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Re: glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers
- From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 23:48:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.24 -- Release blockers
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On 2016-08-07 12:35, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I got a look at the emacs git, and found your patch
> > to backport to emacs-24. However as said on the wiki [1], it is also
> > necessary to compile src/gmalloc.c with -ffreestanding. I have done that
> > and it indeed works fine.
>
> Is that still really needed with the emacs-25 branch? As Andreas notes, it
> has a different way of avoiding the calloc issue. What happens if you build
> the emacs-25 branch without using -ffreestanding?
The emacs-25 branch is probably fine, I was searching the commit to
backport to emacs-24 and was looking for a commit with -ffreestanding.
The emacs-25 branch is indeed fine.
Aurelien
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