Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > I am confused. My interest in libgcc-math is that it helps solve | > thorny issues with libstdc++-v3 and my expectation is that we can make | > modification to libgcc-math so that we can't advantage of it. Now, I | > understand that we cannot make modification to libgcc-math without | > modifying GLIBC? Is that correct. | | Yes, that is correct. It would take additional special dispensation | from the FSF to modify the GLIBC code. RMS wants such modifications to | be submitted upstream first, to avoid forks. You could ask RMS for that | additional permission, if you want.
Thanks for the clarification. | Please do not ask me to interpret or justify all of the rules; I don't | understand the issues sufficiently well. I am just passing along the | results of a long discussion with RMS on the SC list. I understand :-) Did I know this implication, and given past difficulty to communicate with GLIBC people, I'm not sure I did the right thing (e.g. being enthousiastic about libgcc-math). -- Gaby
