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Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Emacs-devel at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:48:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Removal of unexec support from glibc malloc
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:44:54 +0100
> Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
> Emacs Development <Emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> This is less of a problem if Emacs never frees a pointer after dump that
> it has allocated before dump. But I think this can happen (otherwise,
> all this would be quite easy to address).
Yes, it can and does happen, although not much.