Fix obscure obstack bug

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 16 23:38:00 GMT 2001


DJ Delorie wrote:-

> 
> What about if the allocator actually *allocates* a larger chunk the
> first time?  In that case, you *would* want to use h->chunk_size.
> Perhaps the user-defined allocator must guarantee that h->chunk_size
> and the initial allocation agree?

I think it's counterintuitive if you allocate a size other than that
requested.

Note my patch only fixes the initial allocation - all subsequent
allocations are handled by different code in obstack.c that does not
have the bug; and does not use h->chunk_size after calling the
allocation routine.  So the patch is also making obstack.c internally
self-consistent.

Neil.



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