On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 11:29 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Probably there should be an effort to switch to heap for anything that > > might get large and reserve alloca() usage just for things we know for a > > fact will not get too large, but that hasn't been done. > > ... and anywhere you use a scanf variant, glibc is also using > alloca(), without knowing any bound: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553206
Yes, unpleasant for sure. Luckly GNU make doesn't use *scanf() much at all and were it does only in fairly well-defined situations. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <psm...@gnu.org> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
