On 4/19/24 15:15, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 14:38 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM Paul Smith wrote:
The main advantages to alloca are twofold:
1) efficiency for small local buffers, which GNU Make uses a lot.
2) simplification of the code because
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 14:38 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> > The main advantages to alloca are twofold:
> >
> > 1) efficiency for small local buffers, which GNU Make uses a lot.
> >
> > 2) simplification of the code because you don't have to
On 4/19/24 14:38, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM Paul Smith wrote:
The main advantages to alloca are twofold:
1) efficiency for small local buffers, which GNU Make uses a lot.
2) simplification of the code because you don't have to track this
memory and ensure it's
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM Paul Smith wrote:
> The main advantages to alloca are twofold:
>
> 1) efficiency for small local buffers, which GNU Make uses a lot.
>
> 2) simplification of the code because you don't have to track this
> memory and ensure it's freed regardless of how the function
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 13:15 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Yep. The calls to alloca() seem to be all over the place in the code
> base and I can not figure out why anyone would want a non-portable
> and non-standard thing like that but here we are.
alloca() has been used in the GNU Make code ever
On 4/19/24 10:27, Paul Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:54 -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports and
discussion for GNU make wrote:
Where does one even begin to discover where something ( everything? )
went so horribly wrong?
The very first thing you should try is re-configuring GNU Make
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:54 -0400, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports and
discussion for GNU make wrote:
> Where does one even begin to discover where something ( everything? )
> went so horribly wrong?
The very first thing you should try is re-configuring GNU Make without
any special flags (unset
