RE: [xml] Use of 'strdup' in xmlmemory.c?

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 6:59 PM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> Subject: Re: [xml] Use of 'strdup' in xmlmemory.c?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:41:01PM +0100, Henke, Markus wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > i'm trying to compile libxml2 on MPE i/X 6.0 (and that is a pretty
> > adventure, btw... 8)
> 
>   Well as long as you have an ansi compiler this should not be that
> hard (this uses ASCII for C strings encoding I hope).
 
Hope so, and indeed i'm a big step up the ladder since i've found
a workeround for a parser bug in HP C/iX compiler (see coming
post regarding that subject...).
But there is still a major problem that lets the './configure' skript
generate inapplicable header files:
(From HP 3000 MPE/iX porting guide)

"At link time, unresolved external symbols are not returned as an error
condition because MPE supports run-time binding to external libraries."

The result is that './configure' find each and every function that it
scans, so the HAVE_... macros are all defined (many of them erroneously).
At least IMHO there is a coherence...

> > That platform doesn't provide a 'strdup()'-function, which 
> is a pitty but OK
> > inasmuch as it's not ANSI conform (AFAIK).
> 
>   Yup, I used to work on a DecStation which hadn't it either
> 
> > So, HAVE_STRDUP if  *undefined*  in "config.h", trio 
> support is  *enabled*
> > in "xmlversion.h" (although i don't know if trio cares 
> about 'strdup()').
> 
>   I don't think so.
> 
> >   669:   xmlStrdupFunc xmlMemStrdup = (xmlStrdupFunc) strdup;
> >   670: #endif
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but could it be that this is a vioalation of 
> the portability
> > rules of libxml?
> 
>   Yep, it's bad replace it with 
> 
>   xmlStrdupFunc xmlMemStrdup = (xmlStrdupFunc) xmlStrdup;

Yep, done that...

> BTW with more recent version of the libraries it's in globals.c

Yes, i know i'm somewhat afterwards (2.4.6), but i fear that it
makes no sense to switch to a recent version as long as i havn't
solved the basic problems.
 
> Daniel
 
Thanx, Markus

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