Question about memory allocation in ifcvt.c

[Steven Bosscher]

Andrew Pinski Wrote:
>> I figured out that ifcvt.c uses alloca to reserve mem on the stack. this is
>> the point where the segmentation fault occurs.
>
> It is also a regression from what I can tell too from 4.1.x.

And one that's fixed for GCC 4.8.
See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-08/msg00270.html

If it's a regression then perhaps the patch could be back-ported to
open release branches.

Ciao!
Steven