From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 16: 5:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B3F37B405 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2768943F5B for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h0F05V31034082; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:05:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:05:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Keith Jones Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: fpsetmask on sparc64 Message-ID: <20030115000530.GD42135@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030113200018.P11690-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3E2321CF.A5835FCD@mindspring.com> <3E249A88.7030109@blueyonder.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E249A88.7030109@blueyonder.co.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jan 14), Keith Jones said: > I'm new to this list, so apologies if this has been stated before, > but having just discovered that /usr/include/malloc.h has gone from > being merely deprecated (in -STABLE) to obsolete (in -RC), I'm with > Terry on this one. Yes it may be the right thing to do from a > standards point of view, but there's still a lot of legacy code out > there that uses it. (And a lot of new code too, I'll bet, since > malloc.h still works fine and dandy on Linux, and despite the fact > that the man page has said '#include ' for a few years now, > developers still fail to RTFM, it appears.) revision 1.2 date: 1994/11/17 11:04:49; author: ache; state: Exp; lines: +4 -15 branches: 1.2.6; By Bruce and Joerg suggestions and by looking into June version of NetBSD simple #include into malloc.h Put #warning that this file is obsoleted ( by Joerg suggestion) I think 8 years of warnings is more than enough :) Out of the ~7100 ports built by the package building cluster on -current, only the sdcc port is currently broken because of malloc.h. I have no data on how many ports patch the source to remove references to it, though. A much bigger problem when going to -current is the gcc 2.95 -> 3.2 upgrade; lots of c++ programs break because things have moved out of the global namespace into std:: -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message