2.26 freeze in a little over a week

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/29/2017 04:35 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> PSA: The development freeze for 2.26 is due in a little over a week.  1
>>> July is a Saturday, so we have until next week to finish major changes.
>>>
>>> I have a memcpy implementation for the Qualcomm falkor chip that I hope
>>> to post by tomorrow.  Are there any major changes that need attention
>>> but are not getting it?
>>>
>>
>> Should we change i386 malloc alignment to 16 bytes:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21120
> 
> In my view, yes.

I agree.

> As I understand it, since we fixed bug 6527 such an 
> increase should be easy.  Is a malloc state version increase still needed 
> or not since we made malloc_get_state / malloc_set_state into compat 
> symbols?

No, we don't have to change the implementation.  We just need to
resurrect <malloc-machine.h> and use that to override the definition for
x86 (and later hppa, which has a similar issue with the pthread types).

I may be able to work on a patch, but probably not today.

Thanks,
Florian