc.git/diff/glibc-rh911307.patch?id=6cfdaac5b6b98b0810253d20e3cb4e069f432ec6
> 
> We could apply this for 2.18 as a band-aid to the gcc problem,
> but it would need more massaging, like only enabling when configure
> detects the transformation is present.

For the case of memset being compiled to call itself or whatnot, I don't
think we have a problem that needs a workaround ("band-aid") or any GCC
change.  It just needs the actual fix, which is using __attribute__ to mark
those functions.


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