[Valgrind-developers] 1.0.X possibilities

[Julian S. <js...@ac...>]

Good news.  After peering at weird segfaults on Red Hat Null (8.0 beta)
last night, I can see that it might be possible to assemble enough hacks
so that the stable branch will work on R H 8.  Assuming that they haven't
changed the threading model used in the transition between the "null" 
final beta and 8.0 itself, which doesn't sound likely.  I thought that
8.0 would use glibc-2.3, but apparently it is only at 2.2.93, so we 
don't have to deal yet with big threading changes.

I had expected only to be able to support R H 8 on the head, using the
LDT/GDT support, but it seems that might not be necessary.

Vague plan therefore is to assemble this and various other bugfixes into
1.0.4 and release that within about a week.  I still plan to make a 
snapshot release of the head as 1.1.0 in the next couple of days, for
the more adventurous.

J