Re: gawk 3.1.1 has bad configure check for mmap() on Solaris

[Aharon Robbins]

Thanks for the report. This will likely be fixed when I move off Autoconf 2.13.
I'm not sure when that will be though.

Arnold

> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 20:15:38 +0200
> From: Drazen Kacar <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: gawk 3.1.1 has bad configure check for mmap() on Solaris
>
> Hi,
>
> Configure script for gawk 3.1.1 on Solaris 8 with Sun's compiler claims
> that mmap() doesn't work. config.log reports this:
>
> "configure", line 2900: identifier redeclared: malloc
>         current : function() returning pointer to char
>         previous: function(unsigned int) returning pointer to void :
>                 "/usr/include/iso/stdlib_iso.h", line 105
> cc: acomp failed for conftest.c
>
> The problem is in the following lines in mmap configure check:
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" { void *malloc(unsigned); }
> #else
> char *malloc();
> #endif
>
>
> Changing the declaration to "void *malloc();" fixes the problem.
>
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