Am Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:15:54 +0200 schrieb "Kim B. Heino" <[email protected]>:
> > As long as you are doing this, could you also look into removing the > > stack direction growth checks? As far as I can see, they are only > > used by dlmalloc.c, > > Stack direction check and STACK_DIRECTION define is used by alloca.c > and continuations.c. > > alloca.c is not needed with modern glibc or uClibc. Should I create a > patch to delete it? Which version is modern? Anything that would break Debian 5.0 is not to be commited. (RedHat/CentOS are already (missing GTK+ 2.12) but they're even `older' than Debian Lenny) > continuations and multi-threading is enabled by default, so stack > growth direction check can't be deleted. > > There's also memcmp.c. I think we could delete that one too. I guess, too, as memcmp is also part of libc. Chris
