On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > I'd try compiling with gcc -Wall. Most likely > you have a prototype missing. malloc is builtin > to the compiler but xmalloc is not.
Thank you Paul, You had exactly correct hunch, my compiler flags did not have proper include directory definition[1], which combined with missing include resulted to rather peculiar symptoms. [1] AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_builddir)/lib -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/