Changeset 8f9d03f for general/prog

Timestamp:

01/24/2024 04:03:50 PM (3 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, lazarus, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

8415d53

Parents:

9ed3cb8d

Message:

ruby: Update the explanation of ac_cv_func_qsort_r=no

Per Glibc maintainers, the Ruby code has been broken for a long time: if
a larger array is used in the test suite it will blow up with
Glibc-2.37 (and maybe earlier). Update the explanation to make it more
precise.

File:

• general/prog/ruby.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/prog/ruby.xml

@@ -182 +182 @@
       <parameter>ac_cv_func_qsort_r=no</parameter>: This switch prevents
       using the <function>qsort_r</function> function from Glibc.  Ruby
-      makes some aggressive optimization assuming
-      <function>qsort_r</function> would never allocate the buffer with
-      <function>malloc</function>, but the assumption is no longer true with
-      Glibc-2.39 or newer.  With this switch Ruby will use its own sort
+      makes some aggressive optimization assuming some implementation
+      details of the sorting algorithm, but the assumption is not true with
+      the Glibc implementation.  With this switch Ruby will use its own sort
       implementation instead.
     </para>