What is up with glibc in rawhide?

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:26:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Even without that consideration, you are misinformed if you think that
> >> only i586 is broken.  The mysql failures I was seeing manifested on
> >> x86_64 but not the other three platforms.
> 
> > Are you certain we're talking about the same problem then?
> 
> Apparently there's more than one problem with glibc.  I was complaining
> about the "experimental malloc" code, which really now was not the time
> to enable.  But based on Ulrich's last remarks there may be independent
> issues on i586 arising from the platform selection itself.

If you have issues with the new malloc code, first verify you aren't
allocating anything from within async signal handlers.

	Jakub