re: malloc.h (was: Re: status update - gcc 4.5 - some what working)

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, matthew green wrote:
> > a bug in the gcc 4.5 build was found because netbsd has malloc.h 
> > and macosx does not.
> 
> A #error in NetBSD's malloc.h would have reported this problem. 
> My suggestion to do that was a reaction to a gcc-4.5 build failure 
> on Mac OS X.

i don't think so.

if it errored out on netbsd, i'd expect autoconf to not emit
HAVE_MALLOC_H, and thus the problem would have remained hidden.


.mrg.