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Re: use of alloca in function prologue
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Lerwill <mlist at ml-solutions dot co dot uk>
- Cc: "Gcc at Gcc dot Gnu. Org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:46:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: use of alloca in function prologue
- References: <FGELLPDBIBNCBLEECDELOEGNGKAA.mlist@ml-solutions.co.uk>
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:59:16PM +0100, Mike Lerwill wrote:
> When allocating a large amount function local variables the prologue uses
> alloca instead of simple stack allocation.
This only happens when configured for a windows target, as
that's what the ABI sez.
> Is there any way to work around this (I don't have alloca implemented)
Configure for a different target.
r~