Re: guile 1.6.8 make check failure on AIX 6.1

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Rainer Tammer <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Under Linux: is not NULL
>>> Under AIX: is NULL
>
> Note: in HEAD, we could use the `malloc' and `realloc' Gnulib modules to
> address this.

Hmm, yes, we could.  But (i) gnulib's malloc works by allocating 1
byte when 0 are requested, so would introduce small errors into our GC
counting, (ii) I think it's quite easy anyway just to avoid making the
0-byte malloc calls.

The avoidance patch apparently works, so I will go ahead with that for
now.  We can always come back to the gnulib approach if we need to in
future.

Regards,
        Neil