malloc.h in pnetcdf

Wei-keng Liao wkliao at ece.northwestern.edu
Thu Dec 10 12:54:29 CST 2009


I think it is safe to remove this include.
We have been using malloc() etc. calls for a
long time without including malloc.h.

mvar.h is for a newly added feature for
multiple variable/request I/O. There may
be still some loose ends.

Wei-keng

On Dec 10, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Rob Ross wrote:

> Thanks Bill. At the very least that needs a configure test. -- Rob
>
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 10:02 AM, William Gropp wrote:
>
>> My build is now failing in the files that include mvar.h - this  
>> file includes malloc.h , which isn't standard and isn't available  
>> on Mac OSX.  What definition is this header supplying?  malloc and  
>> friends are now part of stdlib.h .  Should this include either be  
>> removed or changed to
>>
>> #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>> #endif
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> William Gropp
>> Deputy Director for Research
>> Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies
>> Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science
>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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