Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception

2006-01-17 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Am Dienstag 17 Januar 2006 03:18 schrieb Grant Grundler: > Debian "testing" (etch) is officially using gcc 4.0, right? > Does Debian promote binaries from "unstable" (using gcc 4.1) to "testing"? unstable is using 4.0, too. gcc-4.1 only is in experimental atm. Regards, Rene -- .''`. René

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:43:37PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:03:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > This is a pretty short list... Would anyone object to binNMUs of the > > > effected packages on hppa, once a fixed glibc is uploaded? > > If the bug is in glibc,

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception

2006-01-16 Thread John David Anglin
> Debian "testing" (etch) is officially using gcc 4.0, right? The biggest impact is on glibc and code that uses the math "c" routines, like csqrt () in libm. I don't have any idea how many packages this affects, but I doubt it's a lot. This isn't an issue for hpux since the HP library doesn't pr

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception

2006-01-16 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:52:34PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote: > > > The > > > only reason they would need rebuilt after a glibc bug fix would be if the > > > glibc ABI changed in the process, and that would be Very Bad. > > > > Yeah, hopefully that doesn't happen. > > As I have previously

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception

2006-01-16 Thread John David Anglin
> > The > > only reason they would need rebuilt after a glibc bug fix would be if the > > glibc ABI changed in the process, and that would be Very Bad. > > Yeah, hopefully that doesn't happen. As I have previously mentioned, there is a pending ABI issue affecting the passing of complex and vect

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:03:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > This is a pretty short list... Would anyone object to binNMUs of the > > effected packages on hppa, once a fixed glibc is uploaded? > > If the bug is in glibc, why would any of these packages need binNMUs? Only if they were stati

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:03:59AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > If the bug is in glibc, why would any of these packages need binNMUs? The > only reason they would need rebuilt after a glibc bug fix would be if the > glibc ABI changed in the process, and that would be Very Bad. > You are, of cou

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:22:12PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:38:36AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > > > This affects packages that use feholdexcept and > > > fesetenv, such as uic from QT. > > It's n

Re: [parisc-linux] [Fwd: [patch/hppa] Floating point exception handling patch]

2006-01-16 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:22:12PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:38:36AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > > This affects packages that use feholdexcept and > > fesetenv, such as uic from QT. > > It's not a very long list. I hacked the following short script > to search a