Hi, another common (ab)use of malloc/free is the DEF worklist and stack used in streaming out. Since most of SCCs are small, we could easily use stack for them in majority of time.
Bootstrapped/regtested x86_64-linux, OK? * lto-streamer-out.c (DFS::sccstack): Turn into auto-vec; preallocate for 32 entries. (DFS::worklist_vec): Likewise. (DFS::DFS): Do not initialize sccstack and worklist. (DFS::~DFS): Do not release sccstack. Index: lto-streamer-out.c =================================================================== --- lto-streamer-out.c (revision 278464) +++ lto-streamer-out.c (working copy) @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ public: tree t; hashval_t hash; }; - vec<scc_entry> sccstack; + auto_vec<scc_entry, 32> sccstack; private: struct sccs @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ private: bool ref_p, bool this_ref_p); hash_map<tree, sccs *> sccstate; - vec<worklist> worklist_vec; + auto_vec<worklist, 32> worklist_vec; struct obstack sccstate_obstack; }; @@ -558,9 +558,7 @@ DFS::DFS (struct output_block *ob, tree bool single_p) { unsigned int next_dfs_num = 1; - sccstack.create (0); gcc_obstack_init (&sccstate_obstack); - worklist_vec = vNULL; DFS_write_tree (ob, NULL, expr, ref_p, this_ref_p); while (!worklist_vec.is_empty ()) { @@ -735,12 +733,10 @@ DFS::DFS (struct output_block *ob, tree from_state->low = MIN (cstate->dfsnum, from_state->low); worklist_vec.pop (); } - worklist_vec.release (); } DFS::~DFS () { - sccstack.release (); obstack_free (&sccstate_obstack, NULL); }