--disable-newlib-atexit-alloc

[Freddie Chopin <freddie_chopin at op dot pl>]

Hi!

The wording in the configure script's usage section:

>   --disable-newlib-atexit-alloc    disable dynamic allocation of atexit entries

suggests that if this option is NOT given then atexit has dynamic 
allocation. And indeed - when this option is NOT given newlib.h has:

> /* True if atexit() may dynamically allocate space for cleanup
>    functions.  */
> #define _ATEXIT_DYNAMIC_ALLOC 1

But, if this option IS given, then newlib.h still has exactly the same 
entry, so malloc() and free() are NOT disabled.

By examining the configure script's fragment

> # Check whether --enable-newlib-atexit-dynamic-alloc was given.
> if test "${enable_newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc+set}" = set; then :
>   enableval=$enable_newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc; if test "${newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc+set}" != set; then
>   case "${enableval}" in
>     yes) newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc=yes ;;
>     no)  newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc=no  ;;
>     *)   as_fn_error $? "bad value ${enableval} for newlib-atexit-dynamic-alloc option" "$LINENO" 5 ;;
>   esac
>  fi
> else
>   newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc=${newlib_atexit_dynamic_alloc}
> fi

it seems that the wording in the info section is wrong, and the option 
should be "--disable-newlib-atexit-dynamic-alloc" (with "-dynamic"), right?

If that's the case, then patch is attached.

Regards,
FCh

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