On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org> wrote:

The omalloc build system seems to be old, so maybe it was back in
the old days that some other ar on some esoteric platform failed
on them and it was band-aided with this check?

If you talk to them, you could ask them for the check, it's there since 1999, I suppose there is no good reason now for this.