Re: [RFA] rs6000-nat.c fix for large symtabs.

[gkm at cygnus dot com (glen mccready)]

>On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 02:42:45PM -0700, glen mccready wrote:
>>
>>Some processes have more than 64 load segments; in the past gdb
>>would fail under these circumstances.  This patch should alleviate
>>that problem by expanding the buffer if the ld_info won't fit.
>
>Would it be feasible to do this with malloc/realloc instead of alloca in
>this case?  Otherwise you could be wasting a lot of stack space.

I was considering that, but that's why the alloca() and ldi pointer
are defined within the do-while scope; the space should be recovered
each time through the loop.

malloc/realloc would certainly be an alternative, though.

glen