[LLVMdev] optimization assumes malloc return is non-null

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Sandro Magi wrote:
>>  This is safe even without "whole program" information.  I love the as-if
>>  rule ;-)
>
> No, that seems perfectly reasonable (assuming I understand the
> translation), but only because char is so small. This optimization
> seems reasonable when the object is of word size or smaller, as this
> may simply

We currently do this for mallocs that are 2048 bytes and less.

-Chris

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