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Re: Ping Re: PowerPC E500 port
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org, sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Ping Re: PowerPC E500 port
> Different trade-offs are appropriate for users of different C libraries;
> newlib and uClibc use a different implementation that's smaller but less
> accurate. Existing practice regarding ABI-specified functions when they
> aren't of the nature of functions generally included in libgcc puts them
> in libc (e.g., the ARM EABI functions in glibc).
Ok, I don't much care for an obscure port.
I would not repeat that mistake the future, however.
New machine-independent user interfaces belong in separate libraries.
> Existing practice with users of this code has both the GLIBC_2.3.3 and
> GLIBC_2.5 symbols. Existing practice for development of new ports is to
> develop the code (using versions current at that time) and get it in use
> among users of that hardware, then merge in with the same symbol versions
> as are in use in the field (so ColdFire was merged with GLIBC_2.4 version
> although that merge was just after 2.5 branched).
Ok.
Thanks,
Roland