<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 16:02 +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Twas brillig at 21:36:41 08.12.2009 UTC-05 when <A HREF="mailto:gaetan.nadon@videotron.ca">gaetan.nadon@videotron.ca</A> did gyre and gimble: GN> libX11 fails to cross-compile unless --enable-malloc0returnsnull is GN> given during configuration, since configure can't run test programs GN> in this situation. Why not give it? GN> This is a sensible conservative default that should be used by GN> default when cross-compiling rather than requiring it to be forced GN> explicitly. I'd prefer configure to explicitly fail instead of silently making choices behind my back. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> I looked at the code using MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL and malloc(0) is replaced with malloc(1) to avoid a NULL being returned. A production or benchmark build should still pass the correct value for an optimum build. Would that information influence your preference? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list <A HREF="mailto:xorg-devel@lists.x.org">xorg-devel@lists.x.org</A> <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel">http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel</A> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>