On 22/06/10 15:42, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 08:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 06/22/2010 08:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> Cool, that's what I expected from the names.
>>> So do we just need to move a docs around a little like:
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that looks like an appropriate patch. Please
* Brett Smith wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:26:19PM CEST:
> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:33 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > These scripts are all maintained in the Automake source tree; the
> > canonical upstream for symlink-tree is the GCC source tree.
>
> Understood. I should explain: the reas
On 06/22/2010 08:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Cool, that's what I expected from the names.
> So do we just need to move a docs around a little like:
>
> diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/memmem.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/memmem.texi
> index c7e3d73..7d34817 100644
> --- a/doc/glibc-functions/memme
On 06/22/2010 08:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 08:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Cool, that's what I expected from the names.
>> So do we just need to move a docs around a little like:
>>
>
> Yes, that looks like an appropriate patch. Please apply.
I spoke too soon. We would also nee
On 22/06/10 15:09, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 03:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>
>> Note the docs for "memmem" say it fixes
>>
>> "This function returns incorrect values in some cases, such as when
>>given an empty needle: glibc <= 2.0, Cygwin 1.5.x."
>>
>> Could that functionality be r
On 06/22/2010 03:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11607
>
> Coincidentally, I was about to mail you about this :)
> Thanks for pointing out that bug which I was unaware of.
>
> I'm currently working on multibyte enhancements to coreutils
> and was usin
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:33 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > First, the scripts we're talking about are:
> >
> > * compile
> > * depcomp
> > * elisp-comp
> > * mdate-sh
> > * missing
> > * py-compile
> > * symlink-tree
> > * ylwrap
>
> These scripts are all maintained in the Automake source tree
On 06/21/2010 07:33 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> After reviewing the intended uses of these scripts, and their licensing
> history, we believe that an exception is not really necessary to allow
> proprietary software developers to use the scripts in the ways we expect
> them to. Thus, to kee
On 22/06/10 00:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> Meanwhile, glibc bug 11607 already complains that the time spent on
> factorization is extremely noticeable for short strings. I have not
> benchmarked things myself (partly because I don't know how cache-line
> effects would play into a benchmark), but do w
