Subject: lib/583: runtime linker error with libgnumalloc
To: None <gnats-admin@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <salvet@nyx.dcs.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/22/1994 11:35:04
>Number:         583
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       runtime linker error with libgnumalloc, vlimit undefined
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (Library Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 22 11:35:03 1994
>Originator:     Zdenek Salvet
>Organization:
>Release:        1.0
>Environment:
System: NetBSD nyx.dcs.muni.cz 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (NYX) #0: Fri Nov 11 00:17:10 MET 1994 root@nyx.dcs.muni.cz:/usr/sup/files/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NYX i386


>Description:
  libgnumalloc uses obsolete vlimit, which is only in libcompat.a,
  apps using memory_warnings() are killed by runtime link error
  (gnu tools in distribution probably don't use memory_warnings() )

>How-To-Repeat:
  call memory_warnings() from libgnumalloc and try to allocate some memory

>Fix:
  add 
   #define BSD4_2
   #include <sys/types.h>
  to src/gnu/lib/libmalloc/mem-limits.h

>Audit-Trail:
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