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Re: 2.25 freeze - a little more than the holiday fortnight to go

On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 15:44 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 12/22/2016 03:25 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> 
> >> With Emacs, we delayed changing malloc until we were sure we found an
> >> approach which kept existing Emacs binaries working.  Similarly, we can
> >> make the condvar change in Fedora as long as it does not break in-place
> >> upgrades.
> >
> > The difference is that the glibc change affecting Emacs was an
> > enhancement, not a bug fix.  The current condvar is not conforming to
> > POSIX.  Delaying bug fixes for everyone is bad.
> 
> The malloc change enabled us to fix powerpc and MIPS ABI.  Previously, 
> the alignment returned by malloc was not correct and less than what was 
> required by the ABI:

Well, in that case, I'd certainly have valued the bug fix higher than
keeping an inherently broken emacs hack working.
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