From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Antipov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Aligned blocks management: obsolete? Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:07:15 +0400 Message-ID: <4EE60A93.9060401@yandex.ru> References: <4EE5B744.1090103@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323698839 4077 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2011 14:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:07:19 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 15:07:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra6X8-0006kL-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:07:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47338 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra6X6-0001FP-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:07:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra6Ww-0000x4-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra6Wn-0003Om-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.dev.rtsoft.ru ([213.79.90.226]:48242) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ra6Wn-0003OD-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:06:49 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 11812 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2011 14:06:45 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.5.146?) (192.168.1.70) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Dec 2011 14:06:45 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111115 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 213.79.90.226 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:146670 Archived-At: On 12/12/2011 05:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Can you please tell what you mean by that? Are you alluding to > lisp_align_malloc and its subroutines, or to something else? Yes. I'm just curious about comment above lisp_align_malloc - the comment references glibc-2.3.2, which was released ~8 years ago :-). > I hope Emacs is not on its way to become a glibc-only project. Quite > a few supported platforms don't use glibc: Cygwin, *BSD (AFAIK), > Windows. That's why I'm asking for. I suppose that any non-ancient glibc malloc doesn't require such a glitch in lisp_align_malloc any more - but I have no ideas about malloc implementation on other supported systems. Dmitry