From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Replacing malloc_get_state functionality. Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:31:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20140220232941.GA2929@domone.podge> <53070258.5090804@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393255920 31663 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2014 15:32:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?B?T25kxZllaiBCw61sa2E=?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 24 16:32:08 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxVm-0004hw-UY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 16:32:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxVm-0005Oz-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:32:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxVf-0005Op-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxVY-0001wr-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:31:59 -0500 Original-Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52215 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WHxVY-0001wm-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (charybdis-ext.suse.de [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DEA75012; Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:31:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: I wonder if I could ever get started in the credit world? In-Reply-To: <53070258.5090804@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:38:00 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 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:169840 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > Ond=C5=99ej B=C3=ADlka wrote: >> I as glibc contributor want to ask how feasible is replacing >> malloc_get_state functionality in unexec by something else. >> If so we could deprecate it for new binaries and use better malloc. > > It's feasible. You can run an Emacs today that doesn't use glibc's > malloc_get_state. Configure Emacs like this: > > ./configure emacs_cv_var_doug_lea_malloc=3Dno > > This tells 'configure' to assume that malloc_get_state does not work. Does it still work, though? Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint =3D 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D= 7 "And now for something completely different."