Hi, Von: Artur Wyszynski <aljen-mlists@xxxxxxx> > while i was trying to port Chrome to Haiku, i came across a problem with > broken/missing wide chars support > (Chrome is using them everywhere), looking at current libroot status i > noticed a mix composed by different > versions of glibc with some features enabled/disabled and some ports of > bsd code there. > Then i removed completly glibc and friends mixes from libroot and > started porting libc and Sun math library from FreeBSD. > Now it's working as expected, with full posix support (even c99), wide > chars enabled, support for locales, etc. > Don't worry, it won't break binary compatibility, because it's ported & > enabled only for gcc4 build, gcc2 is still using old > libroot+glibc&friends. Wow, that must have been some work load! > Things noticed by me (and not only, thx for testing guys :P): > * system is noticable faster compared to other builds, i mean gui and > boot; for virtual box on my machine (dont know how others and i didn't > tested this on real hardware yet) boot time was decrased from 24-26 > seconds to 14 (don't know the reason) > * gui is more responsible, i think it's because new sun math library I am currently compiling an image with the patch. Looking forward to seeing it in action. Impatient question: Are we using another allocator now? Best regards, -Stephan