What's coming in glibc 2.10

Ulrich Drepper has posted a list of some of the changes which will appear in glibc 2.10. "The new malloc_info function therefore does not export a structure. Instead it exports the information in a self-describing data structure. Nowadays the preferred way to do this is via XML. The format can change over time (it's versioned), some fields will stay the same, other will change. No breakage. The reader just cannot assume that all the information will forever be available in the same form. There is no reader in glibc. This isn't necessary, it's easy enough to write outside glibc using one of the many XML libraries."

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