Re: malloc: bison-2.1+, prototype mismatch vs. stdlib.h (C++ mode)

[Hans Aberg]

On 19 Oct 2007, at 21:54, David Fang wrote:

> 	I've just encountered a problem where the compiler rejects bison's  
> prototype for "void* malloc(YYSIZE_T);" because it doesn't match  
> with <stdlib.h>, which looks like "void* malloc(size_t)  
> __THROW ... ;" (ubuntu7).  The problem only manifests when  
> compiling the resulting source file as in C++ (otherwise, the  
> __THROW macro is empty).  It looks like the bison skeleton is using  
> "defined __cplusplus" to conditionally insert this prototype,  
> rather than including <cstdlib>, a standard C++ wrapper header,  
> which should resolve the inconsistency, and be safely portable.
> 	This issue is the same on at least 2.1 and 2.3.  Does anyone else  
> see this issue on ubuntu7 or other UNIX system?  (Another ubuntu7  
> distro didn't have this issue, so I need to get more feedback from  
> my bug reporter.)

Well, is it the C or C++ header? In C++, standard names start with  
"std::".

  Hans Aberg