obstack problems in cc1plus

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 25, 2000, Peter Lawrence <Peter.Lawrence@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:

> there is a mis-use of obstacks and consequent memory corruption in 
> cc1plus, both gcc-2.8.1 and gcc-2.95.1.

Yup.  Probably several of them.  Fortunately, we no longer use
obstacks in cc1plus, in the development sources.  A garbage collector
is used instead.  You may want to give a snapshot a try.

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