Hi Reinhard,
> Detlev Zundel schrieb:
>
>>> Detlev, regarding the discussion I would only point out that we have to
>>> be sure that such kind of patch will be merged in the current release.
>>> It would be a real pity if a new official realease is published and then
>>> even a simple "md" command does not work on ARM.
>>
>> I don't see a problem here. All proposed patches (with/without
>> attribute and union) surely fix a bug, so they will go into mainline
>> when consent is reached on which one to use. This should well happen
>> before the pending release on September 12th[1].
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding anything here?
>
> No... but I would require that the "union" approach would be wanted,
> BEFORE I put effort into doing it.
I'd very much appreciate your effort as I want the solution now that you
did whet my appetite.
Thanks
Detlev
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