Re: Aligned blocks management: obsolete?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:07:15 +0400
> From: Dmitry Antipov <address@hidden>
> 
> > Can you please tell what you mean by that?  Are you alluding to
> > lisp_align_malloc and its subroutines, or to something else?
> 
> Yes. I'm just curious about comment above lisp_align_malloc -
> the comment references glibc-2.3.2, which was released ~8 years ago :-).
> 
> > I hope Emacs is not on its way to become a glibc-only project.  Quite
> > a few supported platforms don't use glibc: Cygwin, *BSD (AFAIK),
> > Windows.
> 
> That's why I'm asking for. I suppose that any non-ancient glibc malloc
> doesn't require such a glitch in lisp_align_malloc any more - but
> I have no ideas about malloc implementation on other supported systems.

Can you formulate the misfeatures which lisp_align_malloc protects
against?  Then perhaps it would be possible to see whether gmalloc and
ralloc solve them.

TIA