On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:27:12AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > > and if you look at glibc's memset() function, you'll notice that's exactly > > what you expect if you pass a non-8bit value to it. Ergo, what you're > > seeing is utterly expected given glibc's memset() implementation on ARM. > > Guys, you _really_ should fix memset(). What you describe is a _bug_.
Yup, but I have nothing to do with glibc because I refuse to do that silly copyright assignment FSF thing. Hopefully someone else can resolve it, but... > > Fixing Linus' test program to pass nr & 255 to memset > > No. I'm almost certain that that is not a "fix", it's a workaround for a > serious bug in your glibc crap. _is_ a fix whether _you_ like it or not to work around the issue so people can at least run your test program. I'm not saying it's a proper fix though. Of course, if you prefer to be mislead by incorrect bug reports... -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
