Comment 5 for bug 1663280

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Vinson Lee (vlee) wrote :

Please backport these upstream glibc patches to 16.04 xenial glibc-2.23. These patches are already in upstream glibc-2.24.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=f43cb35c9b3c35addc6dc0f1427caf51786ca1d2
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=fb0f7a6755c1bfaec38f490fbfcaa39a66ee3604
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=c15f8eb50cea7ad1a4ccece6e0982bf426d52c00

These patches were not backported to upstream glibc-2.23 because the build requirements would have needed to be bumped to binutils-2.24. However, 16.04 xenial is already on binutils-2.26 and would not be restricted by this build requirement change.