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Date:      Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:19:57 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
Cc:        Michael Ross <gmx@ross.cx>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, John Mehr <jcm@visi.com>
Subject:   Re: svn - but smaller?
Message-ID:  <1361726397.16937.4.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20130224063110.GA53348@icarus.home.lan>
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On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 22:31 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 
> Also, John, please consider using malloc(3) instead of heap-allocated
> buffers like file_buffer[6][] (196608 bytes) and command[] (32769
> bytes).  I'm referring to this: 

Why?  I absolutely do not understand why people are always objecting to
large stack-allocated arrays in userland code (sometimes with the
definition of "large" being as small as 2k for some folks).

-- Ian





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