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Re: [PATCH] Set DEMANGLE_RECURSION_LIMIT to 1536
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, sgayou at redhat dot com, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:07:12 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set DEMANGLE_RECURSION_LIMIT to 1536
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On 12/11/2018 02:25 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 3:05 AM Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Ian earlier mentioned that we've wanted to avoid malloc because some
>> programs call the demangler from a signal handler, but it seems like
>> we already do, these functions already aren't safe to use from
>> signal handlers as is. Where does the "we can't use malloc" idea
>> come from? Is there some entry point that avoids
>> the malloc/realloc/free calls?
>
> cplus_demangle_v3_callback and cplus_demangle_print_callback.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks! Interesting.
Pedro Alves