Re: regex no longer needs to depend on malloc-gnu

2014-04-17 Thread Paul Eggert
Nathan Kennedy wrote: I think this dependency can be removed. Thanks, I installed a patch along those lines. the MALLOC_0_IS_NONNULL macro attempting to check for malloc(0) failure is not needed. It's not needed for correctness, but it helps performance on GNU hosts, no? It lets them avoi

regex no longer needs to depend on malloc-gnu

2014-04-17 Thread Nathan Kennedy
The malloc-gnu (then malloc) dependency was added at 91f0c71300fb4f48cd39df121b8434f56012502c in response to a bug report with sed built against uClibc: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-08/msg00112.html The error was directly fixed at bbf0d723ed2335add96bcc0f842885d8a5d8b6d