Re: how to test HAVE_MALLOC

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, j.wuttke wrote:

> A user of my software package reported that compilation on
> a virtual Linux machine running on his Mac failed because
> '::malloc' was not declared.
>
> We then found that AC_FUNC_MALLOC actually produced a 'no'
> in the ./configure output.
>
> This is not what I expected, and definitely not what I need.
> If there is no malloc on a box, I do not want my users do

What system does not have malloc()?   It seems very odd to want to 
test for it.

Your use of the term "::malloc" makes it sound like this test is 
somehow related to C++ rather than C.

Bob
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