On 2025-06-16 05:24, Rich Felker wrote:
Do you have numbers for how many packages have actually pulled in the updated gnulib and shipped with it? With this change, do you have it replacing realloc on glibc, so that the new realloc actually gets used? I would expect yes;
I don't have numbers, but I've helped to release new GNU coreutils, diffutils, grep, and gzip with the new Gnulib. No realloc-related problems have been reported. I expect other GNU apps have also been released with the new Gnulib.
The new Gnulib replaces all app calls to realloc on platforms like glibc where realloc does not have the desired behavior. It does not replace realloc calls within libraries that are linked to.
Since these GNU apps are designed to be portable to musl etc. I would not have expected the new Gnulib behavior to change observable app behavior. The Gnulib change is mostly there to mask out any (unlikely) bugs that would occur if a GNU app incorrectly assumed the current Glibc realloc behavior (which is obviously bogus).
