From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 04:47:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (keycompare): call alloca(0) after each iteration
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-1_22c~111
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7417f884aff9d2da36c05eee562e1185ee6bb8f4;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(keycompare): call alloca(0) after each iteration
---

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 70b970ae95..c2d084499b 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -1684,8 +1684,12 @@ keycompare (const struct line *a, const struct line *b)
 
 	  diff = strcoll (copy_a, copy_b);
 
+	  /* Free copy_a and copy_b.  */
+	  alloca (0);
+
 	  if (diff)
 	    return key->reverse ? -diff : diff;
+
 	  continue;
 	}
 #endif