Re: [Bug-gnulib] Patch proposal: 1-gary-safe-xfree.patch

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> > +     address@hidden:@if _POSIX_VERSION < 200112 && !defined __GLIBC__
> > +        @%:@error "'free (NULL)' is not known to work"
> > +       @%:@endif]])],
> 
> This is too conservative. This test succeeds only on glibc systems,
> and fails on Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, AIX, Woe32.

OK, how about if we change it to plain '#ifndef _POSIX_VERSION'?  That
should work on all the systems that you mentioned, except perhaps
Woe32 (which I don't know much about, but people who do can suggest an
ifdef perhaps).