some snippets from make381, 2/2

2005-03-09 Thread Markus Mauhart
"Markus Mauhart" wrote ... > > during some long ago experiments with make381beta1 sources I've > gathered some questionable code snippets, some maybe bugs, but > didnt find the time to discuss them, now I thought better now > than even later. > If necessary I can file something to savannah. > A few

Re: some snippets from make381

2005-03-09 Thread Markus Mauhart
> Thanks Markus. I hope 50% of my list is worth some troubles during 381-release. > You don't have a copy of GNU diff lying around on your Windows system do > you? yes, but better dont ask ... my sources last year suddenly got so much changes that you would need 1 week to filter out the few rele

Re: some snippets from make381

2005-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "Markus Mauhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mm> during some long ago experiments with make381beta1 sources I've mm> gathered some questionable code snippets, some maybe bugs, but mm> didnt find the time to discuss them, now I thought better now mm> than even later. Thanks Markus. You

some snippets from make381

2005-03-09 Thread Markus Mauhart
Hi, during some long ago experiments with make381beta1 sources I've gathered some questionable code snippets, some maybe bugs, but didnt find the time to discuss them, now I thought better now than even later. If necessary I can file something to savannah. A few others are still to be extracted f

Re: PATCH: virtual memory exhausted when xmalloc(0) returns 0

2005-03-09 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% "John Jenniskens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jj> This occurs on platforms where malloc(0) returns 0. I've found the jj> error on AIX and on TRU64 (dec-osf) platforms. Just a note: the 1989 ANSI C standard (adopted as the ISO C standard in 1990) required that malloc(0) return a valid point

PATCH: virtual memory exhausted when xmalloc(0) returns 0

2005-03-09 Thread John Jenniskens
Hello, Given the following very small makefile: all: @echo TEST Succesfull!! make-3.80 with --no-builtin-rules fails: /home/huminf/johnj> make --no-builtin-rules -f test.mak make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop. This occurs on platforms where malloc(0) returns 0. I've found