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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: Les Cargill <lcargill AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 16:42:58 GMT
> >
> > Just to be persnickety, he asked about <alloh.h>. There are things
> > declared there other than malloc().
> 
> Those other things are either in stddef.h or specific to Bolrand and
> not available anywhere else (coreleft).  In the latter case, the
> problem is not the header, but the absence of the functions in the
> library.
> 
> So if the OP is porting the program to DJGPP, he needs to stop using
> non-portable functions, and _then_ stdlib.h and stddef.h will be
> enough.
> 
> > There is probably no direct <alloc.h> replacement in GNU.
> 
> DJGPP is not GNU, it's a separate project.  And its library is not the
> GNU C library, it was written from scratch, specifically for the DJGPP
> project.

Doh! Thanks for the correction. My bad. 

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