Charles Wilson wrote: > Revised patch attached. I'm wondering, tho, about the advisability of > using alloca'ed (rather than malloc'ed) memory to hold the contents of a > file of unrestricted size. Aren't there limits on the available space > within a single stack frame? Does it make sense (is it legal) to alloca > 40k or 50k or 500k? of memory?
It doesn't sound like the greatest idea in the world. If you try to alloca() more than what's available on the stack you get a SEGV or similar, and there's no way to check for success/failure other than just hoping that it doesn't happen, afaik. On the other hand, as long as the program doesn't have a lot of recursion 50k ought to be no problem at all. I think the default on win32 (-Wl,--stack) is 2MB, which of course not all of which would be available but is still >> 50k. So I guess it just depends on how much time you want to spend making this "technically correct" in the face extremely large files, which would seem pretty rare to me. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
