[Geany] Geany and malloc on AIX 5.3 - Users

4 Jun 2007


      Hi all,
I just finished compiling Geany on AIX v5.3 and it now works
after little tinkering.
The problem I encountered was that AIX doesn't have a 'malloc'
conforming to 'GNU malloc', so configure defines 'malloc' as
'rpl_malloc'. Geany doesn't provide this replacement
function so the compiling fails at link time.
I bypassed this by editing config.h and Geany seems to work
fine with native AIX malloc. But I think the right solution is
to provide the replacement function as autoconf documentation
suggests. Here's a sample, copy-pasted from the autoconf manual:
###snip###
#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include <config.h>
#endif
#undef malloc
#include <sys/types.h>
void *malloc (size_t);
/* Allocate an N-byte block of memory from the heap.
   If N is zero, allocate a 1-byte block.  */
void *
rpl_malloc (size_t n)
{
    if (n == 0)
    	n = 1;
    return malloc (n);
}
###snip###
Best regards,
-Harri