linux-kernel - Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc

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Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 17:37:15 +0100
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Helmut Grohne <helmut@...divi.de>,
        GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, metcalf@...m.mit.edu,
        Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb@....uio.no>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: remove the "tile" architecture from glibc

On 03/09/2018 05:31 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Note that SH glibc test results need some work - there are a large number 
> of failures listed at <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.27#SH>.  
> Probably most could be addressed with the NaN fixes I outlined at 
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-02/msg00440.html> - but that 
> does of course need someone to do the work to implement that in GCC and 
> glibc.  (The stdlib/tst-tininess failure is stranger; SH manuals don't 
> seem very specific on this, but the existing setting was definitely 
> determined by testing on hardware.  SH experts with access to a range of 
> different hardware may be needed to advise on what different hardware does 
> or is supposed to do in this regard.)

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

On a sidenote: Is there documentation somewhere which explains how to properly
run the glibc testsuite? I would then go ahead and run it on my Amiga 4000
for m68k.

Adrian

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