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Re: x*alloc optimizations
- To: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: x*alloc optimizations
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 20 May 1998 12:29:19 -0700
- Cc: meyering at ascend dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199805201922.PAA10154@tiktok.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com> writes:
> I as supplier of compiler binaries then would have my releases not
> work, if I built the compiler on one revision, and had users on the
> other revision tried to use the compiler. Depending on a configure
> test for malloc/realloc behavior is utterly dangerous for providers
> of binary software.
Come on! This is no arbitrary test. This is the test for ISO C
compliance and no vendor will dare to make an compliant library
suddenly uncompliant.
-- Uli
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