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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#22086: 25.1.50; [PATCH] Integrate the musl hybrid malloc patch for elf systems |
Date: | Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:31:00 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
If we don't need the static heap, then let's ditch it.Is it needed for what you have in mind?
I hope not. Perhaps it is needed for Cygwin, for reasons I don't understand. If it is needed then obviously we should keep it, and use the hybrid allocator. If not, not.
Regardless, we shouldn't be trying to redefine 'malloc', nor should we be supplying our own allocator merely because that was a good idea back in 1989.Isn't this a minor problem since it concerns only those systems which will still need the malloc from src/gmalloc.c after dumping (non-ELF unix-like systems)?
Yes, it's a minor problem, in that none of these systems actually need gmalloc.c any more. If I understand things correctly, the main "problem" here (and it is a good problem to have) is that we need to carefully excise gmalloc.c out of Emacs, without breaking things.
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