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-platforms/

Thanks,
Florian
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