From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 36655 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2016 17:33:41 -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 36639 invoked by uid 89); 10 Oct 2016 17:33:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:308, H*F:U*dj X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com From: DJ Delorie To: Siddhesh Poyarekar Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add note on MALLOC_MMAP_* environment variables References: <1476120388-26662-1-git-send-email-siddhesh@sourceware.org> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:33:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1476120388-26662-1-git-send-email-siddhesh@sourceware.org> (Siddhesh Poyarekar's message of "Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:56:27 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 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).