Missing (?) function mallinfo

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)]

Steve Baldwin wrote:
> I'm having problems porting some Unix code to cygwin.  Here's a small
> sample, and the error I'm seeing.  Any help appreciated.
> 
> Steve
> 
> [cdev]$ cat a.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <malloc.h>
> 
> int
> main (int argc, char **argv) {
>         struct mallinfo         mi ;
> 
>         mi = mallinfo() ;
> }
> [cdev]$ gcc a.c -o a
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/STBALD~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/cc6nUjGR.o(.text+0x25):a.c:
> undefined reference to `_mallinfo'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Looks like this comes from newlib and hasn't been exported from cygwin1.dll
in cygwin.din (Chris Faylor added a whole bunch of stuff to Cygwin
snapshots from newlib last week but this isn't one of them... otherwise
I'd suggest a snapshot ;-) )

Want to submit a patch for this?

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