[PATCH] malloc: Remove malloc_get_state, malloc_set_state

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 16:58:00 GMT 2016


On 06/10/2016 07:42 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps the test program should be retained and should check that the
> hidden __malloc_get_state function indeed returns NULL?  Dunno how you'd
> test __malloc_set_state....

I'm working on a test which emulates what Emacs is doing.  It's not very 
hard (just create something resembling a heap dump in the .data 
section), it's just a little bit of work to get the self-checking right, 
without being able to use malloc to do any book-keeping.

Unfortunately, the existing tst-mallocstate test doesn't really say if 
the heap dump/undump logic is compatible with Emacs.

Florian



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