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Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Progress: Porting Relibc to gentoo
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On 19/07/2020 22:42, Ahmed Soliman wrote:
> So this week has been full of new stuff, I have finally have a clean
> implementation for a memory allocation model based on mspaces that
> fixes the old issue where we had two identical copies of malloc
> accessing the same brk(), without sharing metadata at [1].
> 
> I also finalized my dlopen dlsym and dlclose implementation you can
> find it at [2]
> 
> And I fixed an old bug regarding TLS resolving (I attempted fixing it
> before but it seems that my old fix was not working) at [3].
> 
> Unfortunately, that is not enough for GCC to compile with relibc based
> binutils; there are still more bugs, but with every step we are
> getting closer..
> 
> Thanks
> Ahmed.
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/-/merge_requests/295
> [2] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/-/merge_requests/290
> [3] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/-/merge_requests/294
> 

Please make sure to track what features were missing from the beginning
till now :)

It will be quite important in the future.

lu