Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: David Cheng CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] why no malloc?
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, David Cheng wrote:
> Dear Sir:
>
> Upon examining the pcre_dfa_exec.c, I couldn't figure out why the
> stateblock * never used malloc to allocate memory for all the *_states.
> Could you please educate me on how it avoids memory corruption?
It uses the working space passed as the 9th argument.