On 2024-10-19 01:25, Bruno Haible wrote:
If not, can you please summarize the conclusions?
I think Alejandro has done that now.
it would be premature to change lib/realloc.c, _before_ glibc has made any change.
Yes, we're working on the glibc side. (It's a little question of scheduling. :-)
That's not what Gnulib is made for: causing additional work for the developer.
The goal is to make the change as painless as possible. I agree that there may be some additional work, for developers who want to avoid all memory leaks no matter how small, and whose packages unwisely are relying on the current glibc semantics. However, packages like this are rare and the harm (if the work isn't done) small.