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

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

The following reply was made to PR bin/44235; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
martin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
        uwe%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/44235: lint1 fails when compiling mesa for sparc
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:42:16 -0500

 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