Re: [PATCH] parser: preserve characters on heap in backquote parsing

[Ron Yorston <rmy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Herbert Xu wrote:
>Sorry, but this is not the only place where dash relies on alloca.
>So you're bound to run into this problem again if you have a script
>that attempts to push dash to use more than 8MB in places like this.

Sure, but the same problem existing in other places isn't a reason not
to fix it here.

>So I'm not going to accept this patch as alloca makes things a lot
>simpler in some cases.

Granted, I recall the simplification of the code that resulted from
the replacement of malloc by alloca in this case.  This patch retains
that simplicity.

Ron