[PATCH 2/2] Use obstack in ada_encode_1

Simon Marchi simark@simark.ca
Wed Oct 7 18:36:37 GMT 2020


On 2020-10-07 2:35 p.m., Tom Tromey wrote:
> Yeah, actually it is probably a better API to simply return a new
> string.  I avoided this since I wasn't sure about why the function is
> the way it is -- is it to avoid the difficulties of managing an
> allocation in C, or is it to avoid extra allocations?  But I looked at
> the callers and I think it will be fine.

I always wonder the same with these functions and I have no idea.

Simon


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