On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:29 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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