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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#22086: 25.1.50; [PATCH] Integrate the musl hybrid malloc patch for elf systems |
Date: | Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:33:22 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
The simpler approach is to remove gmalloc.c, and to use the system memory allocator, i.e., to behave as if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined on all platforms.
We can still support hybrid malloc for Cygwin, if SYSTEM_MALLOC wouldn't work on Cygwin for some reason; and we can support the similar hybrid on Darwin, if it's still needed. But in neither approach should we override the system malloc; any Emacs-specific allocation function we define should be called (say) emalloc instead of malloc, so that it does not conflict with the system malloc. That way, we don't have to worry about name-space collisions, either at compile-time or at link-time.
If I'm wrong about gmalloc.c and it is still needed on some platforms for some reason, we can continue to use it, but it should define emalloc etc., and not attempt to override the C standard library.
Long ago as I recall, we really needed to override the C standard library on some platforms, due to the funny way in which undumped storage was made read-only. That need is obsolete, though, which should let us simplify things now.
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