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Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:59:09 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 00:39:13 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Could you please add a commentary explaining the need for this
> > additional layer of lmalloc/lrealloc?
>
> Sure. I gave it a shot in emacs-25 commit
> b1079c0f86c218f016a6c2e84ea402f4e175fc53 as part of a patch to improve
> portability to hosts where realloc and malloc can return pointers that are
> not
> multiples of 8. (I don't have access to any such hosts, which I think are
> rare
> nowadays though some may still exist.)
Thanks. Out of curiosity: which hosts can behave like that?
Also, why are we sure that the loops will end at some point on those
hosts? Shouldn't we perhaps set a limit to the loop iterations, to be
sure we don't infloop there?
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, (continued)
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/04
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Colin Baxter, 2016/02/05
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/06
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/06
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/02/07
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/07
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/07
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/08
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/08
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Colin Baxter, 2016/02/10
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/08
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/08
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Herbert J. Skuhra, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/09
- Re: USE_LSB_TAG not supported on this platform, Paul Eggert, 2016/02/06