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Re: gawk latest 3.1.3 build on SunOS 4.1.4


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: gawk latest 3.1.3 build on SunOS 4.1.4
Date: 30 Oct 2003 22:57:17 -0800
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"Marchant, Stephen" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been working with the gawk latest "released" 3.1.3 sources and trying
> to build on my SunOS 4.1.4 machine and came across a few problems.

Out of curiosity, what are you using that machine for?  This is the
first SunOS 4.1.4 machine I've heard of being used to build any GNU
software in quite some time.

> The first (obvious) problem is that there is no "memmove" function...

The GNULib memmove module handles that problem.
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/lib/memmove.c
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/memmove.m4

> The next (not-so-obvious) problem is that realloc doesn't work with NULL

The GNULib realloc module handles that problem.
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/lib/realloc.c
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnulib/gnulib/m4/realloc.m4




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