Re: Bug#887327: gcc-7: missed optimization of glibc strspn SSE 4.2 variant

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 + patch

On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Instead it looks like fixing PR81481 [1] on the GCC 7 side, and then
> > rebuilding glibc is the way to go. I am therefore cloning this bug to
> > gcc-7 so that it can happens.
> 
> Note that the bug has now been fixed upstream. Tagging this bug as such.

The patch has been backported to gcc-7 upstream, it's here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?view=revision&revision=256731

Can we please get this patch into Debian soon? The broken glibc is
not only impacting steam games but also busybox sh which leads to
many kernel panic reports on i386, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886506#34

Cheers,
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Processed: Re: Bug#887327: gcc-7: missed optimization of glibc strspn SSE 4.2 variant

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Processing control commands:

> severity -1 important
Bug #887327 [gcc-7] gcc-7: missed optimization of glibc strspn SSE 4.2 variant
Severity set to 'important' from 'normal'
> tag -1 + patch
Bug #887327 [gcc-7] gcc-7: missed optimization of glibc strspn SSE 4.2 variant
Added tag(s) patch.

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