Subject: Re: bug#22086: 25.1.50; [PATCH] Integrate the musl hybrid malloc patch for elf systems

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:14:47 +0100

On Sun, Dec 20 2015, Paul Eggert wrote:

> The simpler approach is to remove gmalloc.c, and to use the system
> memory allocator, i.e., to behave as if SYSTEM_MALLOC is defined on
> all platforms.

The system malloc can't manage the "static heap" array implemented in
sheap.c (because usually there's no malloc_hook), so, presumably this
would be ditched as well.  So... I wonder what you are proposing here.