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[Bug malloc/6527] [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 13:23:37 +0000
- Subject: [Bug malloc/6527] [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
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- References: <bug-6527-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6527
--- Comment #12 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to joseph@codesourcery.com from comment #8)
> It was asserted that malloc_set_state is only called very early in emacs
> startup and no significant amount of the previously allocated memory gets
> freed anyway.
If that were the case, valgrind would work with a dumped Emacs. â
Unfortunately, Emacs calls at least realloc on pre-dump pointers, so we need to
support that in some way. I don't want to test all old Emacs binaries, so I
intend to make the pre-dump pointers fully compatible with post-dump malloc.
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