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Message-ID: <20121119042120.GX20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:21:20 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Remaining agenda for 0.9.8
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 08:55:00PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> PowerPC port issues:
> - adding dynamic linking support
> - resolving which definition of long double we'll use/support
Done.
> - checking for remaining omissions/bugs/etc.
Possibly some issues with clone failing to report errors; still
looking into this. Otherwise, I'm not aware of any _known_ problems
left with the powerpc port.
> Improving app compat:
> - integrating sys/mtio.h
> - integrating sys/io.h port io stuff
Done.
> - exposing sigreturn stuff needed by libunwind (?)
I spent some time looking into what's needed for libunwind to work,
and it seems a good bit more ucontext-level stuff is needed before
there's any hope of using it. So the lack of exposed sigreturn is a
relatively small problem.
> In addition, there are a few things still pending that probably won't
> make it into this release cycle, but I'd like to keep them in mind
> anyway:
>
> - priority inheritance mutexes
I added stubs for most or all of the related interfaces, I think.
Actual implementations will come later.
> - named subarch support (armeb, arm-hardfloat, mips-softfloat, etc.)
> - math_errhandling for archs without fenv
> - major documentation improvement
These will all have to wait, I think.
Rich
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