2.25 freeze - a little more than the holiday fortnight to go

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/22/2016 03:25 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:

>> With Emacs, we delayed changing malloc until we were sure we found an
>> approach which kept existing Emacs binaries working.  Similarly, we can
>> make the condvar change in Fedora as long as it does not break in-place
>> upgrades.
>
> The difference is that the glibc change affecting Emacs was an
> enhancement, not a bug fix.  The current condvar is not conforming to
> POSIX.  Delaying bug fixes for everyone is bad.

The malloc change enabled us to fix powerpc and MIPS ABI.  Previously, 
the alignment returned by malloc was not correct and less than what was 
required by the ABI:

   <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6527>

Florian