Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:20:26 -0500
From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Ashish SHUKLA <ashish.is@lostca.se>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, 24892@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24892: {s, }brk removed from FreeBSD 11.x and later, arm64 architecture
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On 18 November 2016 at 11:21, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > In the meantime we respectfully request that sbrk functionality be kept in > FreeBSD 11.x arm64 for a while. It is fine to mark it as deprecated or > obsolete, or even rename it, but please do not remove the functionality > entirely. Hi Paul, I want to clarify one point: arm64 support was first available in a release in FreeBSD 11.0, without sbrk, and sbrk never existed on the stable/11 branch. It's important for us that emacs works on FreeBSD (including FreeBSD/arm64) and there are folks willing to help make that happen. I had a quick look at emacs' source, and it seems there's an implementation that allocates memory out of a large array in .bss used for some platforms - could we make use of that here?
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