From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should Glibc API be changed?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:56:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aLiwr-0006VT-UH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569E66E3.6060307@redhat.com> (message from Florian Weimer on Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:40:03 +0100)
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> I'm disappointed you chose a private mailing list for the discussion.
Of course I did. This a sensitive issue; it is best to discuss it
without an audience.
> I'm puzzled why you think this is a major change. It only affects Emacs
A change that breaks other programs, and does not offer a trivial way
to fix them, is a major change. Affecting Emacs is already plenty --
and other programs might be affected to.
> The research in the parent thread suggests that I was mistaken and Emacs
> should compile just fine after removal of the API.
I suspect a misunderstanding. You may be using the term "API" in a
narrow sense. I mean, everything about how programs can use Glibc.
This is not just about whether Emacs (and maybe other programs)
_compile_ without errors. It's about whether they still work as
intended.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 2:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 12:33 Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc Florian Weimer
2016-01-18 19:20 ` 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 [this message]
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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