Re: texinfo 4.6.91: fix broken xmalloc

[email protected] (Karl Berry) writes:

>     The xmalloc implementation is not 64 bit clean.  This fixes all its
>     anachronisms.
>
> Hmm.  There are so many complexities around size_t, I admit I am
> somewhat leery of this.  I have seen more meaningless compiler errors
> than I can count.

You are requiring C89 anyway, so what's the problem?

> I really doubt anyone will be creating >2gb Texinfo files in the
> meantime ...

It's not about >2gb, but about bogus malloc declaration.  It causes
install-info to fail with ENOMEM.  It's a blocker for 64 bit systems.

Andreas.

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