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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: use of malloc.h in KDE
From:       Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-11-22 11:26:40
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On Friday 22 November 2002 13:17, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 22 November 2002 11:39, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > Would it make sense to do the replace now, and those
> > implementations that still need <malloc.h> could include it
> > conditionally?
> >
> > Does anyone see any danger in this?
>
> I found 50 occurences of <malloc.h> with a quick scan. (I think I
> miss a few modules though)
>
> A lot of those are in yacc generated files where they occur like:
>
> #if 0 /* No need for malloc.h, which pollutes the namespace;
>          instead, just don't use alloca.  */
> #include <malloc.h>
> #endif
>
> So those aren't to cause any problems. Do you happen to have a list
> of the ones that are actually giving problems?

Preparing one now.

I'll post it later, once I have the full build done, probably in a few 
hours time, as it's just a single 1.4 Athlon doing it.

I'll cover all the release modules as part of my build, and additionally 
koffice and the two kdextragears.


Cheers,

Andy

-- 
Andy Fawcett      |   "In an open world without walls and fences,
andy@athame.co.uk |      we wouldn't need Windows and Gates."
tap@lspace.org    |                              -- anon

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