Disable floating point code/linking when possible.
Unless heap profiling is enabled, disable floating point code and don't link with libm. This, in combination with e.g. EXTRA_CFLAGS=-mno-sse on x64 systems, makes it possible to completely disable floating point register use. Some versions of glibc neglect to save/restore caller-saved floating point registers during dynamic lazy symbol loading, and the symbol loading code uses whatever malloc the application happens to have linked/loaded with, the result being potential floating point register corruption.
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