Deprecate mcheck?

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/10/2014 03:59 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> GDB mainline uses mcheck by default.  If proposing deprecation then you
> should work with the GDB developers on ensuring there is an equally
> functional replacement available for them to use to enable checking by
> default in development builds of GDB.

Ugh.

GDB uses autoconf detection logic, and most builds don't enable it 
because it's not thread-safe and thus conflicts with the Python module.

Nevertheless, I will ask on the GCC mailing list if they still consider 
mcheck useful.

(The other user I see in Fedora is gq, but that is properly autoconf'ed 
as well.)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team