Re: Memory leak

From: Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:54:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Memory leak
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On July 23, 2004 11:42 am, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Why do we need one extra byte? We do not. > Anyway, the question is if we should return to alloca() or not. I am > slightly in favor but don't feel very strongly about it. Perhaps we could try a combination of the two, to ensure that no script is terminated due to a PHP crash if allocating on the stack fails. By default we can use alloca() if that fails to allocate the memory, we could use emalloc() and set a flag free code indicating which free function should be used. Ilia

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