>>>>> Florian Weimer writes: > This is a heads-up that glibc malloc will likely remove support code for the > Emacs unexec mechanism during the coming year. Hi Florian, I think you might understand our dismay at hearing this without any prior notice, since Emacs does depend on the unexec mechanism, and we are currently preparing a major upcoming release (25.1) that makes use of it. Could we start a discussion on whether it's possible to still allow this support in some form? You are asking us to make a rather significant change to low-level code that has been functioning for a very long time. I'm not even sure yet what lack of this support entails for existing and future Emacsen. As we are both projects under the GNU banner, I hope we can find a middle ground to further the GNU project, yet without such sudden and unexpected costs. At the very least, allowing a longer timeline before removing unexec functionality will permit us to research, prepare, and possibly suggest counter-proposals to achieve the same overall objective. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2