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decker AT dacafe DOT com wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> If the issues are serious, then of course it can't be released as
> "final". But if it will remain at beta for some time yet(years),
> then I don't see the real-world sense of stopping the addition of
> new features (like elf or nmalloc). A bit like saying "no we can't
> fix what we have right now, but we can't take new features either".

elf would be a major change, but nmalloc is totally isolated.  It
can be used today by simply linking the nmalloc object package
ahead of the library.  This applies to 2.03, and I doubt that 2.04
will be any different.  Similarly the malloc_debug package is
utilized by linking malldbg after the nmalloc package.  I even did
the complete info package for it.

As far as I can tell the only care needed is to include the
appropriate (supplied) headers, because stdlib.h has not been
suitably revised to match.

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