This function is a joke. Don't you have better things to do? It's not worth arguing about and so to safe me time I added a modifeed versson of the patch.
Stop wasting people's time! Nobody cares about this crap. I made a last change but it's just too embarasing to even admit that.
— Ulrich Drepper. Found via Debian developer on Planet Debian. This is hilarious, like a character from a comedy skit or something.