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authorJim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>1993-05-24 15:57:15 +0000
committerJim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>1993-05-24 15:57:15 +0000
commit8960f971ca7cc9866fd7f99e9c573e42f13f3431 (patch)
treebe17d28d1711f29e61e0cffd2961e7527708edc8
parentff71fe92778968fe8efab594d5310acc13d721d5 (diff)
downloadgunmake-8960f971ca7cc9866fd7f99e9c573e42f13f3431.tar.gz
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diff --git a/alloca.c b/alloca.c
index bc34529..30efa5a 100644
--- a/alloca.c
+++ b/alloca.c
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ typedef char *pointer;
#define NULL 0
+/* Different portions of Emacs need to call different versions of
+ malloc. The Emacs executable needs alloca to call xmalloc, because
+ ordinary malloc isn't protected from input signals. On the other
+ hand, the utilities in lib-src need alloca to call malloc; some of
+ them are very simple, and don't have an xmalloc routine.
+
+ Everybody else should just call malloc. */
+#ifndef emacs
+extern pointer malloc ();
+#endif
+
/* Define STACK_DIRECTION if you know the direction of stack
growth for your system; otherwise it will be automatically
deduced at run-time.