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?
Thank you
-- Russ herrold