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Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal



Den 2017-12-19 kl. 14:45, skrev Christos Zoulas:
In article <c7e15629-8b30-0a40-ae62-fc893a29e49a%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>,
Anders Magnusson  <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:

IIRC it was not a problem to run Emacs, it was a problem to compile it.
So if the user want to compile an old Emacs,  COMPAT_80 or so must be
added to the kernel.
And let's not forget all the old binaries that might be using it.

That was not a problem since they used the sbrk(3) version instead.
...which assumes that they are dynamically linked, of course :-)

-- Ragge


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