From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:33:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <569CDB81.6040600@redhat.com> (raw)
Hi,
this is a heads-up that glibc malloc will likely remove support code for
the Emacs unexec mechanism during the coming year. The reason is that
we want to be able to change heap layout between glibc releases, for
standards conformance, performance and security improvements:
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19473>
This only affects the glibc API, so Emacs is unlikely to compile from
source until you remove the undump mechanism. We will work very hard to
keep existing Emacs binaries working, but we might miss some corner
cases initially. Those will be treated as bugs and fixed (although this
causes a significant ongoing maintenance overhead for glibc upstream,
basically maintaining a separate malloc implementation indefinitely).
Florian
next reply other threads:[~2016-01-18 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 12:33 Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-01-18 19:20 ` Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc John Wiegley
2016-01-18 20:27 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 13:52 ` Should Glibc API be changed? Richard Stallman
2016-01-19 16:40 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-20 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-20 17:07 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-23 5:56 ` Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 22:08 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-18 22:45 ` Ali Bahrami
2016-01-18 23:45 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-19 0:45 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-01-19 0:56 ` Ali Bahrami
2016-01-19 1:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-19 1:44 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-01-19 1:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-19 3:10 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-01-19 3:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-19 7:03 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 8:36 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-01-19 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-19 1:45 ` Ali Bahrami
2016-01-19 2:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-19 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-20 7:43 ` David Caldwell
2016-01-20 9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 3:01 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-21 3:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-19 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-19 20:37 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-01-20 2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-23 13:51 ` Michael Sperber
2016-01-23 20:36 ` Marcus Crestani
2016-01-19 23:53 ` Sam Steingold
2016-01-18 19:24 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-18 19:30 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-18 19:47 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 19:54 ` Zack Weinberg
2016-01-18 19:55 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 22:27 ` Joseph Myers
2016-01-18 23:16 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-18 19:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-18 19:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 20:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 22:10 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-01-18 22:12 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 22:36 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-01-23 5:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-18 20:24 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-01-18 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 20:36 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-01-18 22:42 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-18 23:23 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 6:31 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-19 9:27 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 10:14 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 13:27 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2016-01-19 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-30 9:38 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-18 22:44 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-19 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 5:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-23 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 15:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-23 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 22:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-23 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 22:17 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-27 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-27 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 9:04 ` Florian Weimer
2016-01-27 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-27 22:54 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-18 23:15 ` Florian Weimer
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