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Re: syncing regcomp.c with glibc, or further diverging, or applying patc


From: Konstantin Serebryany
Subject: Re: syncing regcomp.c with glibc, or further diverging, or applying patches separately.
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:49:27 -0700

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Konstantin Serebryany wrote:
>>
>> But some patches are not applied to Gnulib:
>> e.g. in Glibc's commit 39a12f8db4656bec88ebd51e524778ef2e5468b9 or
>> 8c0ab919f63dc03a420751172602a52d2bea59a8
>
>
> That's only because we haven't synced from glibc to gnulib since August.
>
>> Do you have a suggestion regarding the patch discussed in
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-09/msg00663.html?
>> The patch does not lead to a functionality change, but affects the
>> sources significantly (560 line diff)
>>
>> Is that ok to apply it only to Glibc?
>> Or would you like to have it for Gnulib too?
>
>
> We'd apply it for Gnulib too, as we prefer to keep the sources in sync as
> much as possible.

Great!

>That patch applies only to "#ifdef _LIBC" code, right?

Most of it, at least.

Thanks,

--kcc

> So Gnulib users shouldn't care about the change anyway.



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