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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: use of malloc.h in KDE
From:       David Leimbach <leimbacd () bellsouth ! net>
Date:       2002-11-22 12:37:08
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> After a little research, it _seems_ that most (all?) major
> implementations of unix have a malloc definition in <stdlib.h>, so we
> could just do a straightforward replace.
>

This is the correct C standard place to have malloc's prototype... some 
people
omit malloc's prototype altogether which is *very bad* for other 
reasons. [64 bit ones
in fact]

> The only problem with this is that I cannot be sure to catch all
> implementations that way, and at this late stage it's a risk. I don't
> want to be the cause of a build failing elsewhere, but I would like to
> fix this now.
>
The ones that aren't caught should be rightfully clobbered and forced 
to conform to the
C standard... easy as that.  If they cannot conform in a reasonable 
amount of time they can
be handled with #ifdef magic... FreeBSD does the right thing and should 
not be the corner case.

> 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?
>

Only the danger that 3.1 RC3 is out and that it may be too late before 
a big release to handle this
I do however see this as a bug and not a feature FreeBSD is missing.


> A.
>
> -- 
> 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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