control: severity -1 serious On 2016-08-08 11:45, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: emacs24 > Version: 24.5+1-6+b2 > Severity: important > Tags: patch upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > glibc 2.24 has removed the possibility to add malloc hooks, as they have > been deprecated for more that 5 years. When emacs is built against this > glibc will switch to its internal malloc implementation. Unfortunately > it hasn't been widely tested and is currently broken in the following > ways: > - When src/gmalloc.c is compiled with gcc-5 or gcc-6, it leads to > infinite recursion. > - On 64-bit systems with aggressive ASLR (such as ppc64), the emacs > internal malloc needs a lot of memory (typically 12 GiB). > > Both issues have already been fixed upstream. You will find attached > the corresponding patches backported for 2.24. Note that while the > malloc hooks support have been removed from the public interfaces, they > are still available in the library. Therefore existing binaries will > keep working. > > Also note that the emacs-25 already contains both fixes. > > Could you please do an upload with the two attached patches? glibc 2.24 > is already available in experimental and will plan to upload it to sid > in the next days/weeks.
glibc 2.24 is now in unstable, so I am upgrading the severity of this bug to serious. If you don't have time to fix this bug, I can do a non-maintainer upload with the patch which is in the bug log. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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