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, -- Maxim Kuvyrkov CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics