glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2016-08-07 12:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I got a look at the emacs git, and found your patch
> > to backport to emacs-24. However as said on the wiki [1], it is also
> > necessary to compile src/gmalloc.c with -ffreestanding. I have done that
> > and it indeed works fine.
> 
> Is that still really needed with the emacs-25 branch? As Andreas notes, it
> has a different way of avoiding the calloc issue. What happens if you build
> the emacs-25 branch without using -ffreestanding?

The emacs-25 branch is probably fine, I was searching the commit to
backport to emacs-24 and was looking for a commit with -ffreestanding.
The emacs-25 branch is indeed fine.

Aurelien

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