Question about memory allocation in ifcvt.c

[thorsten]

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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

Thanks for the hints, I will try to backport the fix to 4.5


thorsten