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Re: 2.25 freeze - a little more than the holiday fortnight to go

On 12/22/2016 03:25 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:


With Emacs, we delayed changing malloc until we were sure we found an
approach which kept existing Emacs binaries working.  Similarly, we can
make the condvar change in Fedora as long as it does not break in-place
upgrades.


The difference is that the glibc change affecting Emacs was an
enhancement, not a bug fix.  The current condvar is not conforming to
POSIX.  Delaying bug fixes for everyone is bad.
The malloc change enabled us to fix powerpc and MIPS ABI. Previously, the alignment returned by malloc was not correct and less than what was required by the ABI: 

  <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6527>

Florian
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