I wrote:
> * lib/stdlib.in.h (free): New declaration.
Oops, I forgot to check this declaration in the test suite.
2020-12-18 Bruno Haible
free-posix: Add C++ declaration test.
* tests/test-stdlib-c++.cc (free): New declaration.
diff --git a/tests/test-stdlib-c++.cc
Thanks for fixing that.
It is amusing that after 45 years we are still fussing with the semantics of
'free'. You'd think it'd be simple, but no
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> coreutils is now failing to build with:
>
>lib/free.c:28:1: error: no previous declaration
> for 'rpl_free' [-Werror=missing-declarations]
> 28 | rpl_free (void *p)
>| ^~~~
>
> In early 2008 coreutils removed use of the then deprecated "free"
On 17/12/2020 09:54, Paul Eggert wrote:
* lib/free.c (rpl_free): Preserve errno. Check for null only if
CANNOT_FREE_NULL is defined, as an optimization for POSIX 2008
platforms that do not preserve errno.
* m4/free.m4 (gl_FUNC_FREE): Check whether free preserves errno.
Also, define
* lib/free.c (rpl_free): Preserve errno. Check for null only if
CANNOT_FREE_NULL is defined, as an optimization for POSIX 2008
platforms that do not preserve errno.
* m4/free.m4 (gl_FUNC_FREE): Check whether free preserves errno.
Also, define CANNOT_FREE_NULL if free cannot free NULL.
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