Re: guile 1.6.8 make check failure on AIX 6.1

[Rainer Tammer]

Hello,

Neil Jerram wrote:
> Rainer Tammer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > ERROR: srfi-4.test: u8 vector: u8vector? success - arguments:
> > ((memory-allocation-error "make-u8vector" "Memory allocation error" #f
> > #f))
> >     
> [...]
>
> Those errors would occur if realloc(NULL, 0) returns NULL on AIX.
> (Whereas on GNU/Linux, it returns non-NULL.)  Can you try
> realloc(NULL, 0) and confirm/deny that it gives NULL for you?
>
>   
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
   char *t;

   t = (char*)realloc(NULL, 0);
   if (t == NULL)
   {
       printf("is NULL\n");
   }
   else
   {
       printf("is not NULL\n");
   }
   return(0);
}


Under Linux: is not NULL
Under AIX: is NULL

This is an "old" AIX difference....

> Thanks,
>         Neil
>
>
>   
Bye
 Rainer