Building is not such a big achievement, what's more interesting is to know whether it actually works?
As in, was there extensive testing to prove there are no regressions compared to the glibc version?
As in, was there extensive testing to prove there are no regressions compared to the glibc version?
I agree with you though -- an extensive testing setup will reveal more things for improvement, be it in my patch or in the libc itself. At the moment I only have direct access to Debian 11/Fedora 35/FreeBSD 13, but I expect we will soon find a nice way to run tests across the different operating systems automatically. One of my ideas was to setup a separate drive or folder with all the executables, accessible from different operating systems/VMs, and then run the tests from each. What do you think?
Here apparently the changes are mostly related to error handling, and I guess that's not something that's very well tested with normal usage.