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Re: [PATCH] Drop PER_THREAD conditionals.


On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:12:09AM +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:04:02AM +0100, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > Hi, when I looked at malloc code I wondered on what conditions 
> > we compile malloc with PER_THREAD. As in Makefile we have PER_THREAD 
> > enabled unconditionally. There may be reason to keep a PER_THREAD but
> > for simplicity of implementation I would just remove it.
> > 
> > Could somebody shed light on this.
> > 
> 
> As a Fedora maintainer I agree with removing [!PER_THREAD] bits since
> we don't change that define and it makes the code easier to read.  It
> made sense to keep it when the PER_THREAD bits were new, to test bugs
> against the older implementation for comparison, but I believe the
> PER_THREAD bits are mature enough now to get rid of the alternative.
> 
> Other distribution maintainers should also pitch in with an opinion on
> this since I don't know if anyone actually overrides that define in
> their package.
> 
> I don't think the ChangeLog is correct, but the patch itself looks OK.
> 
So how should changelog look like?


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