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Subject: Re: svn - but smaller?
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
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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