Re: alloca bug

[Kevin Ryde]

Jon Wilson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> scmconfig.h seems to only be created while make all is running (try
> make scmconfig after ../configure).

Yes, it's generated.

> However, on my system, and Gopi's
> FreeBSD system as well, scmconfig.h includes <stdlib.h>.  So,
> indirectly, eval.c includes <stdlib.h>, and does so prior to the
> autoconf alloca blob.  Since <stdlib.h> defines alloca (in some
> cases), the blob redefines alloca.  Is this something we need to fix
> (by not including <stdlib.h> I would suppose) or is it something that
> we toss into the autoconf people's court?

Assuming we're using the blob correctly then it's an autoconf problem.

Is the blob supposed to come before including <stdlib.h>?  Though that
sounds too easy to mess up, you'd hope the blob could be made to cope
with being after.