Suspended bug reports

[Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>]

These are the suspended bug reports for glibc; now we are done with
2.1, it's time to revisit them.

* Localedef bugs: 207, 454, 838.
	Localedef rewrite is already planned.

* Pthreads bugs: 798, 836.
	Pthreads rewrite is already planned.  (Mark, Thomas: what
	are the odds this will be done for 2.2?)

* Malloc and huge blocks: 723, 930.
	Why are signed types used internally?

* Network header issues: 153, 247.
	POSIX doesn't specify these, Single Unix only has a tiny bit
	of netinet/in.h.

	The best policy, IMO, would be to mimic 4.4BSD as closely as
	possible.  This is what everyone else does, so it maximizes
	compatibility.  It would break backward source compat with
	some Linux-specific code; this can be handled by a feature
	select switch.

* Pthreads enhancement request: 857.
	Would be obsoleted by better kernel-level support for POSIX
	thread semantics; should wait for the pthreads rewrite; dunno
	how generally useful it would be.

* Stdio debugging-aid request: 436.
	I like this idea, it is useful and it would be analogous to
	other debug-related envariables we have already.  I think it
	didn't get implemented out of lack of interest - did we ever
	discuss it?

* Using libc from nonstandard location: 269.
	Is really a gcc issue.  The idea I said I had last year didn't
	pan out.  A general fix would take a total rewrite of the gcc
	driver and its spec language; possibly a good idea, not likely
	to happen anytime soon.

	Has anyone tried configuring+installing gcc and glibc with the
	same nonstandard prefix?  That might actually work.  If it
	doesn't, it's probably feasible to make it work.

zw