Re: [PATCH 3/6] mingw: do not use nedmalloc on Windows/ARM64

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Apr 22, 2025, 07:43 UTC
Message-ID: <aAdIlq8Np8LpahLS@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <6c2e17eca68b143eff7b33d195bc66a486471547.1745239150.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 12:39:07PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

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> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> It does not compile there, and seeing as nedmalloc has been pretty much
> unmaintained since at least November 2017, as per
> https://github.com/ned14/nedmalloc/issues/20#issuecomment-343432314,
> there is also no hope that any fixes will materialize there.

This kind of raises the question whether we want to keep on maintaining nedmalloc in our codebase at all. Is there any strong reason to have it?

Patrick

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