Hello! On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:28:25PM +0300, Genadijus Paleckis wrote: >[...]
>>>Is that means that 3.8 might be unstable ? Maybe all who wants/needs >>>stable systems need to run 3.7 ? >well, from base system side I gues it will be minimal problems, but what >about ports ? because almost everyone using it. The very most things just work for me. Base, X11, applications like firefox or gaim, own C/C++ code. A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't avoid malloc altogether. That is ports/lang/clisp, that seems to be also gprolog, according to Marc Espie. I'd guess it'll also bite sbcl/cmucl (but there's no current port [neither in the sense of /usr/ports, nor in the sense of a 3rd party package] of cmucl for OpenBSD anyway). Some other things are not bitten in the same way, even though they do have different memory management. Including ghc, probably also SML/NJ (own build as of Jul 12, using libc 38.1, wasn't mmap-based malloc + mmap randomization in there already?). I *am* a bit sad about the fact that there're no running Lisp implementations for OpenBSD at all in the moment, but I don't have the energy to contribute own effort to change this, and it's not *that* high priority for me. I think Theo's (and other core developers') decision to release 3.8 with those malloc/mmap changes in is good overall. Kind regards, Hannah.
