On 29/09/2011, at 7:35 AM, David Miller wrote:

> From: Maxim Kuvyrkov <ma...@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:29:12 +1300
> 
>> GLIBC patch to fix locale_t definition is attached.
> 
> Isn't this going to result in byte loads being used to dereference
> all locale_t pointers on targets like sparc and mips?

Yes, that's the price for binary compatibility for comparing a pointer to -1.  
I just hope that no common program has locale functions on its critical path.

Thank you,

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Maxim Kuvyrkov
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics


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