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Re: Is this a bug in libffi testsuite on solaris2.8?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:14:28 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Is this a bug in libffi testsuite on solaris2.8?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> As an aside, I've occasionally thought that it would be nice for
> the C compiler to have the ability to synthesize calls to malloc
> and free for large alloca requests. If we had this, we could
> also use it for nested function trampolines, adding more overhead
> but avoiding this sort of issue.
Sounds like a good idea to me. You'd need a cleanup for -fexceptions, but
the C compiler supports cleanups since 3.3.1, I think.
Jeff