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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:02:14 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: GNU configure and rpl_malloc (Re: adtool-1.2 broken on ia64)
Message-ID:  <20031128060214.GA79146@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031128045554.GB16503@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:55:54PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> It's a broken configure script. The problem is that malloc(0)
> returns NULL on ia64, which is incompatible with GNU malloc
> (apparently). This automaticly and bogusly results in the
> redefinition of malloc as rpl_malloc.  On i386, malloc(0) returns
> 0x800.=20

Ick..that's a lot of bogusness.  Is this a design choice?  It may be
worthwhile to revert it for now so that all those ports don't fail.

Kris

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