Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:24:34 +0100
> 
> On Mon, Jan 18 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > There's also what the MS-Windows port does (temacs allocates off a
> > static array), which AFAIK is entirely portable, and doesn't require
> > mmap.  See w32heap.c.
> 
> Isn't hybrid malloc the portable version of this?

No, not AFAIU.

> A patch series for this already exists (bug##22086), but Paul said
> that he wanted to get rid of src/gmalloc.c even for allocations
> before dumping, IIUC.

The MS-Windows port doesn't use gmalloc.c.