Patch: FYI: natFile -vs- stack

[Bryce McKinlay]

Tom Tromey wrote:

>I'm checking this in.
>
>This changes natFile.cc so that it doesn't stack allocate any buffers,
>and so that the buffers it allocates are the right size.  It also
>removes a global which I think isn't really needed.
>

I think its very unfortunate (for performance) to be allocating on every 
stat() call etc. Is there no other way to fix this? How about 
__builtin_alloca() ?

regards

Bryce.