[PD-dev] [PATCH] Replace getbytes calls by alloca whenever possible in mrpeach's packOSC.c

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

My first question is: what's the problem that you are trying to  
solve?  Are there specific bugs, or just a general improvement?

.hc

On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Julien 'Lta' BALLET wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As said in the title, i submit you a small patch to mrpeach's osc  
> code, to replace calls to getbytes by alloca calls in part of the  
> code that might get called in the soundcard callback.
>
> The considered memory sizes are quites small and then won't smash  
> the stack. This removes the need for memory deallocation and reduces  
> the page fault risk as well as the memory allocation time.
>
> This is kind of a naive patch, since i don't fully know yet the pd  
> codebase.
>
> Any comment would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Lta.
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