Re: lib/malloca.c: error when compiling "groff"

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/14/22 16:08, Bruno Haible wrote:
> >    CC       lib/libgnu_a-malloca.o
> > ../lib/malloca.c:42:16: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 
> > numeric constant
> >     42 | static_assert (2 * sa_alignment_max - 1 <= (small_t) -1);
> >        |                ^
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:8629: lib/libgnu_a-malloca.o] Error 1
> Can you please show the full compilation command line? (Sometimes you may
> use "make V=1" to see it.)

I'm not seeing a problem on Fedora 36 x86-64, which has gcc (GCC) 12.1.1 
20220507 (Red Hat 12.1.1-1), when I use current 
(d6f25832c0a02500602e44153e265e10a1d67ce4) Gnulib. When I bootstrap from 
current groff sources (5a1d89a4b59cc8b91d6b98f699258bf9a14041f5, but 
with the attached patch), there is no lib/malloca.c and therefore no 
need or way to build lib/libgnu_a-malloca.o. So it'd be helpful to know 
exactly what sources were used here, and why malloca.c was being compiled.

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