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From: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Cc: 521737@bugs.debian.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: current state of sid (unstable)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:53:06 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA03F52.8010203@orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C973504.3020602@orcon.net.nz>

On 20/09/10 22:18, Michael Cree wrote:
> On 04/08/10 09:35, Michael Cree wrote:
>> On 4/08/2010, at 1:48 AM, Bob Tracy wrote:
>>> (5) Some long-standing compiler and libc issues have been fixed
>>> upstream and in Debian, but recently, a build of libc in Debian
>>> Unstable failed.
>>
>> I see the memchr seg fault bug (521737) is still open. I have a hunch
>> that it may be a false-positive,
>
> Darn, it's a true-positive.

A new version of memchr is now upstream in the glibc ports repository 
(many thanks to RTH). In addition to fixing the seg fault it is more 
than twice as fast as the old version when searching through large 
memory buffers.

Cheers
Michael.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27  6:53 UTC|newest]

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2010-09-20 10:18   ` current state of sid (unstable) Michael Cree
2010-09-27  6:53     ` Michael Cree [this message]

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