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Re: Reduce alloca 'ted memory in dwarf2out.c

From: "Christophe Jaillet" <christophe dot jaillet at wanadoo dot fr>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow at false dot org>
Cc: <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:49:35 +0100
Subject: Re: Reduce alloca 'ted memory in dwarf2out.c
References: <00ac01c51224$cf65b900$96cefea9@none> <20050213234042.GA22407@nevyn.them.org>

Even if on the stack, why request more than needed ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@false.org>
To: "Christophe Jaillet" <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: Reduce alloca 'ted memory in dwarf2out.c


> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:36:15AM +0100, Christophe Jaillet wrote:
> > Description : in gcc/dwarf2out.c, some memory allocated with alloca
request
> > too much. Just ask for what is needed
> >
> > Note : the first part of the patch assume that %x of
comdat_symbol_number is
> > less than 10 bytes
> > The second part is always OK.
>
> What benefit does this have?  It's on the stack and not long-lived...
>
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery, LLC
>
>

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