[PATCH] Set DEMANGLE_RECURSION_LIMIT to 1536

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Tue Dec 11 10:34:00 GMT 2018


On 12/11/2018 12:33 AM, Jeff Law wrote:

> Actually I would strongly suggest avoiding alloca completely.  This
> isn't particularly performance sensitive code 

On the contrary, the demangler is very performance-sensitive code for GDB.

See <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2018-11/msg00257.html>
and Tromey's response.

> and alloca can be abused
> in all kinds of interesting ways.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves



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