Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi. I am attempting to update oath-toolkit to latest gnulib, but ran
> into this compiler warning:
>
> call to 'free' declared with attribute warning: free is not future POSIX
> compliant everywhere - use gnulib module free for portability
>
> I can't find any gnulib module 'free'.
We named it to 'free-posix' on 2020-12-18, but forgot to update this message.
Also, the designated "future POSIX" was released as POSIX:2024.
2024-11-19 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
stdlib: Adjust warning about function 'free'.
Reported by Simon Josefsson in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-11/msg00158.html>.
* lib/stdlib.in.h (free): Talk about POSIX:2024, not future POSIX.
Recommend module 'free-posix'.
diff --git a/lib/stdlib.in.h b/lib/stdlib.in.h
index a34fe66bfb..adbef69131 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib.in.h
+++ b/lib/stdlib.in.h
@@ -291,8 +291,8 @@ _GL_CXXALIASWARN (free);
#elif defined GNULIB_POSIXCHECK
# undef free
/* Assume free is always declared. */
-_GL_WARN_ON_USE (free, "free is not future POSIX compliant everywhere - "
- "use gnulib module free for portability");
+_GL_WARN_ON_USE (free, "free is not POSIX:2024 compliant everywhere - "
+ "use gnulib module free-posix for portability");
#endif
