GNU configure and rpl_malloc (Re: adtool-1.2 broken on ia64)

[Kris Kennaway]

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. 

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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