From: Maxim Kuvyrkov <ma...@codesourcery.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:40:55 +1300
> 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. I personally don't think this is acceptable, critical path or not.
