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Re: PATCH for global.c
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: PATCH for global.c
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:17:01 -0700
- cc: mark at markmitchell dot com, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19981212211712.D22197@dot.cygnus.com>you write:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:07:46PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > > About 1100, IIRC. I thought about this; I'm sure that using alloca i
> s
> > > *not* appropriate in most of the places we use it, but I didn't see a
> > > *compelling* reason to change it here, as opposed to anywhere else.
> [...]
> > Anything approaching a meg is (IMHO) not suitable for alloca.
>
> Since this turned out to be ~4k, I tend to agree with Mark
> that this one isn't crying out to be replaced.
Agreed. The joys of bit packing :-)
jeff