[PATCH 2/2] NEWS: Move testsuite item to end (more developer-oriented)

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Jan 27 12:37:49 GMT 2025



On 26/01/25 18:54, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> No text changes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>

I am not sure if this makes any difference.

> ---
>  NEWS | 34 +++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 61031c73ed..8137e2c1a0 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -9,19 +9,6 @@ Version 2.41
>  
>  Major new features:
>  
> -* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
> -  different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
> -  added:
> -  $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
> -
> -  This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
> -  $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
> -
> -  Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
> -
> -* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
> -  6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
> -
>  * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
>    flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
>    For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
> @@ -112,18 +99,27 @@ Major new features:
>  * A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
>    support Hygon x86-64 processors.
>  
> +* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
> +  different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
> +  added:
> +  $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
> +
> +  This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
> +  $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
> +
> +  Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
> +
> +* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
> +  6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
> +
>  Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
>  compatibility:
>  
> -* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> -
>  * abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
>    from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp.  Use
>    sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
>    the process execution.
>  
> -* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> -
>  * dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
>    library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
>    ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
> @@ -131,6 +127,10 @@ compatibility:
>    stack is not already executable.  Instead, loading such objects will
>    fail.
>  
> +* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
> +
> +* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
> +
>  Changes to build and runtime requirements:
>  
>  * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does



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