From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: When should ralloc.c be used? Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:36:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k2dihpm9.fsf@gnu.org> <8760p2wzgj.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <838ttyhhzu.fsf@gnu.org> <871szqwu51.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <831szqhbc2.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1itt79z.fsf_-_@users.sourceforge.net> <7baa18d4-2b09-caa8-005e-29008a383ad1@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhwrgd5.fsf@gnu.org> <8539f38f-9a11-44c3-4de7-bb974c96206c@cs.ucla.edu> <8360ojpndr.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpgzo30m.fsf@gnu.org> <5a4bbe6d-08ce-e6c6-39d1-49c9cd6d1ffd@cs.ucla.edu> <83mvhvns9a.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1irnozo.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvhunb0d.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1477255039 19086 195.159.176.226 (23 Oct 2016 20:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 20:37:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 23 22:37:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1byPVz-0003aF-Qp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:37:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byPW2-0005Eq-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byPVM-0005CJ-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byPVL-0005XV-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:12246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1byPVK-0005X7-3E; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:36:26 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BHAgALW9BX/1DcbkFdGwEBAQMBAQGDLQEBAQEBHoRNhVCEZasRggOGFgQCAoFpORQBAgEBAQEBAQFeJ4RiAQEDAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiFUIvFUBAQgCJYp9ihwBBJlZkRUBh3eGC5BLHjaEbCCGCgEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0BHAgALW9BX/1DcbkFdGwEBAQMBAQGDLQEBAQEBHoRNhVCEZasRggOGFgQCAoFpORQBAgEBAQEBAQFeJ4RiAQEDAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiFUIvFUBAQgCJYp9ihwBBJlZkRUBh3eGC5BLHjaEbCCGCgEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.30,296,1470715200"; d="scan'208";a="276859622" Original-Received: from 65-110-220-80.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO ceviche.home) ([65.110.220.80]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 23 Oct 2016 16:36:25 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BD19D661C9; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:36:24 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83mvhunb0d.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2016 22:03:30 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208643 Archived-At: > Then what are our choices to solve this for Emacs 25.2? If GNU/Linux > starts using ralloc more and more, we will have crashes and data > corruption all over the place. It's inconceivable to release 25.2 in > this state. What's wrong with using gmalloc without ralloc and with mmap'd buffers? Stefan