Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmdeo!lenler!moria!bojsen
From: bojsen@moria.UUCP (Per Bojsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: AmigaGCC stack hogging
Message-ID: <1882f287.ARN1979@moria.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 91 14:55:51 GMT
Reply-To: bojsen@lenler.UUCP
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: IDUN-Soft Aps.
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This is a question to the people who ported GCC to the Amiga.  I don't know
if it has been discussed before, but here you are:

What is the precise reason for the large stack needs of GCC?  Is it the
alloca() call?  If this is the case, have you considered using the PD
alloca() by D.A. Gwyn, which comes with (Amiga) `gnused'?  This
implementation of alloca() uses malloc() to allocate memory from the heap
instead of on the stack.  Since the Amiga does not grow stacks automatically
at the moment it is better to allocate from the heap.

Another question regarding GCC: is the source for the Amiga port available?

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