PATCH: Malloc fails if MALLOC_ALIGNMENT > 2 * SIZE_SZ

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 22:01:00 GMT 2011


On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> Well, as usual, H.J. hasn't said why he wants the change - so I'm not
>> sure what he thinks he's doing with the revised patch.  Is it for an
>> out-of-tree ABI?  Maybe x32?
>
> He certainly should have said more in this re-posting.  But to be fair,
> he did post it as an x32 change earlier (a month ago, in
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-07/msg00129.html).
> I specifically asked him to separate his follow-on change from your old
> change and re-post them for individual consideration.  (Of course,
> he never did describe why his additional change was necessary.)

Please see:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495

for why my follow-on patch is needed.


-- 
H.J.



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