The malloc-gnu (then malloc) dependency was added at
91f0c71300fb4f48cd39df121b8434f56012502c in response to a bug report
with sed built against uClibc:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-08/msg00112.html
The error was directly fixed at bbf0d723ed2335add96bcc0f842885d8a5d8b6d
Nathan Kennedy wrote:
I think this dependency can be removed.
Thanks, I installed a patch along those lines.
the MALLOC_0_IS_NONNULL macro attempting to check for
malloc(0) failure is not needed.
It's not needed for correctness, but it helps performance on GNU hosts,
no? It lets them avoi
