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Don't use valloc; it's buggy on some GNU/Linux systems, and it returns

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storage that can't be freed on older BSD systems.
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Paul Eggert
2004-08-03 04:46:37 +00:00
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2004-08-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* bootstrap (gnulib_modules): Add getpagesize.
* configure.ac (valloc): Remove check; valloc no longer used.
* lib/.cvsignore: Add getpagesize.h.
* m4/.cvsignore: Add getpagesize.m4.
* src/buffer.c (record_buffer): New var.
(open_archive): Don't use valloc; on older or buggy hosts, you can't
free the result. Use page_aligned_alloc instead.
* src/compare.c (diff_init): Likewise.
* src/buffer.c (open_archive): Record the pointer to be freed
into record_buffer.
(close_archive): Free record_buffer.
* src/common.h (page_aligned_alloc): New decl.
* src/misc.c (quote_n, quote): Remove these redundant functions.
(ptr_align): New function, from coreutils/src/system.h.
(page_aligned_alloc): New function.
* src/system.h (valloc): Remove.
2004-07-09 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
* src/extract.c (extract_archive): Do not report an error