malloc.h obsolete...

Darrin Chandler dwchandler at stilyagin.com
Sat Dec 29 21:53:47 MSK 2007


On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:39:21PM +0300, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:05:56AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 
> > I have a question regarding this warning message (which is repeated many
> > times):
> > 
> > In file included from src/os/unix/ngx_posix_config.h:74,
> >                  from src/core/ngx_config.h:37,
> >                  from src/core/nginx.c:7:
> > /usr/include/malloc.h:4:2: warning: #warning "<malloc.h> is obsolete, use <stdlib.h>"
> > 
> > stdlib.h seems to be assumed always, and malloc.h hasn't been needed for
> > some time. Do some of the supported systems still use malloc.h instead
> > of stdlib.h for this stuff? Or can the malloc.h detection simply be
> > removed from auto/headers, ngx_posix_config.h, et al?
> 
> What OS ?
> malloc.h is required for memalign(), however, now memalign() is not used in
> nginx.

This is on OpenBSD. I maintain the OpenBSD nginx port, and I am looking
for ways to reduce warnings and generally improve platform support.

FYI, it's working well as far as I've tested except for mail, which I
have not set up an auth server to test yet.

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