[cfe-dev] gcc builtin_malloc not supported

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Oct 3 13:40:39 PDT 2013


On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 01:14:29PM -0700, reed kotler wrote:
> why is gcc's builtin_malloc not supported?

As I wrote earlier, because it doesn't make sense. It's a library
function. It will get almost always lowered to the library function and
in the few situation where the compiler can prove different, it is no
different from using alloca.

Joerg



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