Question about memory allocation in ifcvt.c

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe Ian can mention why he used alloca there instead of xmalloc.

It was a long time ago, but I expect it was just because alloca is
usually fine for memory that has to live for just a single function.
As a single-threaded program, GCC doesn't normally have severe limits
on stack size.  This can't have been too big a problem, as I added the
code in GCC 4.2 and this is the first complaint I've seen.

In any case, as Steven points out, this has been fixed in mainline.

Ian