From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61075 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2016 17:42:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 60769 invoked by uid 89); 10 Oct 2016 17:42:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: homiemail-a91.g.dreamhost.com Reply-To: siddhesh@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables References: <1476120388-26662-1-git-send-email-siddhesh@sourceware.org> To: DJ Delorie Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Message-ID: <906855da-d4c9-b9ab-db68-1af6efe84fa9@sourceware.org> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:42:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 On Monday 10 October 2016 11:03 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > These variables all end with "_", most likely the original intention is > that they are not official and may be removed or changed at any time. > > By making them official, we lock in that ABI. Is that your intention? > > (likewise your other patch). I don't see the point in not doing so because they're too widely in use for us to take them back anyway. Siddhesh