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Re: [RFA] Change malloc to xmalloc
Kevin Buettner wrote:
> Also, when you change something with PTR in it, just change the ``PTR''
> to ``void *''.
It depends. There are a uses of PTR lurking in GDB where the function
being declared/defined needs to match something in an external header.
Something todo with mmalloc() from memory.
> [...]
> > Index: stuff.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/stuff.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.2
>
> I think you should leave stuff.c alone. It's a stand-alone program
> that doesn't link in utils.c. (Actually, I think stuff.c ought
> to be marked obsolete and eventually deleted.)
Hmm, yes, that has been proposed before (by someone called KevinB? :-).
This should be added to the 5.1 TODO list so that it does actually
happen :-)
enjoy,
Andrew