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Re: The direction of malloc?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:03:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: The direction of malloc?
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Could we fix this in Emacs somehow? Or do we have to support old Emacs
> binaries forever?
We need to support old binaries forever. That's what binary compatibility
is about. (If Emacs stops using this scheme, we could make the relevant
functions into compat symbols so *new* binaries can't use it, but old
binaries need to stay supported.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com