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Re: [PATCH] Drop PER_THREAD conditionals.
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
- To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:12:09 +0530
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop PER_THREAD conditionals.
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- References: <20131206000402 dot GA17751 at domone dot podge>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 01:04:02AM +0100, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> Hi, when I looked at malloc code I wondered on what conditions
> we compile malloc with PER_THREAD. As in Makefile we have PER_THREAD
> enabled unconditionally. There may be reason to keep a PER_THREAD but
> for simplicity of implementation I would just remove it.
>
> Could somebody shed light on this.
>
As a Fedora maintainer I agree with removing [!PER_THREAD] bits since
we don't change that define and it makes the code easier to read. It
made sense to keep it when the PER_THREAD bits were new, to test bugs
against the older implementation for comparison, but I believe the
PER_THREAD bits are mature enough now to get rid of the alternative.
Other distribution maintainers should also pitch in with an opinion on
this since I don't know if anyone actually overrides that define in
their package.
I don't think the ChangeLog is correct, but the patch itself looks OK.
Siddhesh