Implementing alloca with malloc

[Fergus Henderson]

On 28-Jul-2003, Stephen Biggs <xyzzy@hotpop.com> wrote:
> GCC 3.2, I need to implement alloca in the back-end without messing with
> the stack. I see in the docs that I can probably use malloc with the
> expression for the var in the "allocate_stack" insn, no problem.  How do
> I then free it?

Have a look at the alloca() implementation in libiberty/alloca.c.
You can probably use that.

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