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Re: [patch] alloca is dangerous to users health

On Apr 29, 1999, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:

> On Apr 29, 1999, korbb@egcs.cygnus.com wrote:
>> [...] no trouble on my GCC/EGCS compiled systems, I have now found a
>> memory leak for most other systems.

> Indeed, it would cause incomplete fixincludes on my alpha-dec-osf4.0d,
> when bootstrapping with cc.  Using egcs 1.1.2 as the bootstrap
> compiler fixed the problem, so we definitely need a fix.  I'll try
> your patch now.

Nope, it was not enough :-(  It still eats up all memory, even after
your patch.

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