From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Drepper Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dumping bug explained? Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:40:24 -0700 Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: <4651CB78.2040402@redhat.com> References: <87k5v2l0uh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lkfikzpt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179768158 24580 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 17:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Andreas Schwab , Chip Coldwell , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 19:22:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HqBae-0000Jh-Na for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 19:22:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqBae-0000CW-6f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 13:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqAwA-0005Cq-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HqAw7-0005C2-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HqAw7-0005Bw-Dv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HqAw5-0008Tn-GA; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LGeYjx031587; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:34 -0400 Original-Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.154]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4LGeXi3006788; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:33 -0400 Original-Received: from myware66.akkadia.org (vpn-14-8.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.8]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id l4LGeWJ3023577; Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:32 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) In-Reply-To: <87lkfikzpt.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mx1.redhat.com id l4LGeYjx031587 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:21:58 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:71532 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chong Yidong wrote: > Do you know if Emacs will still need to be patched after these changes > to glibc are done? Not all the symptoms described in the bug can be explained by the changes. It might very well be that changes are needed. In general, the use of malloc in emacs is horrific. We are now going to work around some of problems created by the changes when it comes to assumptions emacs makes, but there is no guarantee that we can keep this = up. - -- =E2=9E=A7 Ulrich Drepper =E2=9E=A7 Red Hat, Inc. =E2=9E=A7 444 Castro St = =E2=9E=A7 Mountain View, CA =E2=9D=96 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUct42ijCOnn/RHQRAnuXAKChmJ9SwrUbeQeTmXNwwUB1RNI4ggCgxyNJ zyTm12a0Glz8SK3Fs5/0qQU=3D =3DDUhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----