[PATCH] Remove some alloca uses

John Baldwin jhb@FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 20 20:27:19 GMT 2024


On 4/17/24 3:52 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
> A few spots (mostly in the parsers) use alloca to ensure that a string
> is terminated before passing it to a printf-like function (mostly
> 'error').  However, this isn't needed as the "%.*s" format can be used
> instead.
> 
> This patch makes this change.
> 
> In one spot the alloca is dead code and is simply removed.

Approved-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin



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