On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:42 PM, <randall.s.becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Explanation: I'm looking for comments on how best to handle the changes > below that are needed for the NonStop port. Ideally you'd send them as single patches, each of them describing why it makes sense generally (such as the s/read/xread/ line) or specifically for your arch (these #ifdefs and Makefile changes). > The hashmap.h and > transport-helper.c will not be included in the final patch as they have > already been communicated but did not make it into 2.16.0. > It is likely that some of the changes below are in the wrong files > (for example: NSIG, intptr_t) and should be moved. This is just the > current state of the port, as it grew (and fortunately shrank a lot) > over the past few years. My objective, as the platform maintainer, is > to clean it up, and to try to get the platform's modifications > included so that we can just (obviously) pull directly from the standard > repository and not have to apply these mods in future and focus on > any platform-related breakages. Thanks for keeping up with the latest version! The xread issue sounds like you found a bug across all platforms, which is valued by the wider community. So feel free to send individual patches and the list will get back to you. :) > Further: there are 6 known breakages that have been reported. The perl > issues relating to completion codes are being examined at present by the > platform support teams so are not addressed by this patch. For perl I'd suggest cc'ing Ævar (cc'd just now) as that seems his field of expertise. Thanks for such a report, Stefan
