Re: When should ralloc.c be used?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 08:45:04 -0400
> 
> > It looks like either people don't realize what a land mine we just
> > stepped on, or they simply don't care enough.
> [...]
> > Does it make sense to anyone to release Emacs 25.2 that doesn't work
> > reliably on recent GNU/Linux systems?  Because that's what is going to
> > happen if we don't invest all the resources we have into solving this.
> 
> I must be missing something: you seem to know about past severe problems
> we've had because of fragmentation, whereas I can't remember any
> such occurrence.

I don't understand how you get to talking about fragmentation.  I
never mentioned anything like that.  The problems I was talking about
are all related to using ralloc.c on GNU/Linux systems with a recent
enough glibc.