radareorg/radare2

Refactor Jemalloc heap parsing code for dynamic configuration and independce from system types.

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#11,886 opened on Oct 21, 2018

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Hi,

Debian build farm reports a build failure for RISC-V due to jemalloc not support the architecture [0]. I suggest to update radare2's jemalloc implementation, so that it includes RISC-V support [1].

-- Sebastian

[0] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=radare2&arch=riscv64&ver=3.0.1%2Bdfsg-1&stamp=1540087129&raw=0 [1] https://github.com/aerospike/jemalloc/commit/919e4a0ea92fbbf9b97efdf9f31a3c800f77cd8f

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Investigate jemalloc build configuration and platform detection. Add RISC V support by following the existing architecture patterns and the referenced commit.
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