[Patch] Break the Demangle -> Support dependency

[Craig, Ben via llvm-commits]

I dislike how little malloc is called in the current code.  The current 
implementation puts many kilobytes of data on the stack. It's a bit 
stack overflow waiting to happen.


On 9/6/2016 3:23 PM, Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits wrote:
> On 6 September 2016 at 16:18, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:
>> Do we intend to make this demangler asynch signal safe, i.e. not call malloc
>> at all? If so, I vote keep the custom allocator. If not, I'd say nuke it.
> Is that a requirement for the demangler in libcxxabi? Note that as it
> is right now I think we would still call malloc in some cases (both
> mallloc_alloc and arena::allocate).
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
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