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unbloat crtstuff from gcc

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rich felker suggests the following change to musl-cross: http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2014/06/16/2

``` libtool: install: (cd /src/build/gtk+2/gtk+-2.24.10/gtk; /bin/bash /src/build/gtk+2/gtk+-2.24.10/libtool --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -version-info 2400:10:2400 -export-dynamic -export-symbols-regex "^[^_].*" -rpath /lib -o libgtk-x11-2.0.la gtkquery.lo [...] ../gdk/libgdk-x11-2.0.la -lpangocairo-1.0 -lX11 -lXdamage -lXfixes...

if -isystem /my/default/include is used, /my/default/include is passed unfiltered to ar invocation. PoC patch fixing it: ``` diff --- a/mlibtool.c +++ b/mlibtool.c @@ -1075,6 +1075,11 @@ static void ltlink(struct Options...

dliterate-phdr.patch seems to break glibc c++ exception handling

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=7208

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=32830&action=edit from https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61144

type-punned pointers

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``` src/gfx/objhdr.c: In function 'objhdr_draw': src/gfx/objhdr.c:230:4: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing] gfx_rect(destination, &dest, *(Uint32*)&object->surface); ^~~~~~~~ src/gui/filebox.c: In function 'pick_file_action': src/gui/filebox.c:385:2: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break...

based on "Compute parity in parallel" example on http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

this was discovered running the core side-by-side with the cycle-stepped emulator of floooh (which is a lot slower). according to a comment here (line 80): https://github.com/anotherlin/z80emu/blob/1c418fa0d719abab9273131113defbe276101d95/README.txt zexall doesn't exercise the...

can a release be made ?

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i've seen the sourceware git repo is still active. since the last insight release 6.8.1 is ten years old, it'd be nice if finally a release could be produced, since...

those functions are insecure and in the case of strcat even slow, since the strlen has to be checked on each call. they are considered a code-smell; instead, snprintf should...