[Q] [21.5R21.4] [PATCH] Use system malloc on ppc64.

[Ville Skyttä]

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On Tuesday 26 December 2006 13:53, Malcolm Purvis wrote:
> 21.5 RECOMMEND 21.4
>
> Building on ppc64 linux systems and alpha systems fail because of problems
> with the Doug Lea malloc.  This patch make these systems use the system
> malloc by default.
>
> BTW, we've been recommending this solution for a while, eg:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/8074/focus=8078

Hm, interestingly that thread refers to ia64, but that's still apparently not 
using the system malloc by default, so:

> +#if defined(__powerpc64__) || defined(__alpha__)
> +#define SYSTEM_MALLOC
> +#endif

...perhaps add "|| defined(__ia64__)" to that?

I don't have access to an ia64 box, but FWIW, XEmacs packages from Red Hat 
have been built with system malloc for it about since the above thread.