On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Joern Rennecke wrote: >>>> But readers will focus on the word "Issue" here and think that there is >>>> something missing. Perhaps there should be a footnote explaining that >>>> glibc/eglibc has the needed support, but that other libraries might not. >>> I agree. It should say something as "Library Dependent", and report >>> glibc status. > It still makes sense to clarify the language to indicate that, depending on > the library used, this might be, in fact, a library non-issue. > [...] > I agree that trying to track every library there would be a maintenance > burden, but giving one example of a library that works is meaningful. > And, since GCC is still a GNU project, mentioning the status of GNU libc > doesn't seem that arbitrary.
Can you propose a change along these lines? I think it does make sense, both to be more clear on what may be a (non-)issue and to refer to GNU libc as a reference implementation where that makes sense. Gerald
