Is this a bug in libffi testsuite on solaris2.8?

[Jeff Sturm]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> As an aside, I've occasionally thought that it would be nice for
> the C compiler to have the ability to synthesize calls to malloc
> and free for large alloca requests.  If we had this, we could
> also use it for nested function trampolines, adding more overhead
> but avoiding this sort of issue.

Sounds like a good idea to me.  You'd need a cleanup for -fexceptions, but
the C compiler supports cleanups since 3.3.1, I think.

Jeff