[PATCH 4/4] Add IS_IN (testsuite) and remaining fixes.

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Mon Feb 20 15:32:00 GMT 2017


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This change is looking good, it is a step in the right direction, and the
> addition of '*-internal' markup is useful.
>
> I still think we need a few improvements.
>
> I'd like two senior developers to review this.

That seems fair.  I expect not to have time to do any further work on
this until the weekend, so I want to say thank you now for the quick
reviews.

> - This is a step in the right direction. My instinct is to want to move
>   all the internal dependencies into functions in support/, but that's
>   quite a bit of work. Either way they would have to be identified before
>   being moved and your work does just that. Eventually I would hope that
>   all the tests go back to being compiled with tests, we remove tests-internal,
>   and only support/ functions can view the glibc internals through a well
>   defined API.

I agree with this in principle but I suspect it may be hard,
especially for the tests which are digging around inside the guts of
the dynamic linker.  And I want to be clear that I don't plan to do
any of it.  I don't have the time or the expertise.

zw



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