On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:

: > ports/graphics/ImageMagick uses:
: > @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|<malloc.h>|<stdlib.h>|g' ${WRKSRC}/ltdl/ltdl.c
: >
: > And many other FreeBSD ports do this too.
:
: You'd think they'd learn about the error of their ways when they end up
: having to hack around some silly thing like that.....  :-)

You'd think that software authors would learn about the error of their ways
when things stop compiling, too.  <malloc.h> has been obsolete for literally
*decades* at this point.

But then, things won't stop compiling on many operating systems unless you
do something standards-sane like defining _POSIX_SOURCE.  8-)

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