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@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@ TODO list for the uClibc 0.9.27 release: ------------------------------------------------- - *) Implement some mechanism (perhaps encoded in the .so name, - perhaps using an abi tag magically embedded into each object) - for flagging config options that break the ABI. Options - such as UCLIBC_HAS_SOFT_FLOAT, UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS, UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE, - and perhaps others (finalize list) produce a lib with a differing - ABI. Make it so apps cannot use an ABI mis-matched uClibc. *) Fix syscall() on mips - *) Finish up current ldso cleanups - *) Fix dlopen, for both static and dynamic cases, and make it - actually comply with SuSv3 *) Fix use of __secure in __uClibc_init() for so that we prevent starting staticly linked SUID binaries where the standard file descriptors are not opened. For dynamically linked binaries, ldso does this for us. + *) Audit header files. Remove prototypes for all functions that + are not supported -- especially needed for the libm headers. + *) Audit header files. When options are disabled, also disable + them in the include files as well by checking for the proper + define from include/bits/uClibc_config.h (pulled in from features.h) TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release: @@ -29,20 +25,19 @@ TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release: *) Update docs/uClibc_vs_SuSv3.txt document *) Update docs/threads.txt document *) Write man pages for ldd and ldconfig utility binaries + *) Implement some mechanism (perhaps encoded in the .so name, + perhaps using an abi tag magically embedded into each object) + for flagging config options that break the ABI. Options + such as UCLIBC_HAS_SOFT_FLOAT, UCLIBC_HAS_THREADS, UCLIBC_HAS_LOCALE, + and perhaps others (finalize list) produce a lib with a differing + ABI. Make it so apps cannot use an ABI mis-matched uClibc. + This is most easily done using symbol versioning... *) Perhaps implement glibc style frame-unwinding, so that gcc need not be built with --enable-sjlj-exceptions for C++ exception handling to work. *) Implement the float and long double versions of math funcs using wrappers on top of the double versions (size / precision trade off where size clearly wins). - *) Fix profiling by adding missing stub functions per - http://uclibc.org/lists/uclibc/2004-February/008167.html - and used by, i.e. http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~yperret/fnccheck/ - *) Audit header files. Remove prototypes for all functions that - are not supported -- especially needed for the libm headers. - *) Audit header files. When options are disabled, also disable - them in the include files as well by checking for the proper - define from include/bits/uClibc_config.h (pulled in from features.h) *) Make all small objects (>~50 bytes) into either inlines or into a static library *) Cleanup / rewrite sysconf.c. It should get some information @@ -53,14 +48,6 @@ TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release: memory for destructors, which happens since the dynamic linker calls atexit(), which calls malloc() prior to valgrind starting, so valgrind complains because it didn't see that memory allocated. - *) From the the ELF spec "...All shared object initializations happen - before the executable file gains control. ... Before the initialization - code for any object A is called, the initialization code for any other - objects that object A depends on are called. For these purposes, an object - A depends on another object B, if B appears in Ads list of needed objects - (recorded in the DT_NEEDED entries of the dynamic structure). The order of - initialization for circular dependencies is undefined." uClibc's shared - lib loader should be fixed to run ctors in the specified order. *) poll emulation using select() for old 2.0.x uClinux kernels in libc/sysdeps/linux/common/poll.c fails some python self-tests. Of course, modern systems using the actuall poll() syscall work fine. @@ -68,9 +55,10 @@ TODO list for the uClibc 1.0.0 release: *) Build both pic and non-pic objects where appropriate, so that static libs need not pay the pic size penalty. *) Cleanup/scrub all the Makefile copyright junk - *) Debugging pthreads with gdb does not work at all on mips - *) Debugging pthreads with gdb initially appears to work, but - fails to function correctly on arm + *) Debugging pthreads with gdb does not work at all on mips unless + the application is staticly linked. + *) Fix dlopen, for both static and dynamic cases, and make it + fully comply with SuSv3 TODO list for AFTER the uClibc 1.0.0 release: |