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Re: A patch for malloc typo

To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
Subject: Re: A patch for malloc typo
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 24 Sep 2000 12:00:55 -0700
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20000919115233.A10665@valinux.com><20000919125509.A29516@valinux.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

> This patch should have no impact on generated binaries. It just makes
> the code less confusing.

How can this have no impact?  All programs which use the memalign hook
will break since the documented order in which size and alignment are
passed is changed.  Admittedly I don't expect many programs to use
this feature but cleanup is no reason to break something.

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