Re: texinfo 4.6.91: fix broken xmalloc

[email protected] (Karl Berry) writes:

>     You are requiring C89 anyway, so what's the problem?
>
> Nothing specific, I've just wasted so much time with stupid type clashes
> involving size_t, I have always avoided it.  Standards != reality.
>
>     It's not about >2gb, but about bogus malloc declaration.
>     
> What's wrong with void *malloc()?

It's not a prototype.

>     It causes install-info to fail with ENOMEM.  It's a blocker for 64
>     bit systems.
>
> Why should a lack of size_t in a declaration cause ENOMEM, and in
> install-info of all places?  That makes no sense to me at all!  It's all
> the same bits.

But sizeof(unsigned) != sizeof(size_t).

> What "64-bit system" is this?  I compiled on Linux and Solaris systems
> with 64-bit support and didn't see this.  How do I reproduce?

It's undefined behaviour.  You can get anything.

Andreas.

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