Re: grow_heap: static linking warns about madvise() not implemented

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Saturday 21 July 2007, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> When statically linking on a system on which madvise() wasn't ported,
> the linker complains:
>
> /bin/../lib/gcc/i486-gnu/4.0.4/../../../libcrt.a(malloc.o): In function
> `grow_heap': (.text+0x3t4): warning: warning: madvise is not implemented
> and will always fail
>
> should there really be such linker warning for madvise() whose failure
> doesn't have any semantic consequences, just no boost of performance?

of course.  you tried to use a func that is stubbed out, so you get a warning 
about it.
-mike

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