On 07/26/2018 06:45 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I would like to request a change of the Packaging Guidelines, advising
> packagers not to interpose malloc.
The use here of 'interpose' is unclear to me -- are you saying
'substitute a different' ?
> 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.
Could you please mention a couple of bugs where this is shown?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237260
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303323
http://www.erahm.org/2016/03/24/minimum-alignment-of-allocation-across-pl...
Thanks,
Florian