Bug#101579: how to fix?

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Matthew Wilcox writes:

> What I did for this was simply add a declaration:

> char *memcpy ();

> and this fixes the problem -- ia64 makes a big distinction between
> char * and int.

> Unfortunately, I can't regenerate configure from configure.in (actually
> common.ac) using autoconf.

Are you sure it isn't

        char *malloc ();

that needs to be added?  There is no memcpy in the code, but there are
malloc calls -- and since we're using the return value of malloc,
declaring it really the right thing to do.

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Olaf Weber

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