[PATCH v3] vfprintf-internal: Replace alloca with malloc.

[Joe Simmons-Talbott]

On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 01:07:58PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-05-17 12:41, Joe Simmons-Talbott wrote:
> > It seems to me that the code to grow the scratch buffer would be more
> > difficult to understand than calling malloc separately.
> 
> True, but in the normal case this means malloc will not be called (as the
> data will live in a small scratch buffer on the stack), and that's a win
> worth striving for.
> 

I've posted a new patch with my attempt at reusing the scratch_buffer.
[1]

Thanks,
Joe

[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-May/148232.html