On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:29 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I would like to request a change of the Packaging Guidelines, advising > packagers not to interpose malloc. > > The reasons are: > > * We have resources to support glibc malloc, but not for other mallocs. > * Other mallocs do not follow ABI and provide insufficient alignment. > * Choosing a malloc is workload-dependent and forcing a non-default > malloc takes options away from system administrators. > > This does not concern other allocators, such as Boehm GC or APR, only > the standard malloc interfaces. > > Comments? > How does one detect that some other allocator is used? Do we have some automated tools? Do you have a draft? P.S. Packaged Rust uses glibc's allocator, upstream uses malloc. > Thanks, > Florian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/43MAKHBKT5HHO6QEXQASWATMMK3TSH3K/ > -- -Igor Gnatenko
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