Fix Thumb-2 PIEs

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 11 23:50:21 UTC 2008


On Thursday 11 December 2008 04:44, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Right now, there are still two "old" linuxthreads branches in uClibc, and
> > > as far as I can tell we'll be supporting them in perpetuity.  (For a
> > > definition of "support" that involves leaving them alone unless somebody
> > > complains.)
> >
> > We need to stop doing that, though.
> 
> I tried arguing that a couple months back.  Good luck. :)
> 
> Once you have multiple implementations going in parallel that don't share 
> code, it's an AMAZING PAIN to stop doing it again because somebody somewhere 
> will fight to keep the one they're using.

Don't think so. Needs some work, yes. Like, "A is generally better
than B, but has these two annoying bugs X and Y and misses feature Z".
So, you fix X and Y and add Z. And then delete B.

> (The multi-shell situation in  
> busybox is similar.)

lash is gone. As soon as hush will get here documents (IIRC that's
its "feature Z"), venerable msh can go too. It's more buggy
and bigger than hush.
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vda



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