Re: bin/44235: lint1 fails when compiling mesa for sparc

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 17,  8:19am, david%l8s.co.uk@localhost (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/44235: lint1 fails when compiling mesa for sparc

| On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:05:03AM +0000, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
| > The following reply was made to PR bin/44235; it has been noted by GNATS.
| > 
| > From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
| > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
| > Cc: 
| > Subject: Re: bin/44235: lint1 fails when compiling mesa for sparc
| > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 05:00:25 +0300
| > 
| >  xgetblk doesn't check if the next free block it pick up has enough
| >  space for the allocation.  We come asking for s=41104 bytes, there
| >  isn't enough space in the current block, so we get one from freelist
| >  and don't check that it has enough space, so in
| >  usr.bin/xlint/lint1/mem1.c
| 
| Is lint using its own 'malloc' built on top of the system one?
| Or is something else going on here??
| 
| If malloc isn't good enough it should be fixed!

That was my thought too... It uses its own pool allocator.

christos