/* Function declarations for libiberty.
- Copyright (C) 1997-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1997-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Note - certain prototypes declared in this header file are for
functions whoes implementation copyright does not belong to the
/* Save files used for communication between processes. */
#define PEX_SAVE_TEMPS 0x4
+/* Max number of alloca bytes per call before we must switch to malloc.
+
+ ?? Swiped from gnulib's regex_internal.h header. Is this actually
+ the case? This number seems arbitrary, though sane.
+
+ The OS usually guarantees only one guard page at the bottom of the stack,
+ and a page size can be as small as 4096 bytes. So we cannot safely
+ allocate anything larger than 4096 bytes. Also care for the possibility
+ of a few compiler-allocated temporary stack slots. */
+#define MAX_ALLOCA_SIZE 4032
+
/* Prepare to execute one or more programs, with standard output of
each program fed to standard input of the next.
FLAGS As above.
# define ASTRDUP(X) \
(__extension__ ({ const char *const libiberty_optr = (X); \
const unsigned long libiberty_len = strlen (libiberty_optr) + 1; \
- char *const libiberty_nptr = (char *const) alloca (libiberty_len); \
+ char *const libiberty_nptr = (char *) alloca (libiberty_len); \
(char *) memcpy (libiberty_nptr, libiberty_optr, libiberty_len); }))
#else
# define alloca(x) C_alloca(x)