glibc 2.24 --- Starting soft/slush freeze discussion

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/30/2016 10:14 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> I will spend some time tomorrow compiling the release blockers for 2.24, so
> please use this thread as placeholder to discuss them.  I would like to
> have them defined by the end of tomorrow.

I would like to get in the malloc_set_state/malloc_get_state changes:

   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg00905.html>

The test depends on some new ELF symbol hacks which enable linking 
against compatibility symbols from test.

I assume we also need the memalign changes for the dynamic linker to 
increase Emacs compatibility (with their interposed malloc).  But that's 
a bug fix which could be backported later.

I would also like to finish review of the stack-protector changes and 
make them part of the release (disabled by default).  They may end up 
having a dependency on Stefan Liebler's IFUNC changes.

Florian