Time to svn rm include/malloc.h

[Steve Wills]

Yeah, a lot of ports have things like:

sed -e 's/malloc.h/stdlib.h/' *.[ch]

because they have autotools that check for malloc.h existence and 
include it if it exists, so you end up with things like:

...
#include <stdlib.h>
...
#if HAVE_MALLOC_H
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
...

which ends up harmless, but sub-optimal.

Steve


On 3/31/20 3:50 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> We started warning in 1994 that malloc.h was an obsolete relic of a bygon
> era. It was almost removed from FreeBSD 2.0. It's time to remove it because
> it causes more harm than good to ports these days. 25 years of advance
> warning should be enough, I'd say.
> 
> To that end, I plan on removing it from -current on April 15th.
> 
> Is there any reason I shouldn't do this?
> 
> Warner
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