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Re: glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers
Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 10:32 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 10:23 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> >> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > I don't know if there is anything on the glibc side that we can reasonably
>> >> > do about this matter. I don't want to back out the removal of
>> >> > __malloc_initialize_hook from <malloc.h> (which triggers the switch to the
>> >> > internal malloc).
>> >>
>> >> Apparently it's not ready for the world yet.
>> >
>> > It rather seems to be the case that a part of the world (ie, emacs)
>> > still hasn't managed to not use internals of glibc, or fixed its own
>> > work-arounds.
>>
>> Yes, but that needs to be resolved before the release.
>
> IIRC, Florian started this several months ago, so it seems emacs should
> have had enough time to catch up by now. Also, bugs in their own malloc
> replacement hardly seem like something we'd be responsible for.
We are responsible for removing a supported interface.
Andreas.
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