Re: When should ralloc.c be used? (WAS: bug#24358)

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I think native malloc on GNU/Linux is much better these days; we were
  > using it all the recent years, until glibc developers removed the
  > hooks we needed for unexec support (which is why those GNU/Linux
  > systems where this change is already installed switched to gmalloc and
  > ralloc instead).

Should we talk with them about putting in those hooks or other
suitable hooks?  Then we could go back to the libc malloc.

  > It imposes hard-to-fulfill requirements on functions that get C
  > pointers to buffer text or to Lisp string data: those functions must
  > never call malloc, directly or indirectly.

I think the way to fix those is by systematically looking at the
source for them, rather than by debugging.

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