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From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: use of alloca in function prologue
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In-Reply-To: <FGELLPDBIBNCBLEECDELOEGNGKAA.mlist@ml-solutions.co.uk>; from mlist@ml-solutions.co.uk on Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:59:16PM +0100
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On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:59:16PM +0100, Mike Lerwill wrote:
> When allocating a large amount function local variables the prologue uses
> alloca instead of simple stack allocation.

This only happens when configured for a windows target, as
that's what the ABI sez.

> Is there any way to work around this (I don't have alloca implemented)

Configure for a different target.


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