The direction of malloc?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Could we fix this in Emacs somehow?  Or do we have to support old Emacs
> binaries forever?

We need to support old binaries forever.  That's what binary compatibility 
is about.  (If Emacs stops using this scheme, we could make the relevant 
functions into compat symbols so *new* binaries can't use it, but old 
binaries need to stay supported.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com