Alan Modra <amo...@gmail.com> writes: > The alternative is to do as Paul suggested and make obstack_blank > accept a negative length argument, but that would > - kill >2G obstacks on 32-bit targets, > - lose the nice symmetry with other obstack functions, > and obstack_blank_fast is the right interface to use for shrinking.
It would reintroduce the nice symmetry that the *_fast functions are just optimisations of the non-fast functions (if you know that the obstack has enough space), without surprising behaviour change. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
