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Message-ID: <20130613154625.GA23252@newbook> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:46:25 -0700 From: Isaac <idunham@...abit.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Thinking about release On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:25:17PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > Hi all, > > It's been mentioned that we're overdue for a release, and it looks > like we have a fair amount of new stuff since the last release. Major > changes so far: > > - Accepting \n in dynamic linker path file > - Fixed broken x86_64 sigsetjmp > - Removed wrong C++ __STDC_*_MACROS checks > - Thread exit synchronization issues > - Conforming overflow behavior in clock() > - Support for large device numbers > - Math optimizations on i386 > - C11 float.h macro additions > - Fixes for exceptions in fma (gcc bug workarounds) > - Fix misaligned stack when running ctors/dtors > - Support for %m modifier in scanf > - Support for using gcc intrinsic headers with musl-gcc wrapper > - PRNG fixes > - Per-process and per-thread cputime clocks and new(ish) Linux clocks > > I think the ether.h functions could definitely still make it in for > this release too. inet_makeaddr, etc. could probably also be merged. ether.h is needed for a full build of busybox: $ grep -r ether_aton_r */ networking/udhcp/files.c: if (!mac_string || !ether_aton_r(mac_string, &mac_bytes)) networking/ether-wake.c: eap = ether_aton_r(hostid, eaddr); networking/nameif.c: ch->mac = ether_aton_r(selector + (strncmp(selector, "mac=", 4) != 0 ? 0 : 4), lmac); $ grep -r ether_ntoa */ networking/ether-wake.c: bb_debug_msg("The target station address is %s\n\n", ether_ntoa(eap)); networking/ether-wake.c: bb_debug_msg("Station address for hostname %s is %s\n\n", hostid, ether_ntoa(eaddr)); networking/zcip.c: ether_ntoa(sha), networking/zcip.c: ether_ntoa(tha), networking/arping.c: ether_ntoa((struct ether_addr *) p)); networking/arping.c: ether_ntoa((struct ether_addr *) p + ah->ar_hln + 4)); Most of these aren't universally needed, but I wanted to enable some of them. Right now, I'm using Strake's patch and compiling musl with -Os. Of course, these aren't going to be enough to make busybox allyesconfig work right; I also ran into the following issues building busybox: -<sys/personality.h> needs the macros from <linux/personality.h> (for setarch) -A few cases of using extra headers that break the busybox build: <net/if_slip.h> can be changed to <linux/if_slip.h> <net/if_packet.h> is included (needlessly for musl) in networking/libiproute/iplink.c; this header is roughly the macros from <sys/socket.h> + struct sockaddr_pkt <netinet/ether.h> is used in arp and zcip -CONFIG_COMPAT_EXTRA turns on use of glibc regex.h extensions in grep. -Of course, vi still uses glibc regexes if you enable search and replace. > Rich HTH, Isaac Dunham
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