RFR: 8263185: Mallinfo deprecated in glibc 2.33 [v4]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:22:42 GMT, Christoph Göttschkes <cgo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I don't know how glibc handles this, but the release notes of 2.33 states:
> 
> > The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been removed.
> 
> So it looks like they are removing deprecated functions. I guess this doesn't mean that the symbol is no longer in the runtime library (because of symbol versioning, it should remain there), but the function declaration in the header has been removed.
> 
> I can confirm, that on a recent Arch Linux (which already has glibc 2.33) this header is no longer to be found in /usr/include. In the libc.so file, however, the symbol is still there:
> 
> ```
> $ readelf --dyn-sym -W /usr/lib/libc.so.6 |grep vtimes
>    673: 00000000000f5c40    56 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   16 vtimes at GLIBC_2.2.5
> ```

You are right :( Okay, then resolving mallinfo manually may be the best option.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2964