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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
June 20, 2003 02:17
Subject:
Re: your malloc patches
Message ID:
20030620091744.GM426218@kosh.hut.fi
> > > I do not understand... I think the (broken) macro MALLOC_CHECK_TAINT2
> > > appears in the expansion of PERL_SYS_INIT(); but PERL_SYS_INIT() is
> > > long as obsoleted by PERL_SYS_INIT3(); how comes that this defect
> >
> > Obsoleted in OS/2.
>
> ??? If somebody uses PERL_SYS_INIT(), the software is not portable.
> And I could not find it in .c files outside ./NetWare and ./win32
> directory... So, what do you mean?
Ooops, you are right. PERL_SYS_INIT() is not used anymore. But
through whatever the tortuous cpp path, somehow the ,) form ended up
being used in UNIX, and that was not good.
> > > became visible?
>
> Ilya
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