bug#7859: syncing Emacs from sources maintained elsewhere

[Jan D.]

Paul Eggert skrev 2011-01-20 08:51:
> On 01/19/2011 10:45 PM, Jan Djärv wrote:
> > /* config.h #define:s malloc/realloc/free and then includes stdlib.h.
> >     We want the undefined versions, but if config.h includes stdlib.h
> >     with the #define:s in place, the prototypes will be wrong and we get
> >     warnings.  To prevent that, include stdlib.h before config.h.  */
>
> OK, I see.  There's a better way, one that doesn't potentially mess up
> the ABI.  Namely, Emacs can supply a stdlib.h wrapper that #defines
> malloc/realloc/free the way we like.  gnulib already does
> that, but Emacs doesn't use gnulib's stdlib.h wrapper.
> At some point, perhaps Emacs will, and then we can look into
> this issue again.

It is just for unexmacosx.c we want undefined malloc/free/realloc.
For other files we wan't the defined ones.
We can tweek the m/darwin.h file instead where these defines are.

        Jan D.