From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBCw61sa2E=?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Replacing malloc_get_state functionality. Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:05:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20140224150505.GA15014@domone.podge> References: <20140220232941.GA2929@domone.podge> <53070258.5090804@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393254825 16632 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2014 15:13:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 16:13:53 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxE8-0004Jo-U5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:13:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxE8-00087J-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxE0-0007wB-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:13:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxDr-00032A-Jj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.20.131]:44805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxDr-0002x4-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:13:35 -0500 Original-Received: from domone.kolej.mff.cuni.cz (popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.20.131]) by popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B77356F52; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:05:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by domone.kolej.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 233045F980; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:05:05 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53070258.5090804@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at popelka.ms.mff.cuni.cz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.113.20.131 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169839 Archived-At: On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:38:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Ond=C5=99ej B=C3=ADlka wrote: > >I as glibc contributor want to ask how feasible is replacing > >malloc_get_state functionality in unexec by something else. > >If so we could deprecate it for new binaries and use better malloc. >=20 > It's feasible. You can run an Emacs today that doesn't use glibc's > malloc_get_state. Configure Emacs like this: >=20 > ./configure emacs_cv_var_doug_lea_malloc=3Dno >=20 > This tells 'configure' to assume that malloc_get_state does not work. Thanks, so we could remove it and you will not be affected much?