On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > For the other pieces that are missing perhaps my work I did many years > ago to port glibc 2.4 (the last one I was able to cook up without NPTL), > and specifically libm within, to the never-upstreamed VAX/Linux target > might be useful to complete the effort, as there seems to be an overlap > here. That port hasn't been fully verified though and I do not promise > doing any work related to it anytime either. The glibc patches continue > being available online to download and use under the terms of the GNU GPL > for anyone though.
I think I mentioned before: if you wish to bring a VAX port back to current glibc, I think it would make more sense to use software IEEE floating point rather than adding new support to glibc for a non-IEEE floating-point format. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
