GNU bug report logs - #24892
{s,}brk removed from FreeBSD 11.x and later, arm64 architecture

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ashish.is <at> lostca.se (Ashish SHUKLA)

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:09:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 28308

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 24892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 24892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24892: {s, }brk removed from FreeBSD 11.x and later, arm64
 architecture
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 05:34:25 +0200

> Cc: 24892 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 13:41:40 -0800
> 
> Following up on this bug report, the memory-limit function should be 
> marked obsolescent and eventually removed, as its value has not been 
> useful (or, as far as I can tell, used) for many years. Until it's 
> removed it can just return 0. Proposed patch attached.

I agree that the current implementation is not useful on many
platforms, but would it make sense to provide a different
implementation, which will be more useful?  For example, something
based on getrusage or perhaps the info in /proc?

Thanks.
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