glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Thu Jul 14 08:38:00 GMT 2016


Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 10:23 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > I don't know if there is anything on the glibc side that we can reasonably
>> > do about this matter.  I don't want to back out the removal of
>> > __malloc_initialize_hook from <malloc.h> (which triggers the switch to the
>> > internal malloc).
>> 
>> Apparently it's not ready for the world yet.
>
> It rather seems to be the case that a part of the world (ie, emacs)
> still hasn't managed to not use internals of glibc, or fixed its own
> work-arounds.

Yes, but that needs to be resolved before the release.

Andreas.

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