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On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:07:54AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2014, Ondrej Bilka wrote: > > > For libc there are better alternatives, I will add priority to malloca > > cleanup. As glibc code is now alloca are mostly > > trivial or following this pattern occuring about hundred times: > > I suggest doing such cleanup in a maximally conservative and incremental > way: One straightforward set of changes in this area would be to replace the alloca+extend_alloca usage in getaddrinfo code with straight malloc+free. I doubt if the performance improvement due to using alloca is in any way noticeable in those functions given that the major costs there would be file or network I/O. Siddhesh
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