Re: SYS_sbrk removal proposal

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Den 2017-12-19 kl. 14:15, skrev Valery Ushakov:
> Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost> wrote:
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> > Den 2017-12-19 kl. 13:12, skrev Sevan Janiyan:
> > > Just as a heads up, I believe the FreeBSD folks went through this with
> > > their ARMv8 support and looking up the notes on their wiki, indeed,
> > > emacs was the fallout.
> > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213862
> > Last lines are the most interesting:
> >
> > Ed Maste freebsd_committer 2017-11-20 21:11:02 UTC
> >
> > The GNU bug report claims that it is fixed in 26.1
> >
> > So, unless someone want to compile an old emacs, it do not seem like
> > an issue anymore :-)
> Actually, since emacs is a religion, quite a number of people seem to
> hold onto specific old versions of emacs.
IIRC it was not a problem to run Emacs, it was a problem to compile it.
So if the user want to compile an old Emacs,  COMPAT_80 or so must be 
added to the kernel.

-- Ragge