Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

[Marco Gerards]

Peter Bruin <pjbruin@dds.nl> writes:

> I've put a couple of patches for glibc and the Hurd on
> http://huizen.dds.nl/~pjbruin/hurd/, together with a small bit of
> explanation.  Some of the patches (libc-powerpc.patch, dl-start.S,
> {ext2fs,libports,libshouldbeinlibc,libstore}.patch) are reasonably
> clean, while the rest is somewhat more hacked together.  Once I get a
> couple of annoying bugs fixed, I'll try to shape those into a nicer
> form.

Ahh, great work Peter!!


I had a really quick look at your patches, especially the ext2fs
patch. I have a little (perhaps stupid) question about this patch. I
usually use htons ntos, etc. for handling endianess. Was there a
reason not to use these functions? I'm really happy to see those
improvements for endianess :). I still wonder if other parts of the
Hurd won't have these problems...

Could you please write ChangeLog entries. I know this is boring work,
but that makes the code easier to read and it is a requirement for
submition AFAIK.

Thanks,
Marco