Re: [Bug-readline] please rename xmalloc

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Chet" == Chet Ramey <address@hidden> writes:

Chet> Then this suggests that linking with libibterty before libreadline
Chet> would solve the problem. But see below...

Yeah.  I'll give it a try.  That would certainly be simplest; though in
the long run I think changing readline is still a reasonable thing to
do.

Tom> Yeah, this is the case in 6.2 as well.

Chet> Not as it was distributed.  If someone did a merge from 6.1 and somehow
Chet> left xmalloc.c unmodified, I can see it. However, the version available
Chet> for ftp from gnu.org and cwru.edu doesn't have xfree in xmalloc.c (it
Chet> moved to xfree.c).

I can't really vouch for the previous import :)

Tom