GNU bug report logs - #18410
Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack allocation.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:10:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 18410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 18410 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18410: Use SAFE_ALLOCA etc. to avoid unbounded stack
 allocation.
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:03:54 -0700

Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> If __GNUC__, can't we use __attribute__ ((cleanup (freeing_function)))
> for implicit calls
> to SAFE_FREE

We could, but I don't see how this would help.  For non-GNUC we need to 
call the freeing function explicitly anyway, so __attribute__ ((cleanup 
...)) would simply clutter up the source, no?  Or perhaps I'm not 
understanding the suggestion.
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