From 4dd9dee2e79c2ca6f277011b399e163c19273ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim=20R=C3=BChsen?= <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:48:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * src/utils.c (unique_name_1): Replace alloca by xmalloc

---
 src/utils.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/utils.c b/src/utils.c
index 9d78cadb..75eada17 100644
--- a/src/utils.c
+++ b/src/utils.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ unique_name_1 (const char *prefix)
 {
   int count = 1;
   int plen = strlen (prefix);
-  char *template = (char *)alloca (plen + 1 + 24);
+  char *template = xmalloc (plen + 1 + 24);
   char *template_tail = template + plen;
 
   memcpy (template, prefix, plen);
@@ -667,9 +667,9 @@ unique_name_1 (const char *prefix)
 
   do
     number_to_string (template_tail, count++);
-  while (file_exists_p (template, NULL));
+  while (file_exists_p (template, NULL) && count < 999999);
 
-  return xstrdup (template);
+  return template;
 }
 
 /* Return a unique file name, based on FILE.