[PATCH] Drop PER_THREAD conditionals.

[Will Newton]

On 6 December 2013 03:42, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:04:02AM +0100, Ondřej Bílka 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.

The patch looks good to me too.

-- 
Will Newton
Toolchain Working Group, Linaro