# HG changeset patch # User "Yann E. MORIN" # Date 1209746881 0 # Node ID 86c2bdaad27c1a360306032752badcf95a73e69d # Parent fdc40a921d800b1efccc92fd16608c43ef4bab21 Update known issues with dmalloc failure. /trunk/docs/known-issues.txt | 15 14 1 0 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -r fdc40a921d80 -r 86c2bdaad27c docs/known-issues.txt --- a/docs/known-issues.txt Fri May 02 08:41:38 2008 +0000 +++ b/docs/known-issues.txt Fri May 02 16:48:01 2008 +0000 @@ -2,4 +2,17 @@ As of linux-2.6.25, asm/page.h is no longer exported. This means the glibc up to and including 2.6.1 will not build against headers -exported from linux-2.6.25 and up. Status of glibc 2.7 and above is unknown. +exported from linux-2.6.25 and up. Status of glibc-2.7 and above is unknown. + +---- +dmalloc does not build + +This broken build has been observed for big endian ARm with glibc and NPTL, +and with i686 with glibc and NPTL. + +This has not been fully investigated yet. There is a name clash with strdup, +where it is a macro somewhere, and dmalloc tries to re-declare a strdup +function in dmalloc.h, but the declaration is overwritten with the macro +expansion, and thus the build is broken. + +The common denominator seems to be NPTL.