Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-24 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: In the light of your inability to answer the simplest questions about the correctness and usefulness of this patch, I propose we strike the patch in its entirety. Let me make something very clear to you: what I am doing

RE: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-24 Thread Travis Vitek
Comments below... -Original Message- From: Stefan Teleman Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 5:46 AM Subject: Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks] On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: In the light of your inability to answer the simplest

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 09/16/12 12:03, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: I merely wanted to point out that restoring the default packing is not the same as restoring the packing to the previous value in effect. Given this, I thought about an alternative

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: To be honest it's quite bizarre that you cannot share that with us. Is it really a trade secret? How can that be the case if Oracle customers are also required to perform the same alignment, perhaps using the same

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 9/23/12 3:48 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: To be honest it's quite bizarre that you cannot share that with us. Is it really a trade secret? How can that be the case if Oracle customers are also required to perform the same

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Stefan Teleman stefan.tele...@gmail.com wrote: The second URL says this: QUOTE Due to a change in the implementation of the userland mutexes introduced by CR 6296770 in KU 137111-01, objects of type mutex_t and pthread_mutex_t must start at 8-byte aligned

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 9/23/12 5:50 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Stefan Teleman stefan.tele...@gmail.com wrote: The second URL says this: QUOTE Due to a change in the implementation of the userland mutexes introduced by CR 6296770 in KU 137111-01, objects of type mutex_t and

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-23 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: I am not asking for any other implementation and I am not looking to change anything. I wish you could explain it to us, but in the absence of trade secret details I will take an explanation for the questions above.

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-15 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 9/15/12 2:57 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: I have read through the patches attached to the incident, then I briefly read about the SunPro pragma align and pack. Two questions: 1. AFAICT, the use of the packing pragma may

Re: STDCXX-1066 [was: Re: STDCXX forks]

2012-09-15 Thread Liviu Nicoara
On 9/15/12 5:19 PM, Stefan Teleman wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Liviu Nicoara nikko...@hates.ms wrote: Yes, but it restores the default packing, not an arbitrary one, potentially set by the user prior to including our headers. Say, the user sets 2, the default is 4 and we set 8.