On March 12, 2016 12:18:02 AM GMT+01:00, Ivan Koldaev <[email protected]> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/04/2016 01:48 PM, Ivan Koldaev wrote: >>> Patch for uClibc++ bug #8741 >(https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8741) >>> >>> I have discovered that uClibc++ incorrectly implements C++ exception >>> ABI, allocating not enough memory in the >>> "__cxxabiv1::__cxa_allocate_exception": >> >> When I spoke to Garrett Kajmowicz on the phone last month, he said >that >> his previous day job stuck with last GPLv2 release of gcc, so he >stopped >> staying up to date with changes in the C++ specification after ~2007. >> Meaning he hasn't touched uClibc++ in years. >> >> He switched jobs recently (at Google now) but didn't seem >particularly >> interested in picking up where he left off after a multi-year gap. (I >> think they use LLVM internally there, and thus >http://libcxx.llvm.org/ ? >> I know Android and ChromeOS do, dunno about the web server plumbing >> stuff he's dealing with. It sounded more like AI research than >anything >> else, really...) >> >> I still use it in Aboriginal Linux, but only because I haven't >switched >> my toolchain to LLVM yet... >> >> Rob > >Rob, > >I appreciate your input. >I understand that original author stepped away from the uClibc++ >development, >but as I understand uClibc++ is not completely abandoned project, >since there are still commits dated 6 days ago >(https://git.uclibc.org/uClibc++/log/) by Bernhard Reutner-Fischer. >Also OpenWRT uses uClibc++ as a primary C++ library with the latest >GCC 5.2.x (luckily almost no program is using exceptions on embedded). >So if you are saying that posting to this list is not a right way to >have my patch accepted, could you please point me to the right one. >Thank you for your time. > >P.S. added Bernhard Reutner-Fischer into CC, because I hope for some >movement for this patch.
I have this scheduled, thanks. Will push together with a second patch as soon as I have written a trivial testcase for the second buglet. Thanks for the patch! Cheers, _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
