Bug 1315108

Summary: glibc: remove extend_alloca
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: glibcAssignee: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: arjun.is, codonell, dj, fweimer, jakub, law, mfabian, pfrankli, siddhesh
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.23.90-4.fc25 Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2016-03-07 10:57:42 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2016-03-06 20:29:21 UTC
extend_alloca is a constant source of headaches and does not really work:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18023

I'd like to remove it from the rawhide version of glibc.