The motivation for this request is not to hoard them, but to avoid the situation where the general glibc user base naively attempts to use the snapshots, has trouble with them, complains publically, and the reputation of glibc declines because of a perception of instability or lack of quality control. A test suite is distributed as an integral part of the snapshots. A failure might not originate from a bug in glibc but also from bugs in the tools, e.g. with gcc 2.7.2.x the math tests fail some of the tests because of compiler bugs. Note that the test suite is still in its infancy. The tests themselves only cover a small portion of libc features, and where tests do exist for a feature they are not exhaustive.
New tests are welcome.
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