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diff --git a/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn b/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn index 43b8314f..1f766428 100644 --- a/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/glibc_madvise_vs_static_linking.mdwn @@ -26,10 +26,22 @@ case of MADV_DONTNEED), but may influence its performance. The kernel is free to ignore the advice.* (`man madvise`), so we may simply want to turn it into a no-op in glibc, avoiding the link-time warning. -2011-07: This is what Samuel has [done for Debian -glibc](http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/hurd-i386/local-madvise_warn.diff). - GCC c5db973fdab3db3e13db575e5650c0bcfd3630f4 (2011-10-17) makes use of this. As we now export the symbol (and `MADV_DONTNEED`, too), GCC will no longer `munmap` pages, but will keep them mapped for later re-use. This may increase memory usage. + +2011-07: This is what Samuel has [done for Debian +glibc](http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/hurd-i386/local-madvise_warn.diff). + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-16 + + <tschwinge> youpi: With Roland's fix the situation will be that just using + gcc -static doesn't emit the stub warning, but still will do so in case + that the source code itself links in madvise. Is this acceptable for + you/Debian/...? + <youpi> packages with -Werror will still bug out + <youpi> not that I consider -Werror to be a good idea, though :) + <tschwinge> youpi: Indeed. Compiler warnings can be caused by all kinds of + things. -Werror is good for development, but not for releases. |