[PATH] XQuartz: Drop calls to alloca

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Nov 30 15:56:11 PST 2009


On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:45:01 +1100, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> Anyone have any objection to declaring xalloc/xfree dead -- at least in
> the server -- and moving to plain old malloc/calloc/strdup/.../free?

The only issue is back-porting patches to old X server versions; this
kind of giant pile of churn makes that harder. If no-one cares about
that issue, I'm up for reducing our arbitrary layers of useless abstraction.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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