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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/32760: Please MFC /usr/include/malloc.h to -STABLE.
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:59:27PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>=20
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:41:42 PST, Brooks Davis wrote:
>=20
> > If there's a way to make malloc.h optionaly fatel that would be a good
> > first step since we could strongly encourage porters to enable that and
> > perhaps enable it on bento for good measure.
>=20
> That sounds pretty easy, provided the affected ports honour CFLAGS. :-)
>=20
> Wouldn't something like this work?
>=20
> #if WANT_STDLIB_MALLOC
> #if __STDC__
> #error "<malloc.h> has been replaced by <stdlib.h>"
> #else
> #if __GNUC__
> #warning "this file includes <malloc.h> which is deprecated, use <stdlib.=
h> instead"
> #endif
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #endif
> #endif

That looks workable.  Once ports that honor CFLAGS are fixed, we could
either throw the switch with due fanfare or see what happens if bento
runs with a current malloc.h.  If nothing else it would expose some
ports that need their CFLAGS support fixed.

-- Brooks

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